Issue - meetings

There had been an email comment sent regarding various issues in secondary schools regarding the loss of school’s officers. This included breaking down of intelligence barriers, responsiveness to issues arising within schools.

Reassurance was sought regarding mitigation of the loss.  Consideration needed to be given regarding how developments could take place working between the Council, the Police, schools to use those CYP officers as productively as possible. Feedback was needed on this.

The borough did not have sufficient resources to reimagine the support.

Secondary school headteachers raised an issue about youth provision. An area of focus was the timing of 3:30pm to 700 pm. It was difficult to engage with schools. They were individualistic and inward-looking. They appeared to assume that young people knew about various programs in place such as youth activity. It may be useful to have a discussion with the youth service and youth participation steered by children's services with the head teachers to have a more open discussion about having stronger relationships with young people. It would be useful to bring the Police into the discussion as well.

The youth service had some good outreach workers. The Haringey Learning Partnership did outreach work. There was also a Youth Justice Service.

A forum could be organised alongside head teachers to talk about how the Police and youth and external agencies could work more effectively with them.

There appeared to be an overlap with child safeguarding partnership arrangements in terms of duplication of governance and oversight.

A suggestion was made for safeguarding boards, children, adults, health and wellbeing, community safety outlets to come together on overall strategic issues.

Police could be consulted on their immediate plans and progress could be reported back to a future meeting.

In relation to Prevent and Protect, a meeting was to be held on the implications of Martyn’s Law and similar regulations. This would need to come back to the meeting as a discussion about governance and oversight.

There would be legislation in relation to venues venue hire. The progress of this would be reported back to the meeting.  

There were no items of urgent business.