Issue - meetings

Report of the Haringey Chief Executive’s Policy, Partnership and Consultation Team (to follow).

(Agenda Item 5):

The CYPSPB was given an outline of the process for renewing Haringey’s Community Strategy. Drawn from a recent conference to HSP partners, the Board heard about the broad priority areas that partners had identified. Further consultation involving CYPSPB partners would take on 11 September 2006. It was proposed that the CYPSPB put forward priorities, issues, and proposals for activity as part of its consultation submission.  It was highlighted that the Changing Lives current 20 priority areas would form a foundation for renewing the Community Strategy. It also heard that the Community Strategy must have a corporate outlook to it rather than focussing on subjects entirely separate from cross cutting issues.

The CYPSPB heard what the objectives of the Local Area Agreement (LAA) were and what the four priority areas (known as “blocks”) were – one of which included Children and Young People which focuses on the five outcomes of the Every Child Matters framework. There was a brief outline on the three aspects to LAAs, namely mandatory outcomes, the reward element, and enabling measures. The Board heard that the timescales for considering the contents of the priority block was short (30 September 2006) which posed a constraint to the ability to submit a draft. However, it was established that the publication of the final Changing Lives document would act as a major foundation for the draft LAA report. It was felt that a working group of partners would be best able to facilitate the development of the report.

RESOLVED

(i)                 That the Board agreed to discuss the Community Strategy at the next meeting of the CYPSPB after a paper is produced to focus on cross cutting links and stimulate ideas for further discussion.

(ii)               That Paul Head, Yolande Burgess, and a representative from the Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust, and a representative from Haringey Council form a working group to formulate the LAA report ahead of the initial deadline for an initial draft of 30 September 2006.