Agenda

Budget (Strategy & Engagement), Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 27th November, 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 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 pdf icon PDF 406 KB

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting.

7.

Minutes of Scrutiny Panel meetings pdf icon PDF 172 KB

To receive and note the minutes of the following Scrutiny Panels and to approve any recommendations contained within:

  • 9th September 2025 – Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Panel
  • 15th September 2025 – Culture, Community Safety & Environment Scrutiny Panel
  • 22nd September 2025 – Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel
  • 23rd September 2025 – Housing, Planning & Development Scrutiny Panel

 

 

 

 

Additional documents:

8.

Scrutiny of 2026/27 Draft Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy 2026/2031 pdf icon PDF 266 KB

To consider and make recommendations to Cabinet on the draft budget 2026/27 and the Medium Term Financial Strategy 2026/2031.

 

This item will be considered in two parts:

 

a)    To consider the proposals presented in the report and appendices that relate specifically to the remit of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

b)    To consider the overall approach to the Council’s draft Budget and MTFS report, including the measures being taken to address the budget gap.

 

Additional documents:

9.

Scoping Documents - Scrutiny Reviews pdf icon PDF 510 KB

To consider and approve the scoping documents and terms of reference for the following Scrutiny Reviews:

-          Communications with Residents (Adult Social Care)

 

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.

New Items of Urgent Business

12.

Future meetings

  • Wed 10th Dec 2025 (7pm)
  • Mon 19th Jan 2026 (7pm)
  • Thurs 12th Feb 2026 (7pm)
  • Wed 11th Mar 2026 (7pm)