Issue - meetings

The Chief Executive outlined the procedure for the sixth occasion where the Council had a Haringey Debate.

The Cabinet Member for Children gave an introduction to Item 10 - Progress report – Response to the Outstanding for All – Commission’s Final report and also highlighted the contents of the circulated report.

The Mayor advised of a TABLED amendment to the recommendations in the circulated report from Cllr Wilson, to be seconded by Cllr Reece.

Councillor Wilson MOVED the following amendment and reserved his right to speak during the debate.  Councillor Reece seconded the amendment and also reserved her right to speak during the debate.

The amendment to the recommendations was as follows:-

Delete the struck through words and add the underlined words on page 6 of the report, recommendation, paragraph 2:

2. Recommendations

Overview and Scrutiny Panel Full Council is asked to:

• note the progress to date

·                        Call on Cabinet to accept all the recommendations in the final Outstanding for All commission report and implement them in full

·                       Request that Cabinet comes back to council in March 2014 with a progress report on the implementation of the Outstanding for All commission report recommendations

•           give comment and feedback in order to provide support and challenge.

The proposed amendment to the recommendations were put to the meeting and agreed nemine contradicente.

It was:

RESOLVED

That in respect of the Progress report – Response to the Outstanding for All – Commission’s Final report:

i.              that the progress to date be noted ;

ii.      that Cabinet be called upon  to accept all the recommendations in the final Outstanding for All Commission report and implement them in full; and

iii. that Cabinet be requested to report back to Full Council in March 2014 with a progress report  on the implementation of the Outstanding for All commission report recommendations.

The Mayor welcomed Dame Anna Hassan – Chair of the Outstanding for All : Haringey’s Education Commission, and also Jane Flynn - Head Teacher  to the Council meeting .

The Cabinet Member for Children introduced the debate topic. 

Dame Anna Hassan & and Jane Flynn each then addressed the meeting for a period of 5 minutes.

Following their personal addresses, the Mayor thanked both Dame Anna Hassan, and Jane Flynn for their addresses and they received a round of applause.

The Mayor then advised (at 21.33hrs) that give the lateness of the evening the debate time would be for 30 minutes and not the usual 45 minutes allowed for debates, with a maximum of 3 minutes speaking time for each speaker.

A 30 minute debate then took place, with contributions from Cllr Kober, Cllr Reece, Cllr Khan, Cllr Solomon, Cllr Egan, Cllr Strang, Cllr Vanier, Cllr Wilson and Cllr Meehan.

At the conclusion of the debate, the Mayor invited Councillor Waters to respond.

The Mayor thanked members for their participation.