Attending meetings
Scrutiny Committee meetings are held in public, and you are welcome to attend.
Meeting dates and start times are on the calendar, are held at the Town Hall on St Aldate's, Oxford, and are livestreamed on our YouTube Channel.
On occasions the meeting will agree to consider an item in private and if this is the case you will be asked to leave. This happens infrequently and within very limited circumstances that you will see on the agenda and listed in the Council’s constitution.
The Scrutiny Committee may commission time-limited review groups that explore a particular topic or issue in detail over a series of meetings (a scrutiny inquiry).
Participating in meetings
You can address the Committee on any item on the agenda. Agendas are published 5 clear workings days in advance of a meeting. To speak on an agenda item, please email the Director of Law, Governance and Strategy (acscrutiny@oxford.gov.uk) by 5pm, three clear working days of the meeting with your name and contact details, the agenda item you wish to speak on and a draft of your address. You will have a maximum of five minutes to speak, and members of the Committee may ask you questions to clarify your address.
You can provide evidence to inform a current scrutiny inquiry either in writing or in person, with the agreement of the Chair, by emailing acscrutiny@oxford.gov.uk by 5pm, three working days of the meeting, including your name, contact details and topic of the review you wish to contribute to. You can also look out for ‘calls for evidence’ on our consultation pages.
You may be invited by the Committee to share your insights/expertise at a meeting. Similarly, there is no guarantee that your submission will be accepted by the Committee.
Details of future agenda items and current and planned scrutiny inquiries are set out in the Scrutiny work programme.
Meeting agenda
All agendas are available on our website.
You can register for alerts for agendas.
Upcoming agenda items
The Scrutiny work programme lists the items and topics that are due to come to the Scrutiny Committee and Standing Working Groups over the coming months, as well as current and planned scrutiny inquiries. See our Scrutiny Work Programme.
You can suggest a topic for inclusion in the Scrutiny work programme by completing and submitting our Work Programme Suggestion Form:
Work Programme Suggestion Form
Please note that the resources available to Scrutiny are limited so not all suggestions can be pursued. We will let you know if your suggestion has been included in the work programme.
Recording meetings
You are able to record meetings using your own equipment. To allow you to do this without disrupting the meeting we have set a filming and recording protocol which we would ask you to read.
