Agenda

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the Community Select Committee held on Wednesday 4 February 2026.

The Community Select Committee, sitting as the Council’s Crime and Disorder Committee is to receive a presentation form the Police on community safety matters that they have been engaged in over the past year. As well as the Police, the Chair of the SoSafe Partnership, SBC Chief Executive, Tom Pike; Executive Portfolio Holder for Stronger Communities, Cllr Tom Plater and the Council’s Head of Advice & Support, Sarah Pateman will be in attendance.

To receive the Cabinet Member response to the Community Select Committee’s Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Scrutiny Review report and recommendations.

To receive an update on the delivery of the 2025-26 Work Programme and potential options for consideration for the Committee’s 2026-27 Work Programme.

To consider any Part I business accepted by the Chair as urgent

To consider the following motions:

1. That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the ground that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs 1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

2. That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent