To consider the attached report on a review of the Torbay Strategic Partnership Membership and Governance.

The Partnership considered a report which advised that 2011/12 would be a year of change and transition for Local Strategic Partnerships.  This provided the Partnership with an opportunity to review the shape and purpose of the Partnership in Torbay.  The report highlighted the key changes which included the introduction of Health and Wellbeing Boards and Local Enterprise Partnerships, under the ten day rule the Partnership agreed that the number of Torbay Strategic Partnership (TSP) meetings be reduced from six to three per year and that three Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board meetings take their place.

The Partnership also discussed a proposed membership structure and a request for Brixham Town Council, English Riviera Tourism Company, the Probation Service and Torbay Link to become Members of the TSP.  Alan Denby advised the Partnership that the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) did not wish to be a member of the TSP and that a Private Sector representative should be sought.

Some Members requested that the membership remain at 14 representatives to ensure the Partnership remained strategic however observers would be welcomed.

The membership structure was agreed as: