Meeting Details

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

Information on the Local Government Association's Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.

To note the resolution of the City Council meeting appointing the Committee Chair and Members to serve on the Committee to the period ending with the Annual General Meeting of the City Council 2027.

Reform: Councillors Charlie Latchford and Nagu Penakacherla

Green: Councillors Ali Kazi and Ed Freshwater

Conservatives: Councillor Deirdre Alden (as Chair)

Labour: Councillor Majid Mahmood

Liberal Democrats: Councillor Mumtaz Hussain

Better Birmingham Independents: Councillor Shaukat Mahmood

To elect a Deputy Chair, for the purpose of substitution for the Chair, if absent, for the period ending with the Annual City Council meeting in 2027.

Committee to note the terms of reference as outlined below.

Terms of Reference

As written in section B11.5 of part B of the City Council’s Constitution, the terms of reference for the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee are:

To fulfil the functions of an Overview and Scrutiny Committee as they relate to any policies, services and activities concerning adult social care, public health and leisure services and the Council’s health scrutiny function. This includes:

- Development of Health & Well Being Board and relationship with NHS and private providers

- Social care services and safeguarding for adults

- Public health services

- Healthy communities through sport and leisure services

- Discharge of the relevant overview and scrutiny role set out in the National Health Service Act 2006 as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the Health and Care Act 2022, including the appointment of Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committees with neighbouring authorities. The primary aim of health scrutiny is to act as a lever to improve the health of local communities and so that people can live healthy lives, by ensuring their needs are considered as an integral part of the commissioning, delivery and development of health services.

Committee to agree the membership of the Birmingham & Sandwell and Birmingham & Solihull JHOSCs for the period ending with the Annual Meeting of City Council in 2026.

To confirm the minutes of the 04 March 2026 meeting and note the record of discussion for the 15 April 2026 meeting.