Issue - meetings

The press and public will be excluded from the meeting for consideration  of the following  item as they contain exempt information  as defined  in section 100a  of the local government act  1972 (as amended by section 12A of the local government act 1985) paragraphs 1&2&3 namely information relating to an individual  and information likely to reveal  the identity of an individual. Or information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person(including the authority holding that information).

The chair, had received legal advice from the deputy monitoring officer  before the start of the meeting advising that the report on  screening  written by the  Independent member  of the  committee  would be suitable to be considered in the open  part of the meeting  as the information would not make any person identifiable.  The Committee agreed to move this report to the open part of the meeting and for it to be published on the council’s website.