Prior to last summer and the subsequent coup at County Hall the overview and scrutiny functions necessary to democratic forms of modernised local government seemed to work quite well.
The functions on the IW Council are spread between 4 Policy Commissions and the single Scrutiny Committee. Prior to last summer the Policy Commissions had delivered in two years 14 so-called 'blue papers' suggesting policy changes to the Council leadership, and the Scrutiny Committee had delivered 8 enquiry Reports, with 2 more almost complete.
However, since the coup last September the Policy Commissions have delivered just 5 'blue papers' and the Scrutiny Committee just 2 Reports on new enquiries.
Clearly effective overview and scrutiny has been reduced in the last of the 3 years of this Council.
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