Councillor Joe Carter
Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
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Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday, 10th December, 2025 4.30 pm
The Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee are scheduled to meet on 10 December 2025 to discuss the mid-year wellbeing assessment for 2025/26, as well as committee business. The main focus of the meeting will be a pre-decision scrutiny of the council's mid-year performance assessment before it is considered by the cabinet. The committee will also review correspondence between the committee and the cabinet from June 2025 to November 2025.
Council - Thursday, 27th November, 2025 4.30 pm
The Cardiff Council was scheduled to meet on Thursday, 27 November 2025, to discuss a range of issues, including the submission of the Replacement Local Development Plan for independent examination, the Treasury Management Mid-Year Report, and a proposed visitor levy. Councillors were also expected to discuss a notice of motion regarding funding from the UK and Welsh governments.
Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday, 12th November, 2025 4.30 pm
The Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee met to discuss the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Annual Progress Report, a sickness absence update, and the month six budget for 2025/26, with a focus on pre-decision scrutiny. Councillors scrutinised progress against equality objectives, questioned sickness absence management, and examined budget performance and savings targets. The committee agreed to send letters to the relevant cabinet members to request further information on several topics.
Council - Thursday, 23rd October, 2025 4.30 pm
The Cardiff Council meeting on 23 October 2025 addressed a range of issues, including the approval of the Local Authority Social Services Annual Report 2024/2025, and the 9th Cardiff Local Development Plan Annual Report. Councillors also discussed the Statement of Accounts 2024/2025, and the Standards and Ethics Annual Report. A key debate emerged around a proposed surcharge for oversized vehicles, framed as an environmental measure but criticised as a regressive tax.
Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday, 8th October, 2025 4.30 pm
The Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee met to discuss the Cardiff Public Services Board's annual report, an internal change programme, and the procurement of a new financial system. The committee agreed to write to the Cabinet Member for Finance, Modernisation and Performance, Councillor Chris Weaver, to convey their observations and recommendations.
Decisions from Meetings
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Corporate Risk Register - Mid Year Review 2024/25
From: Cabinet - Thursday, 12th December, 2024 2.00 pm - December 12, 2024
The report will inform the Cabinet of the key risks facing the Council. The Cabinet will have last sighted the Corporate Risk Register (CRR) at a Cabinet Meeting in September 2024 (this was the Q4 2023/24 update). Senior officers review the document quarterly and the Cabinet once every 6 months. Corporate Risk owners are at a Director level, and they each input to the review of this document.
Recommendations Approved
Minutes of Cabinet Meetings of 24 October and 21 November 2024
From: Cabinet - Thursday, 12th December, 2024 2.00 pm - December 12, 2024
Recommendations Approved
New Housing Partnership Approval
From: Cabinet - Thursday, 12th December, 2024 2.00 pm - December 12, 2024
At the Cabinet Meeting of the 17th November 2022 the Cabinet received a report outlining proposal for a second Cardiff Housing Partnership, it was resolved at that meeting that: • approval in principle be given to the implementation of a second Cardiff Housing Partnership Programme including the commencement of a procurement exercise to appoint a development partner. • Approval be given to the list of development sites currently proposed to be included within a second partnership programme and approval that more suitable sites can be added into the programme, subject to complying with financial parameters including viability assessments and working within the HRA Business plan. • authority be delegated to the Corporate Director for People and Communities in consultation with the Cabinet member for Housing and Communities, to manage all matters relating to the procurement process including agreeing the procurement route, agreeing the parameters and delivery model of a second partnership programme, agreeing the procurement documents, agreeing the evaluation criteria and the evaluation of the bids. • It be noted that a subsequent report will be presented to Cabinet following the conclusion of the procurement process seeking approval to appoint the preferred Bidder
Recommendations Approved
Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements 2027/28
From: Cabinet - Thursday, 12th December, 2024 2.00 pm - December 12, 2024
...the Council's draft Coordinated Admissions Scheme 2027/2028 was determined, establishing a formal process for school admission applications using a common application form and mandatory dates, ensuring applicants receive only one offer of admission to a maintained school.
Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Shared Regulatory Services - Delegation Of 'Special Procedures' (& Other Regulatory) Functions Introduced By The Public Health (Wales) Act 2017
From: Cabinet - Thursday, 12th December, 2024 2.00 pm - December 12, 2024
...to delegate executive functions related to smoke-free premises, special procedures licensing, and intimate piercing on children, as outlined in the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, to the Shared Regulatory Services Joint Committee, while noting the Licensing Committee's statutory responsibilities for special procedures hearings.
Recommendations Approved
Summary
Meetings Attended: 48
Average per Month: 2.1
Decisions Recorded: 19