Select Committee reports
Select Committees are time-limited, task specific formal sub-committees of the Scrutiny Committee. They were appointed from time to time to carry out reviews on behalf of the Scrutiny Committee with the same powers as the main committee.
The last Select Committee finished its work in 2019. Since then, the council has changed the way it works. Instead of Select Committees, we now use Short Focused Inquiries, which are smaller, quicker and look at very specific subjects.
Below, you can find their final reports, grouped by what they were about:
Corporate
- Better Outcomes, Changing Lives, Adding Social Value April 2014 (PDF, 702.8 KB)
- Kent's European relationship -March 2014 (PDF, 4.0 MB)
- Procurement of construction contracts - July 2004 (PDF, 256.4 KB)
Adult social care
- Dementia - a new stage in life - September 2011 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Carers in Kent - December 2007 (PDF, 341.0 KB)
- Transition to a positive future - April 2007 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Residential care in Kent - December 2003 (PDF, 526.4 KB)
- Domiciliary care in Kent - March 2003 (PDF, 674.6 KB)
- Nursing home care in Kent - February 2002 (PDF, 392.5 KB)
- Loneliness and social isolation - March 2019 (PDF, 4.2 MB)
Children's social care and families
- Corporate parenting - December 2015 (PDF, 4.0 MB)
- The student journey - May 2012 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Kent children's future at key stage 2 - May 2012 (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Autistic spectrum disorder - March 2009 (PDF, 2.9 MB)
- PSHE and children's health - March 2007 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Home to school transport - June 2006 (PDF, 588.5 KB)
Community safety and crime
Culture and sport
- Provision of activities for young people in Kent - March 2009 (PDF, 2.8 MB)
- Arts and museums - February 2004 (PDF, 467.7 KB)
Education skills and employment
- Pupil Premium report - June 2018 (PDF, 6.3 MB)
- Grammar Schools and Social Mobility – June 2016 (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- The Kent apprenticeships report - March 2013 (PDF, 3.7 MB)
- Extended services report - September 2010 (PDF, 3.5 MB)
- Sport in schools - March 2005 (PDF, 481.1 KB)
- Vocational pathways 14-19 years - December 2003 (PDF, 576.0 KB)
- Early years: A springboard to success - January 2003 (PDF, 473.6 KB)
- A standard school year - April 2002 (PDF, 303.9 KB)
Environment
- Energy Security Select Committee report - March 2016 (PDF, 4.3 MB)
- Report on renewable energy - 2010 (PDF, 5.3 MB)
- Flood risk report - 2007 (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- Climate change - October 2006 (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Gypsy and traveller sites in Kent - March 2006 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Water and wastewater, particularly in Ashford - September 2005 (PDF, 878.2 KB)
Health and public health
- Accessing democracy - August 2008 (PDF, 402.9 KB)
- Tackling obesity - December 2006 (PDF, 732.5 KB)
- Financing of the health economy
- Drug use and misuse - Summer 2003 (PDF, 667.2 KB)
- Modernising hospital services in east Kent - Vol 1 and 2 - March 2002 (PDF, 127.1 KB)
Regeneration
- Affordable Housing Select Committee report - June 2020 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Regeneration of coastal towns - August 2005 (PDF, 430.6 KB)
Transport and highways
- Future of passenger rail services in Kent - November 2008 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Transport with a 25-30 year time line - April 2005 (PDF, 812.0 KB)
- South East England Regional Assembly - February 2003 (PDF, 645.7 KB)
- Channel Tunnel Rail Link domestic services - January 2003 (PDF, 419.1 KB)
- Bus Transportation and Public Subsidy - March 2017 (PDF, 3.1 MB)