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Blackpool Council
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Municipal Building
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Blackpool
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Saturday 10am-1pm

Customer First Telephone Line
8.30am-5.15pm Monday to Friday
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Scrutiny

Scrutiny (sometimes called ‘overview and scrutiny’) is a process whereby councillors who are not the Council’s Executive, can play a powerful and influential role in the shaping of policy and decisions that will have a real benefit on behalf of the community they represent.

The process involves scrutiny committees monitoring performance, reviewing and evaluating services, questioning decisions and plans made by the Council’s Executive, listening to the concerns of local people, and where appropriate, making recommendations for action and change. The Council has produced a scrutiny handbook (see link below) which explains the process in more detail.  A Health Scrutiny Handbook is also available.

In Blackpool, there are three overview and scrutiny committees which are as follows: Each year, the Council produces a Scrutiny Annual Report which sets out the work of the committees over the previous year and the impact that scrutiny has had on local services – please click here to access the Report.

Your views on local services

To scrutinise local services properly the members of the scrutiny committees need to know what issues concern you as a resident of Blackpool.

If you think that a particular topic or service should be scrutinised, or you have input or an idea in relation to a current scrutiny, please contact the Scrutiny Support Team (see contact details to the right of this page).

You can view information on other useful websites by clicking on one of the links below.

Centre for Public Scrutiny Website
Department for Communities and Local Government
Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA) Website  
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