Issue - meetings

For Cabinet to note:

1. Scrutiny Review of ‘Children Missing from Care and from Home’
2. Scrutiny Review of ‘Men’s Health: Getting to the Heart of the Matter’

Note by the Head of Local Democracy and Member Services

Part 4 Section G Paragraph 1.3 (vii) of the Constitution states that following endorsement by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, final reports and recommendations will be presented to the next available Cabinet meeting. The Cabinet will note the report and request a responding report from the Chief Executive or Chief Officer and Cabinet Member responsible. The request is to be available within six weeks of the request and will include a detailed tabulated implementation action plan.

Children Missing from Care and from Home

Cabinet received the review above, which had been commissioned in the light of a recommendation of a previous scrutiny review of Corporate Parenting, in response to concerns that were expressed regarding missing children.

Councillor Ejiofor advised that there the review had focussed on three categories of children who went missing from home: children in Haringey Council’s care; children in the care of other Local Authorities placed in Haringey and; children who went missing from home.  

In conclusion Councillor Ejiofor thanked members of the Corporate Parenting Committee for their assistance and commended the review’s recommendations for adoption.

The Cabinet Member for Children thanked members of the panel for the work that they had undertaken as part of the review.   

Men’s Health: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Cabinet received the review above, which had been commissioned to look at the health of men aged forty years and over living in the most deprived areas of the Borough.

Councillor David Winskill, Chair of the panel, noted that tackling health inequalities was a key for the Borough and that the survey conducted as part of the review provided a useful insight into attitudes of the men focussed on.

RESOLVED:

That the reviews into ‘Children Missing from Care and from Home’ and ‘Men’s Health: Getting to the Heart of the Matter’ be noted an, in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution, officers be requested to submit a Cabinet response, including a tabulated implementation action plan.