Suggest a topic for a scrutiny review 2025

We asked

Barnet Councillors asked the local community to put forward suggestions for topics that could be considered at Scrutiny Committees and by task and finish groups over the year ahead.

You said

We received a total of 48 responses from the online survey and 50 from other sources making a total of 98.

There were a wide range of topics suggested including youth services, mental health and wellbeing of young people, street cleaning, environmental crime, waste services, housing, road maintenance and improving local health services.

We did

The topics were collated by the Scrutiny Team who undertook further research to determine if each issue was suitable for a report to a committee, a task and finish group review or another course of action. It was also important to determine if outcomes and improvements to services were likely to be achieved by scrutinising the issue.

A long list of all the topics was considered by Scrutiny Councillors at a special session on work programming. This resulted in a short list of topics for final decision.

The Committee/Sub-Committee work programmes and task and finish group topics were agreed at the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 12 June 2025. Details of the shortlisting process and agreed topics can be reviewed here: Agenda for Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Thursday 12th June, 2025, 7.00 pm At the meeting, local Councillors expressed their thanks to all residents and community groups who had responded to their request for topics.

The work programmes 2025-26 for the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the Adults and Health and Children and Education Sub-Committees can be viewed here: Browse Committee Work Programmes (moderngov.co.uk)