Issue - meetings

The Committee will consider the update on the development of the Area Committee Plan and put forward comments/variations.  

The Chair advised that members of the Committee had been sent the draft Area Profile by email the previous week and that this was still being developed at present.

Members of the Committee were asked to send their comments with respect to this to officers as soon as possible.

A discussion about priorities for the area over the year to enable a plan to be drafted.

An outline was given of the intention to create Area Plans covering each Area Committee identifying a number of key priorities for the year to be reviewed annually. A timetable had been set for developing the plans, with raw data being collated at present to generate area profiles which would form the basis for area plans. This would include gathering local community intelligence and working with Area Committee chairs against five headings from the Council’s Rethinking Haringey Strategy.  A draft profile would then be considered at the September meeting. Concerns were raised about the potential for the area profile exercise to replicate information gathered for other work streams. It was advised that the intention would be to pull together information from existing sources including the annual needs assessment, from voluntary sector etc. It was emphasised that the main focus would however be on local people and officers deciding and agreeing the plan through collective agreement.

The importance of gaining the confidence of local people was agreed to ensure the Plan would be successful.

The action plan would be drafted from September to December including identifying monitoring arrangements with the intention for adoption from January. Members requested that the Action Plan be written in Plain English to ensure it was clear and easy to understand.