Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Overview and Scrutiny Committee
27 Nov 2025 - 18:30 to 21:32
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Meeting Details
MeetingDetails

Members are invited to a Meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee

to be held in the Deben Conference Room, East Suffolk House, Melton

on Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 6.30pm

 

This meeting will be broadcast to the public via the East Suffolk YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/live/5GFKlszW0Qw?feature=share

Open To The Public
1 Apologies for Absence and Substitutions
2 Declarations of Interest

Members and Officers are invited to make any declarations of interests, and the nature of that interest, that they may have in relation to items on the Agenda and are also reminded to make any declarations at any stage during the Meeting if it becomes apparent that this may be required when a particular item or issue is considered.

3 pdf Minutes (127Kb)
To confirm the Minutes of the Meeting held on 18 September 2025 as a correct record.
To receive and note the matters arising update sheet relating to the Committee meeting held on 18 September 2025. 
To receive and note the update report in relation to Committee recommendations.
7 Overview and Scrutiny Committee Work Programme
To receive any updates in relation to the Committee's Work Programme.
8 Exempt/Confidential Items

It is recommended that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.     

Exempt/Confidential
9 Further Review of East Suffolk Services Ltd.
  • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
  1. Further Review of East Suffolk Services Ltd
    • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
  2. Further Review of ESSL - UNISON Response
    • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Apologies
NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
Councillor Seamus Bennett  
Absent
NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

Officers present: Pip Alder (Democratic Services Officer), Chris Bing (Head of Legal and Democratic Services and Monitoring Officer), Kerry Blair (Strategic Director), Sarah Davis (Democratic Services Officer), Phil Harris (Head of Communications and Marketing)

 

Others present:  Pete Coley (Director - Development and Change ESSL),  Chris Dowsing (Director - Operations ESSL),  Ben Forwood (Senior Shop Steward ESSL), Andy Jarvis (ESSL Board Chair),  Rob Newell (Finance Director ESSL), Alex Porter (UNISON Regional Manager),  Kerry Rayner (UNISON Branch Secretary)