Councillor Call for Action
Councillor Call for Action (
CCfA
) is an initiative to
help Councillors to resolve issues and problems on behalf of their
residents on a ward basis. Individual Councillors can refer matters
raised under
CCfA
,
but only as a last resort, with issues being raised at committee
only after other avenues have been exhausted. This means that only
those issues that would benefit from scrutiny consideration rise to
the surface for intervention at a formal committee level, while
most issues are best dealt with through other means.
CCfA
was
introduced as part of wider changes introduced to provide Overview
and Scrutiny with greater powers to work more closely with partners
and across organisational boundaries. It enables Councillors, as
the democratic representatives of their communities, to raise
issues that it has not been possible to resolve by other means.
The Council has produced a protocol setting the rules of
CCfA
in Cheshire
East and this can be found in part 5 of the Council’s
Constitution.
