Agenda and draft minutes

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE

Contact: Glenn Barnfield 

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113.

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.

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Minutes:

The Cabinet Member referred those present to agenda Item 1 as shown on the agenda in respect of filming at this meeting, and Members noted the information contained therein’.

114.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

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There were no apologies for absence.

115.

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 under item 6 below).

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There were no items of urgent business.

116.

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

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No declarations of interest were made.

117.

Report by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman into complaints against London Borough of Haringey pdf icon PDF 288 KB

To consider the report and recommendations by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman into complaints against London Borough of Haringey.      

 

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The Cabinet Member considered the findings of a report issued by the Local Government Ombudsman in response to complaints about Temporary Accommodation allocated and managed by Homes for Haringey (HfH) to a resident (Ms B). That report, at Appendix 1, was issued on 11th April 2019 and the Council had three months to consider its findings. The Council’s report, set out in the agenda pack at pages 1-9, was introduced by Denise Gandy, Executive Director of Housing Demand Homes for Haringey of HfH.

 

The Cabinet Member was being asked to, firstly, note the outcome of the Ombudsman’s investigation, secondly, note the content of the Council report presented to the Corporate Committee on 17th June 2019 and, thirdly, to agree and authorise the implementation of the actions proposed by HfH to address the non-compensatory aspects of the report.

 

The Cabinet Member was informed that on 17th June 2019, the Corporate Committee had:

·         accepted the Ombudsman’s recommendation that compensatory payments are made to Ms B;

·         retrospectively authorised officers to make the compensatory payments to Ms B; and

·         noted that further actions which have been put in place to comply with the Ombudsman’s recommendations along with the timescales.

 

The Cabinet Member noted the Council must take on board the lessons learnt from this case and accept the findings from the Ombudsman’s report. It should also ensure that, in accordance with the recommendations of the Corporate Committee, there is continued oversight of the further actions instructed by the Ombudsman through an internal audit, to report back to the Corporate Committee in six months’ time. 

 

The Cabinet Member was reassured that HfH were taking this matter seriously and would endeavour to do all it could to comply with the Ombudsman’s recommendations. 

 

RESOLVED

 

That the Cabinet Member for Housing and Estate Renewal:

1.    Notes the outcome of the Ombudsman’s investigation contained in his report issued on 11th April 2019.

2.    Notes the content of the report to the Corporate Committee meeting on 17th June 2019.

3.    Agrees and authorises the implementation of the actions proposed by Homes for Haringey to address the non-compensatory aspects of the Ombudsman’s Recommendations set out at paragraphs 6.22 to 6.32 of this report.

118.

New Items of Urgent Business

To consider any items of urgent business as identified at item 3.

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None.