Agenda and minutes

There were no declarations of interest.

RESOLVED that the decision record of the meeting held on 12^th April 2016 be signed as a correct record.

The Executive Board Member, the Authority’s Anti-Poverty Champion, considered a report on the establishment of a Tackling Poverty Advisory Panel.

The Policy & Resources Scrutiny Committee in February 2015 had established a Focus Group which had suggested that a Tackling Poverty Advisory Panel should be established to provide important support to the Executive Board Member and would be tasked with overseeing and monitoring the Council’s Tackling Poverty Action Plan, overarching policy and wider tackling poverty agenda.

The report outlined the proposed objectives of the Panel and suggested membership.

The Executive Board Member in supporting the suggestion made by the Focus Group stressed that the Advisory Panel should engage with internal and external partners to ensure that the Group set targets and actions which would lead to changes and  visible results.

RESOLVED

1.     to establishing a cross party elected member Tackling Poverty Advisory Panel to set actions, support, and monitor the Council’s work on Tackling Poverty.

2.     That membership of the Advisory Panel be agreed as follows:-

Executive Board Member with responsibility for Tackling Poverty together with

2 Plaid Cymru representatives: Cllr. J Eirwyn Williams & Cllr. Alun Lenny

2 Independent Group representatives: Cllr. Hugh Richards & Cllr. Wyn Evans

2 Labour representatives: Cllr. Deryk Cundy & Cllr. Jan Williams