Issue - meetings

A report (attached) and presentation by Stephanie Rowland, Haringey Council, and Pamela Pemberton, HAVCO.

(Agenda Item 6):

The BPP was given a joint presentation by HAVCO and the Haringey Voluntary Sector Development Team on behalf of the Haringey Compact Working Group. The presentation outlined why the BPP should use Haringey’s Compact highlighting some of its benefits in terms of contributing to, for example, achieving aims, developing Local Area Agreements and providing a platform for the BPP to consult and engage with local communities NRF. The BPP heard that there would be a 13 week consultation for the draft Compact with Haringey and invited Members to contribute to this consultation by 8 February 2006. The presentation concluded by inviting the BPP to take on the Compact challenge by becoming a Compact Champion.

After the presentation the BPP discussed how the Compact could be kept on the agenda for future BPP topic discussions and fed back to the HSP. It was highlighted that a Compact Health check would ensure its work was fed back via the appropriate channels thus keeping it on the agenda. There was a further short discussion on Compact’s continued work to improve the involvement of the private sector in its work and this was reflected in the Compact’s work plan.

The BPP agreed to the following recommendations:

·      BPP Partners to agree to consider the draft Compact agreement and to take the agreement to their individual management boards.

·      BPP to actively support and encourage the commitment to the “buy in” of Haringey’s Compact.

BPP to agree that the Compact will underpin the partnership work of all partners and the partnership board.