Agenda and minutes
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Webcasting Please note: This meeting may be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's internet site - at the start of the meeting the Chair will confirm if all or part of the meeting is being filmed. The images and sound recording may be used for training purposes within the Council.
Generally the public seating areas are not filmed. However, 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 for webcasting and/or training purposes.
If you have any queries regarding this, please contact the Committee Clerk at the meeting.
Additional documents: Minutes: Noted. |
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Apologies for Absence Additional documents: Minutes: None. |
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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). Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair advised that there was an item of urgent business to be discussed – the Annual Report. |
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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 Additional documents: Minutes: None. |
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Deputations/Petitions/Presentations/Questions To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, paragraph 29 of the Council’s constitution. Additional documents: Minutes: None. |
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CHILDREN MISSING FROM HOME AND CARE - SCRUTINY REVIEW UPDATE To note the update on the Children Missing from Home and Care Scrutiny Review. Additional documents: Minutes: Elaine Redding - Assistant Director, Children & Families – introduced the report as set out.
There were some remaining challenges, the main one being that there were still some placements 20 miles out of Haringey as there were not enough in-house foster carers.
The service aims to recruit 30 new foster carers this year.
New legislation means that children on remand were now considered to be ‘Looked After Children’ – this also had an impact on the Local Authority.
The following was provided in response to questions from the Committee: · With regards to placing children outside of the borough, work was being carried out to raise awareness and meet the diverse needs of Haringey. · Once a missing child had been found and brought back into the system, interviews were carried out to help understand the triggers and what could be done to support the child in the future. · All foster carers had a link social worker who was in place to help the carers.
AGREED: An update on Troubled Families would be provided to the relevant Scrutiny Panel in 2014/15.
The Chair thanked Elaine for attending. |
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FINAL REPORT - Under Occupation of Social Housing (bedroom tax) To agree the recommendations of the report of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee.
TO FOLLOW Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair introduced the report and recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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FINAL REPORT - Two Year Old Early Entitlement To agree the recommendations of the report of the Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel.
Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Newton introduced the report and recommendations as set out. He informed the Committee that a number of the recommendations had already been taken on board by the Director of Children’s Services.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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FINAL REPORT - Mental Health and Community Safety To agree the recommendations of the report of the Communities Scrutiny Panel.
Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Winskill introduced the report and recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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FINAL REPORT - Mental Health and Accommodation To agree the recommendations of the report of the Adults and Health Scrutiny Panel.
TO FOLLOW Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Adamou introduced the report and recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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FINAL REPORT - Mental and Physical Health To agree the recommendations of the report of the Adults and Health Scrutiny Panel.
TO FOLLOW Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor Adamou introduced the report and recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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FINAL REPORT - Strategic Enforcement To agree the recommendations of the report of the Environment and Housing Scrutiny Panel.
TO FOLLOW Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor McNamara introduced the report and recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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FINAL REPORT - Community Engagement with Planning To agree the recommendations of the report of the Environment and Housing Scrutiny Panel.
TO FOLLOW Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor McNamara introduced the report and recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED to agree the recommendations and refer to Cabinet. |
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SCRUTINY PANELS REPORT BACK To note the minutes and agree any recommendations of the Scrutiny Panels:
Children & Young People Scrutiny Panel 27 February 2014
Environment & Housing Scrutiny Panel 29 November 2013 2 December 2013 28 January 2014 24 February 2014
Communities Scrutiny Panel 31 March 2014 - TO FOLLOW Additional documents:
Minutes: NOTED the minutes of the Scrutiny Panel meetings. |
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Reflections on the past year and 2014/15 work programme ideas Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Winskill made the following comments: · The huge workload of the Panels over the past year, had been achieved with fewer Scrutiny Officers than before and noted that the high workload needed to be addressed. · Budget Scrutiny needed to be revisited to ensure that it added value to the budget setting process. · The value which OSC can add needed to be recognised more widely.
Councillor McNamara requested that at the next meeting between OSC and Cabinet that the scrutiny model be looked at, with a comparison to other boroughs – how many panels, how many members etc.
Members of the Committee placed their thanks on record to Martin Bradford, Rob Mack and Melanie Ponomarenko for their work over the past year.
AGREED: Scrutiny Officers would revisit an earlier piece of work they had done on scrutiny models across London. |
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Feedback from Chairs of Area Committees Additional documents: Minutes: None. |
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New Items of Urgent Business Annual Report 2013/14 – discussion led by Councillor McNamara. Additional documents: Minutes: Annual Report – it was suggested that each Scrutiny Panel Chair provide a short summary of the work of each Panel. |
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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 23 January 2014.
To note the minutes of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee meeting held at the Laurels on 27 January 2014. Additional documents: Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 23 January 2014 were approved as a correct record.
NOTED the minutes from the meeting with the Laurels held on 27 January 2014.
AGREED: To revisit the Laurels in the new Municipal Year.
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Future meetings Additional documents: Minutes: NOTED the dates of future meetings:
Thursday 19 June 2014 Thursday 2 October 2014 Thursday 27 November 2014 Thursday 18 December 2014 (budget) Thursday 22 January 2015 Thursday 26 March 2015 |
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SCRUTINY COMMITTEE ACTIONS REQUESTED To note the actions completed since the last meeting. Additional documents: Minutes: Noted. |