To approve the Corporate Enforcement Policy following a recommendation from Overview and Scrutiny Committee. 

1.       That the Corporate Enforcement Policy be APPROVED.

2.       That the Head of Corporate Services, in consultation with the Counter Fraud Unit Manager, the Borough Solicitor and the Lead Member for Corporate Governance, be authorised to approve future minor amendments.  

50.1          The Chair welcomed the Manager of the Counter Fraud Unit to the meeting and in presenting the report, circulated at Pages No. 13-20 which detailed the policy, she explained that it was relatively legislative but was an overarching policy that had been prepared in partnership with One Legal to deliver a prosecution policy. The policy did not go into great detail with regard to each service area as they would all retain their own specific enforcement policies, however, if a member of the public was looking at what the Council could enforce, this explanatory document would cover this and outline the areas where the Council could undertake enforcement action, how it did that and what tests it applied when taking such action.

50.2          Upon being put to the vote, it was