Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Philip Slawther, Principal Committee Co-ordinator 

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.

Minutes:

The Chair referred Members present to item one on the agenda in respect of filming at the meeting and Members noted the information contained therein.

 

2.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Jhunjhunwala KanuPriya and Anita Jakhu.


Apologies for absence were also received from Andy Donald, Chief Executive of Haringey Council.

 

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 below).

Minutes:

None.

 

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

Minutes:

Cllr Pippa Connor declared an interest by virtue of her membership of the Royal College of Nursing.

 

Cllr Pippa Connor declared an interest by virtue of her sister working as a GP in Tottenham.

 

5.

Deputations/Petitions/Presentations/Questions

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

Minutes:

None.

 

6.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 328 KB

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 20th June 2022.

7.

Membership of Adults and Health Scrutiny Panel pdf icon PDF 168 KB

To formally appoint a new Member to the Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Cllr Bevan introduced the report for this item which recommended the formal appointment of Cllr Anna Abela to the Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel. This proposal was agreed by the Committee.

 

RESOLVED – That Cllr Anna Abela be appointed to the Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel.

 

8.

CABINET MEMBER QUESTIONS - The Leader of the Council

To receive a verbal update from the Leader of the Council on her priorities for the forthcoming year followed by a question and answer session.

Minutes:

Cllr Peray Ahmet, Leader of the Council, provided a summary of the key priorities for the Council’s new administration. She emphasised the need to get the basic functions of the Council to work well and to be responsive and effective. Examples of this included customer services, housing repairs, parking permits, bin collections and potholes.

 

In terms of themes, Cllr Ahmet highlighted co-production and engagement across services and specific projects as a central point of the Council’s administration. This would require a culture change in the organisation and the Council’s relationship with residents to enable deeper engagement, including with communities that are seldom heard.

 

Cllr Ahmet referred to the following specific priority areas:

·         Early years – including the need to improve health visiting.

·         Children & young people – including re-establishing a Haringey Youth Council and creating more apprenticeships.

·         Place-making – this involved creating a sense of place and improving those spaces. Improving infrastructure, health provision and building Haringey as a cultural destination would all be a part of this. 

·         Climate change – there was a need to be more ambitious with this agenda including through the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) which would be rolled out in August with exemptions for those who were most adversely affected. There would also be further work to insulate Council homes, to plant more trees and to co-design community gardens.

 

Cllr Ahmet then responded to questions from the Committee:

·         Cllr Connor asked what kind of governance structure would be put in place to support the Council’s co-production work and provide a set of principles that would be visible to residents. Cllr Ahmet said that there were pockets of good practice already and that the aim would be to incorporate this into work across the Council. She said that this would be as much about organisational culture change as about what could be written in a document. Communication channels such as social media would be needed to improve awareness of co-production with residents and to ensure that conversations with residents happened before projects/services were designed.

·         Asked by Cllr White for further details on how seldom heard communities would be engaged with, Cllr Ahmet said that access, including language barriers, was a key issue and so practical measures to overcome such barriers were needed as part of an overall community development approach. Maintaining relationships with two-way conversations on a long-term basis was also important and this could be supported through mechanisms such as a Youth Council. She added that getting the basics right with services, as mentioned earlier, also had a role in maintaining good relationships with local communities.

·         Cllr Simmons-Safo commented that links with key trusted influencers could be an effective way of building relationships with hard-to-reach communities and asked how the Council intended to do this. Cllr Ahmet agreed and said that this was an important part of knowing your local community and their needs. There was a piece of work ongoing which would help to build understanding of this while the new locality approach would  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

9.

Haringey Health Hub pdf icon PDF 2 MB

Report to follow.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Jonathan Gardner, Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs at Whittington Health, introduced the report for this item noting that the emphasis on integration in this project was reflected by the colleagues present from a range of organisations involved. These were:

·         Beverley Tarka - Director for Adults, Health and Communities, Haringey Council

·         Rachel Lissauer - North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB)

·         Dr Mahmoud Asgheddi – Hornsey Wood Green GP Practice

·         Faye Oliver, Communications and Engagement Project Lead, Whittington Health

·         Chandraroop Banerjee – Whittington Health

 

Jonathan Gardner explained that the integrated health and wellbeing hub would bring community health services, primary care services, Council services and voluntary services all into one place in the Wood Green Shopping City to tackle issues holistically. The various teams had been working together to join services with co-design from the workforce. Co-design had also been a crucial part of the consultation process as set out in the report. 

 

Jonathan Gardner explained that there was a hub in the east of the Borough at Lordship Lane, a hub in the west at Hornsey and so this project would bring services in the central area of the borough into a hub that was more easily accessible than the existing multiple service locations.

 

Rachel Lissauer, Director for Integration at NCL ICB, added that this fitted with the overall direction of travel as the aim was to make the navigation process easier for residents. Quite often when residents saw their GP, they needed more attention for matters that were not pure health issues such as housing or employment. There was therefore an opportunity to locate various different community services together with a joined-up offer in an accessible neighbourhood place. There was a challenging picture for the primary care workforce in Haringey, particularly with low numbers of GPs, and so it was important to be able to offer state of the art premises where people wanted to work.

 

Dr Mahmoud Asgheddi from Hornsey Wood Green GP Practice said that he and his colleagues were excited about the move and that there were limitations with their existing premises, such as with a lack of space given their recent increase in patient numbers since the pandemic. The project was therefore a good opportunity to work with Whittington Health and the Council and to better support patients with needs that went beyond medical issues and could be addressed in collaboration with other services.

 

Beverley Tarka, Director for Adults, Health and Communities, said that an important consideration was the wider determinants of health and the ability to for services to intervene at as early a stage as possible. Having services all in place would help to do this and to do so more holistically. This would include supporting roles such as social prescribing and local area co-ordinators.

 

Jonathan Gardner and colleagues then responded to questions from the Committee:

·         Asked by Cllr Bevan about the location of the site within the Shopping City, Jonathan Gardner confirmed that it would be on the ground  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.

10.

Work Programme Update pdf icon PDF 368 KB

To consider any additions or amendments to the Committee’s work programme for 2022/23.

Minutes:

Dominic O’Brien, Scrutiny Officer, advised that the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee had recently met with the Director for Public Health and the Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG) lead to discuss the forthcoming Scrutiny Review on VAWG prevention. Areas that were explored for scrutiny work included community-based prevention and work in schools, including by addressing attitudes from men and boys and providing help and advice for women and girls. Pilot projects in these areas were discussed but it was acknowledged that resources for these could be quite limited. A draft terms of reference for the Scrutiny Review would be developed with a view to holding evidence sessions in the autumn. Cllr Simmons-Safo suggested that Sistah Space, a Hackney-based organisation which provides specialist support to victims of domestic abuse in the African and Caribbean heritage community, could be invited to provide evidence as an example of work that Haringey could potentially learn from. (ACTION)

 

11.

Dates of future meetings

·         13th October 2022

·         28th November 2022

·         12th January 2023 (Your Council – budget proposals)

·         19th January 2023 (budget scrutiny)

·         30th March 2023

 

Minutes:

·         13th October 2022

·         28th November 2022

·         12th January 2023 (Your Council – budget proposals)

·         19th January 2023 (budget scrutiny)

·         30th March 2023