Overview and Scrutiny
Library of completed Overview and Scrutiny reviews
This page provides the full range of Scrutiny reviews that have been undertaken by either Scrutiny Panels or Scrutiny Working Groups.
2005/2006
2006/2007
- Public engagement and communications
- Best value review
- Tree policy
- Allotments (water charges)
- Street scene
- Leisure services
- Homelessness (rough sleepers) task and finish group
- Community safety (evaluation of dispersal orders)
2007/2008
2008/2009
- Councillor Call for Action
- Billing Waste Water Working Group
- Historic Buildings Task and Finish Group
- Contaminated Water task and finish group - phase one
- Contaminated Water task and finish group - phase two
- West Northants Development Corporation (WNDC) and partnership working with Northampton Borough Council (NBC)
- Evaluation of Overview and Scrutiny
- Proposed Post Office Closures
- Customer Services
2009/2010
- West Northants Emergent Joint Core Strategy
- Concessionary Fares
- More Facilities for Older Children
- Community Centres This scrutiny review was shortlisted for a Centre for Public Scrutiny Good Scrutiny Award. As part of the shortlist process, a video was produced. The judges thought that this work, which facilitated the transfer of a large number of community facilities from the council to community control, demonstrated the contribution that scrutiny can make to implementing a key Government policy around community asset transfer successfully at local level.
2010/2011
- Cost of Consultants
- Sheltered Housing and Housing Options for Older People
- Absence Management
- Northamptonshire Alcohol Strategy
- Pre-Scrutiny of Environmental Services Procurement
- Leisure Trust Implementation
- Neighbourhood Model
- Lease that Northampton Borough Council has With Northampton Town Football Club, the Contractual Arrangements between Northampton Town Football Club and the Rugby and Northampton Athletics Club
- Commissioning Framework for the Voluntary and Community Sector
2011/2012
2012/2013
- Customer Services
- Evaluation of Overview and Scrutiny (2012)
- Serious Acquisitive Crime, Violent Crime and Community Safety
2013/2014
2014/2015
- Management and Regulation of Private Sector Housing (including HIMOs)
- Impact of the Welfare Reform Act
- Interpersonal Violence
- Poverty in the Town
- Keep Northampton Tidy
- Parking
- Tree Maintenance
2015/2016
- Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour on the Town
- Health Check of the Local Economy
- Effectiveness of the Enforcement Policies in respect of Taxis and Private Hire
- NBC Owned Street Lighting
2016/2017
- Museum Trust (pre decision scrutiny)
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- Homelessness (Pre-Decision Scrutiny)
- Emissions Strategy (Action Plan
2017/2018
- Cemeteries
- Culture and Tourism
- Dementia Friendly Town
- Reprovision of the Environmental Services Contract
2018/2019
- Homelessness and Rough Sleepers
- The Impact of the Move of the University
- Northampton Post Unitary
- Adult Social Care Facilities
- Evaluation of Overview and Scrutiny Reports