Agenda item - Consultations and surveys

52.1 OPC Chair Jack Hazelgrove  had contributed into the Lewes Road consultation in his ‘Bus Watch’ role. It was difficult to reach a consensus on this matter, for a general OPC reply, so each OPC member was encouraged to put their own views on the consultation portal attributed as individual OPC Members, before the 25 May deadline for reply.

52.2 Colin Vincent circulated his reply to the Local Account consultation and was reassured that retaining an ‘exceptional circumstances’ clause regarding those falling into ’moderate’ and ‘low’ eligibility criteria did remain in the final version of the document. He reported that it was not easy for a non-specialist to reply to the consultation as it appeared to be written by professionals for professionals. This would be fed back to the ASC and consultation portal officers (ACTION MvB)

52.3 Sport and Physical Activity consultation would be replied to by MB (ACTION MB)

52.4 The scrutiny officer reported that a number of OPC replies had been made to consultation portal surveys – these were valuable input into decision-making processes from older people’s perspectives and were well worth pursuing actively. (ACTION:All)