Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

94.

Apologies and Substitutions

To receive any apologies for absence.

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from:

 

Lee Bojtor                                          -Jeremy Walsh substituted

Councillor Nilgun Canver

Jean Croot

Dave Grant                                        -Chris Barclay substituted

Joanne McCartney                            -Sam Evans substituted

Barbara Nicholls

Pastor Nims Obunge

 

 

95.

Urgent Items of Business

The Chair will consider the admission of any items of Urgent Business. (Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be considered under Item 13 below).

Minutes:

No items of Urgent Business were raised.

96.

Declarations of Interest

Members of the Board must declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests with respect to agenda items and must not take part in any discussion required with respect to these items.

Minutes:

No declarations were made.

97.

Minutes

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 12 December 2008 as a correct record. 

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

That the minute of the meeting held on 12 December 2008 were confirmed a correct record.

98.

Terrorism Update

A verbal update will be provided by the Police.

Minutes:

The Board received a verbal update from the Police on the threat of terrorism in the Borough.

 

It was noted that the recent acts of terrorism in Northern Ireland meant that the threat of terrorism in the UK generally and specifically London had also increased and classed as possible to likely.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the update be noted.

 

 

99.

Comprehensive Area Assessment

A presentation will be made.

Minutes:

The Board received a presentation on the forthcoming Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).

 

An overview was given of the scope of the CAA and it was noted that this was comprised of two key strands:

 

Area Assessment

 

This strand would consider how effectively local public services delivered local priorities, economic prospects, community safety and potential for future improvement.

 

Organisational Assessment

 

The second strand would consider the use of resources and performance management and how the Council delivered value for money through the combined use of resources and performance management.

 

It was noted that Partners would be inspected by their own inspection regimes and that these would liaise with the Audit Commission.

 

In assessing this four key themes would be considered:

 

  • Management of finances
  • Governing business
  • Managing resources
  • Managing performance

 

In terms of the Area Assessment the following key areas would be focussed upon:

 

  • How well do local priorities express community needs and aspirations?
  • How well are the outcomes and improvements needed being delivered?
  • What are the prospects for future improvements?

 

It was noted that the Local Authority would be required to produce and publish an Annual Summary, which would include an overview of key priorities, overall successes, challenges and future prospects. It was envisaged that these would form a tool for members of the public wanting to obtain an overview of the Borough.

 

In addition to this a system of red and green flags would be used to indicate areas where arrangements were considered inadequate to deliver improvement or where exceptional or innovative practice was demonstrated.

 

The Board was advised that that the CAA would take a more holistic approach to assessing performance and would gather evidence over the course of a year rather than focussing on a limited period.

 

Members of the Board were invited to visit the Councils website, which contained CAA and would be updated regularly, where further information could be accessed.

 

The Board was advised that the Voluntary and Community Sector was represented by the Chief Executive of HAVOC at the HSP Performance Management Group (PMG).

 

In response to a query that Board was advised that there was no weighting or scoring attached to the Area Assessment. However, if there was a significant area that impacted on the delivery of services as a whole this may be reflected in the overall Assessment.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the presentation be noted.

100.

Third Quarter Performance and End of Year Finance Report (Including LAA Refresh Update)

Minutes:

The Board received a report setting out performance during the Third Quarter against Local Area Agreement (LAA) targets within its responsibility; the current status of the LAA Refresh and expenditure against the Area Based Grant (ABG).

 

It was noted that there were two areas where performance continued to be challenging: residential burglary and theft from motor vehicles. However, the most recent data received showed that performance was moving on the right direction in both areas.

 

Additional funding for 2009/10 had been secured for acquisitive crime and anti-social behaviour case work. The Partnership been had allocated approximately £2M from the ABG for 2009/10 and a further £294.5K of from the Police BCU fund.

 

It was anticipated that full spend would be reached across the majority of the funding available for 2008/09. However, a carry forward of £185K was requested for 2009/10; this was necessary as a small number of projects were likely to run beyond the current financial year.

 

The Board was advised that the Stretch Target in relation to instances of repeat incidents of domestic violence continued to show as Red. This was due to a discrepancy in the calculation used in relation to baseline data. At present performance was being monitored against the number of instances of domestic violence rather than the number of victims. The business case put forward had proposed that this target would be monitored on the number of victims and changes to the baseline data were being negotiated at present.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the report be noted.

 

101.

Safer Communities Priority Actions 2009/10

Minutes:

The Board received a report setting out the proposed priority actions for the Partnership during 2009/10.

 

 

102.

Preventing Violent Extremism

103.

Haringey's Draft Housing Strategy 2009-19

104.

Haringeys First Community Engagement Framework

105.

Discussion Topic:

Community engagement, increasing confidence and perceptions –How can all partners contribute to achieving National Indicator 21: How well the public believes we (primarily the Police and Local Authority) deal with crime and anti social behaviour in the area?  

106.

New Items of Urgent Business

To consider any new items of Urgent Business admitted under Item 2 above.

107.

Any Other Business

To raise any items of AOB.

108.

Dates of Future Meetings

Please note that the dates set out below for the new Municipal Year 2009/10 are tentative until they have been confirmed by Council in May:

 

 

 

Once these dates have been confirmed the finalised listed will be circulated to members of the Board.