Decision details

Key Decision identified as Part B of the Final Commission and General Update in the Notice of Key Decisions published on 28 June 2019.

Councillor L D Carter, Cabinet Member for Finance, Commercial Services & the Borough Economy presented the report of the Commissioning Body in conjunction with the reports submitted at minute number CAB-13 and CAB-14.

The report detailed how the Commissioning Body began working with the local Survivors Committee in Telford earlier in 2019 to start discussions in relation to the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference. This early engagement with the Survivors Committee had been a priority, to help understand the main issues to be considered when designing the Terms of Reference. The Commissioning Body, however, recognised that wider consultation on the Terms of Reference was important to ensure that all victims and survivors, stakeholders and members of the public, had an opportunity to comment on the scope of the Inquiry’s work, and to ensure that the final Terms of Reference were as informed as possible.  Details of the consultation that had taken place in a time period of just over three weeks (ending on 5 July 2019) were included the report along with the outcome and the proposed Terms of Reference.

The comments of the CSE Inquiry Member Advisory Group in relation to the Terms of Reference had been circulated and all comments had been incorporated into a revised draft which had also been circulated.

RESOLVED that the Terms of Reference be noted