Issue - meetings

The Board received a report outlining proposed amendments to the HSP’s Terms of Reference.

The amendments were proposed in order to reflect expectations placed on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP’s) following the publication of new Statutory Guidance and the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).

The adoption of the new HSP Code of Corporate Governance also required the Terms of Reference to be reviewed in order to make reference to the Community Link Forum and its role as the mechanism for providing representation from the Community and Voluntary Sector.

In order reflect that the Fire Service was included within the list of public bodies assessed under the CAA, a position on both the HSP and PMG had now been allocated to the organisation.

In addition to this the Mental Health Trust had renewed its membership of the HSP and the PMG had agreed that ‘Breakfast Meetings’ should be held with representatives from the Private Sector to facilitate its involvement with the Partnership.

There was agreement that the designation of ‘Councillors’ within the membership list should be moved from the heading ‘Voluntary and Community Sector’ to ‘Statutory and Core Agencies’ under ‘Haringey Council.’

It was noted that there were sometimes circumstances in which a deputy may need to be sent on more that two consecutive occasions. There was agreement that the wording in relation to this should be revised to state that it was unacceptable to give apologies for more than two consecutive meetings without a substitute being fielded.

RESOLVED:

That revised Terms of Reference, as presented within the report, be adopted, subject to the amendment set out above in relation to the use of substitutes at meetings.