The Committee is asked to note any apologies for absence and substitutions received from Members.

To confirm and sign as a correct record, the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee, held on Monday, 17 November 2025.

Councillors are invited to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Personal Interest, and the nature of it, in relation to any item on the agenda.

Subject to providing two working days’ notice, a Member of the Committee may ask the Chairman of the Committee a question on any matter in relation to which the Council has powers or duties which affect the Tendring District and which falls within the terms of reference of the Committee.

The Stakeholder Engagement Lead will be attending the Committee as a representative of the Managing Director of Konectbus. Their presence will provide members of the Committee with the opportunity to make enquiries, seek clarification, and engage directly on matters relating to local transport and community and mainstream links.

The report provides the Committee with an overview of grant funding opportunities available in the district, and update in respect of a future Council grant funding policy.

The Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) will formally come into being on 1 April 2026. The Chief Executive Designate (Tom Abell) of the Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) has been invited to attend the Committee’s meeting. His presence will provide members of the Committee with the opportunity to make enquiries, seek clarification, and engage directly on matters relating to local health and care priorities.

To enable the Committee to consider the recommendations made to it as set out in the final report from the Council’s Youth Provision of School Aged Children Task and Finish Group.

To provide an update on the Task and Finish work to date in respect of Joint Working with Town and Parish Councils and to recommend that the workstream be extended and refocussed in the context of forthcoming Devolution and Local Government Reorganisation.