Agenda

Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday, 10th December, 2025 7.00 pm

Venue: Woodside Room - George Meehan House, 294 High Road, N22 8JZ. View directions

Contact: Dominic O'Brien, Principal Scrutiny Officer, Email: dominic.obrien@haringey.gov.uk 

Items
No. Item

1.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note that this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method. Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting. Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on. 

 

By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

2.

Apologies for Absence

3.

Urgent Business

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with at item 9 below).

4.

Declarations of Interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

5.

Deputations/Petitions/Presentations/Questions

To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, paragraph 29 of the Council’s constitution.

6.

Minutes of Scrutiny Panel meetings pdf icon PDF 318 KB

To receive and note the minutes of joint meetings between the Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel and the Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Panel on the subject of the Council’s Transitions Programme. These meetings were held on:

-       10th June 2025

-       28th May 2024

Additional documents:

7.

Finance Update - Q2 2025/26 pdf icon PDF 286 KB

To consider the report on the Council’s financial position at the end of Quarter 2 of 2025/26.

 

The report included with this item was first published as part of the agenda papers for the Cabinet meeting on 9th December 2025.

Additional documents:

8.

Previously approved savings

To receive an update on progress against savings under the remit of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee that were approved in previous years but are being implemented during the forthcoming MTFS period.

 

Report to follow.

9.

New Items of Urgent Business

10.

Work Programme Update pdf icon PDF 321 KB

To note the current 2025/26 work programme for the Committee and to propose any amendments as required.

Additional documents:

11.

Dates of future meetings

  • Mon 19th Jan 2026 (7pm)
  • Thurs 12th Feb 2026 (7pm)
  • Wed 11th Mar 2026 (7pm)