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Councillors who are in opposition groups tend to say more often than do councillors in majority groups that they do not spend enough time with officials. That is partly a result of the fact that they are in opposition and do not have the same access to officials as committee conveners do.
What may seem a little bit strange, because it is not in line with the relation between ministers and officials that we have been used to in Whitehall, is not a weakness.
The political discipline of that structure ensured that officials were committed to child-centred, joined-up thinking and to the promotion of integrated working.
My understanding is that the instrument gives officials powers to enter premises or vessels to find out information about how other officials have not been allowed to gain access to vessels or premises.