Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from the following HSP members:

Sharon Shoesmith, CYPSPB representative to HSP – substituted by Jeanette Karklin

Joanne McCartney AM

David Lammy MP

Councillor Bob Harris, HWBPB Representative to HSP

Paul Head, CoNEL (HSP Vice-Chair)

Markos Chrysostomou, HAVCO

Cmdr Simon O’Brien, Haringey Metropolitan Police

Symon Sentain, Bridge NDC

Linda Banton, Job centre Plus

Faiza Rizvi¸ HarCEN

Lauritz Hansen-Bay, HarCEN

Members must declare any personal and/or pecuniary interests with respect to agenda items and must not take part in any decision required with respect to these items.

Stanley Hui, HAVCO, declared that due to the close links between HAVCO and HarCEN, which was the subject of Agenda Item 5, wished to record a personal interest.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business (late items will be considered under agenda Item 12 below).

None.

To approve the minutes of the Extraordinary Haringey Strategic Partnership meeting held on 20 December 2006 and the special meeting on 15 January 2007.

The minutes of the previous meetings held on 20 December 2006 and 15 January 2007 were agreed by the Board, and signed by the Chair.

(George Martin and Michael Jones noted that they had been present at the meetings held on 20/12 and 15/1).

We considered a report which recommended the de-recognition of the existing arrangements for community empowerment in Haringey and the next steps in relation to putting in place new arrangements. Having noted that the organisation  affected by the proposals had been notified, we agreed that, as a next step  the existing funding would be used to develop the new arrangements for community empowerment in Haringey. It was also confirmed that HAVCO would be fully involved in developing the new arrangements and proposals would come back to us in due course.

It was noted that HAVCO had relinquished their involvement with HarCEN and were pleased to be involved in developing the new arrangements. It was also agreed the reference in the report at paragraph 6.7 which read ‘of the report to the new structure being finalised by the end of the current financial’ should be removed as the consultation exercise and the development of new proposals will take up to six months. In the light of this we agreed that for the intervening period, the Chair and Vice-Chair, in consultation with the Chair of HAVCO agree interim community representation to sit on the HSP Board.

RESOLVED

That the necessary amendment of paragraph 6.7 of the report be approved and -

(i)                 The Councils decision to withdraw grant funding from HarCEN from the 22 January and the appeal panel’s verdict to uphold the Councils decision be noted.

(ii)               In light of resolution (i) above, approval be granted to the de-recognition HarCEN from the HSP Board and from each of the Theme Boards.

(iii)             All future community empowerment representatives on the HSP and Theme Boards be nominated and elected through the new Community Empowerment (CE) structure.

(iv)              It be noted that discussions on the development of a new CE model with HAVCO were underway and that proposals would be submitted to the Board in due course.

(v)                That approval be granted to the delegation of authority to our Chair and Vice Chair to selecting interim community representatives in consultation with the Chair of HAVCO.

We received a presentation from the TPCT on the draft Life Expectancy Action Plan which had been drafted jointly between the TPCT and the Council. In conjunction with the presentation, we considered a report which summarised the trends and consultation findings together with the draft plan itself. Arising from our deliberations we noted that the emphasis on the overarching themes of life expectancy, would constitute the main remit for the Haringey Well-Being Partnership Board. We also noted that it had significant cross-cutting issues for the HSP and its other theme boards, as well as key agencies within the Borough who would be responsible for delivering certain aspects of the Action Plan. During a discussion on the Action Plan, concern was expressed about suicide being a significant contributor to early death in Haringey and to the need for more work to be done with General Practitioners’ to improve responsiveness to early symptoms of mental health problems and increase referral rates to mental health agencies. The role of housing was identified by the Board as being of major importance for the Action Plan and we accepted the need for improvements to the housing stock to be driven forward together with  improved standards of management. We asked that Housing issues be brought before the Board at our next meeting.

We also asked that the monitoring of life expectancy demographics by ethnicity be conducted in order to highlight variations that required to be addressed in future versions of the Action Plan.

For the sake of consistency we asked officers to ensure that the wording set out on pages 67 and 68 of the report corresponded to that contained in the children’s services plan.

RESOLVED

That approval be granted to the following:

(i)                 The adoption of the Life Expectancy Action Plan subject to revisions arising from the discussions and final agreement on the Local Area Agreement and Sustainable Community Strategy.

(ii)               The Well-Being Partnership Board being given responsibility for monitoring the implementation of the plan across the thematic partnerships.

(iii)             That member organisations note their roles in delivering the Plan, and actively engage in taking the work programme forward.

We noted the update on the draft following a full period of consultation with residents, businesses and other stakeholders across the Borough. We also noted that scorecards would be used to measure the progress on key parts of the Strategy and vision which would be agreed by the Board in due course. The Strategy as it stood was in line with the elements contained within the Local Area Agreements (LAA) by way of the Action Plan – the major part of the delivery mechanism for the LAA.

RESOLVED

That approval be granted to:

(i)                 The  adoption of the Sustainable Community Strategy

(ii)               Relevant officers developing the scorecard and action plans, involving relevant members of the HSP as necessary, and the scorecard and action plans being agreed at a later meeting of the HSP.

We received an update report which highlighted the final 13 stretch targets that had been submitted to and subsequently negotiated with the Government Officer for London, as well as the next steps for the implementation and delivery of the Agreement. We noted that NRF funding would be used to supplement the pump priming grants that would be achieved as part of the stretch targets. We also noted the importance of delivery of the Agreement in line with the Sustainable Community Strategy, including delivery plans and performance management frameworks for each of the Theme Boards responsible for LAA targets.

RESOLVED

That approval be granted to the following:

(i)                 The final draft of the LAA including the 13 stretch targets selected as set out in Appendix 1 of the Report before the Board.

(ii)               The next steps for the implementation and delivery of the LAA.

(iii)             The NRF contingency fund being used to supplement the pump priming grant in light of the increase in the number of stretch targets.

We received proposals for the indicative NRF and SSFC projects for 2007/8 as agreed by the thematic partnerships and noted that this also included allocation of the 2006/7 contingency funds. In terms of the indicative spending for 2007/8, we also noted various changes to the allocation of funding compared to the period 2006/7 which would affect the Better Places Partnership, Safer Communities Executive Board, Community Empowerment, and Neighbourhood Elements as set out in Appendix C of the report. We were advised that, under the provisions set out in the Local Area Agreement, new restrictions would be placed on funds within the LAA blocks.

RESOLVED

That approval be granted to the following:

(i)                 The current position across the programmes being noted.

(ii)               The outturn report 2006/07 and the projected under spend within the SSCF programme being carried forward into 2007/08.

(iii)             The programme of projects being put forward for approval as the indicative programme for 2007/08, as recommended by the Thematic Partnerships and  set out in Appendices A and D.

(iv)              The programme of projects designated in December 2005 and March 2006 as being within the top slice being endorsed.

A special meeting being held in May to sign off the second six month review of SSCF for submission to GOL on 1 June 2007, and it be noted that the end of year statement of grant use with internal audit opinion was also to be submitted to GOL by the same deadline.

The Board heard that following the findings of the recent HSP Review, a draft Action Plan had been produced. The Board discussed the main facets of the Review and Action Plan, noting that only broader based items would be considered by the Board in future, thereby avoiding detailed operational issues in favour of strategically driven priority issues. We agreed to the creation of a steering group for the HSP consisting of the Chair, the Vice-Chair, the Chief Executive of the TPCT, the Police Borough Commander, the Director of HAVCO, and Haringey’s Chief Executive. T

We noted the need for terms of references for all of the groups and theme boards to be clearly established and distributed and for housing and homelessness issues to feature prominently in the remit of various theme boards to underline its cross-cutting significance to partnership working.

RESOLVED

            That approval be granted to:

(i)                 The endorsement of the proposed Action Plan.

(ii)               Regular reports being submitted on the implementation of the Action Plan.

(iii)             The establishment of a steering group as detailed above to guide the implementation of the Action Plan.

RESOLVED

That the agreed minutes and summary of each of the thematic boards be noted.

The Chair wished to thank Mr Andrew Billaney, Chief Executive of Hornsey House Trust, who had announced his resignation from the post, for his contribution to the HSP, and for his work whilst at the Trust. The Board wished Mr Billaney well in his new job.

·        22 May 2007, 6pm

·        31 July 2007, 6pm

·        13 November 2007, 6pm

·        11 February 2008, 6pm

·        8 April 2008, 6pm

The following dates were noted by the Board

·                    22 May 2007, 6pm

·                    31 July 2007, 6pm

·                    13 November 2007, 6pm

·                    11 February 2008, 6pm

·                    8 April 2008, 6pm

Partners should submit proposed agenda items for the next main meeting of the HSP (22 May 2007) to Nicolas Mattis no later than noon on 13 April 2007.

The Board noted that partners wishing to put forward items for a future agenda were asked to contact Nicolas Mattis, Principal Committee Co-ordinator at: nicolas.mattis@haringey.gov.uk