Issue - meetings

The Board received a presentation from the Community Link Forum (CLF) setting out it’s objectives and work to date.

It was noted that the CLF had been established as a means of improving the link between the Voluntary Sector and the Partnership. Following ratification of the CLF Agreement by the Haringey Strategic Partnership (HSP) in July 2007 work had been carried out by the organisation that culminated in the CLF Elections in April 2008.

The CLF was allocated four places on the HSP and each of the Thematic Boards, three of these being given to the elected CLF representatives and one to a representative from HAVCO.

The representatives elected to the Safer Communities Executive Board were as follows:

• Sue Brown
• Mohamed Maigag
• Nims Obunge

Following the presentation the Chair welcomed the CLF representatives to the meeting and noted that their inclusion within the Board provided a good opportunity to review the format of the meetings.

It was suggested that the new CLF representatives should consider whether there were any topics that they would particularly like to see discussed at the next Board meeting and feed these back to officers. There was agreement that the format of future meetings should be revised to allow the Board to concentrate on thorough discussion of specific issues.

The Chair requested that contact details of Board members be circulated with the minutes.

RESOLVED:

1. That the presentation be noted.

2. That suggestions for future agenda items be fed through to Community Safety Team.