Agenda and minutes

[Victor Olisa in the Chair].

Apologies were received from Mark Landy, Lisa Redfern (Myra O’Farrell substituted), Pamela Pemberton (Robin Charnley substituted) and Beverley Tarka (Sue Southgate substituted).  

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 29 July as a correct record.

The Board were updated that Spencer Alden-Smith, the Borough Fire Commander, was currently unwell and a card was circulated for members to sign.

The Board were advised of the sad death of Paul Head, Principal of CONEL, following an illness. The outstanding contribution that Paul had made over the years to partnership working in the borough was recognised, particularly in community engagement in the aftermath of the riots. His death was a sad loss to the borough and the Chair asked that the condolences of the Board to be passed onto his family and friends. Jane O’Neil was currently Acting Principal at the College.

RESOLVED

·         That the minutes of the meeting held on 29 July be agreed as an accurate record.

A map of the working groups sitting under the CSP would be re-circulated to members for information.

An update on the IRIS project would be taken as an agenda item at the next meeting in December.

To receive a verbal update from the Borough Commander.

The Borough Commander advised that the threat level now stood at severe due to the actions of the Islamic State group. At a London level, an additional team of officers was now in place to increase uniformed presence on the streets. At a borough level, the emergency plan and response capability had been reviewed in light of the threat status. In terms of awareness, officers had undergone training and further information was provided on the Council website and Prevent webpage regarding terrorism and the importance of vigilance. In response to a question, confirmation was provided that a watching brief would be taken on hate crimes and that liaison was ongoing with relevant community groups.

RESOLVED

·         That the update be noted.

The Board were advised that Haringey was moving into the second phase of the programme, with additional funding to enable work to be extended to a further 486 families across the partnership. The Council would have greater ability to shape the programme going forward, with broader criteria to cover early intervention and prevention. There would be six broad headings under which authorities can determine criteria, targets, PIs, outcomes etc. A multi-agency, early help approach was being developed including establishing an early help service with Children’s Services. Further consideration was required on how partners and other initiatives would engage with this second, wider stage of the programme.

The Board were given a brief overview of the first phase of the Tottenham delivery plan, the High Road West pathfinder, which sought to develop a new model of working with residents to deliver better outcome and which would constitute an extension of the reach of the Families First approach. It would focus on engaging in discussions with local people on issues and explore how to address them and release assets.

The Board took part in a group workshop session exploring opportunities in the shaping of the extended Families First initiative, with key feedback set out below:

Question 1

·         Understanding needed of the current diversity and capacity gap.

·         Focus on third sector resources and support available.

·         The importance of the signposting of services.

Question 2 – aligning services

·         The need to integrate pathway.

·         Opportunities around Probation Services including a focus on parenting skills and spending time with the family of prisoners prior to release, support for prisoners on release such as through mentoring and overall, a focus on preventing younger children getting into crime.

·         Scope for co-location of services to be explored further.

·         Providing help to frontline officers to support and co-ordinate activities  through skills assessment and training and raising awareness of the services available.

·         Process map required and respect for lead agency.

Question 4:

·         Baseline required on capacity and resilience in place in community.

·         Establishing people’s priorities and desires.

·         Giving responsibilities to communities whilst recognising differing support needs of different groups.

·         Providing recognition to community activists such as small budgets for Resident’s Associations etc.

·         Facilitating positive deviance.

·         Working with the whole family to break cycles.

The Director of Public Health gave an update on the population based approach to be taken for the refresh of the Strategy covering 2012-15 and which would be focussed on the priorities of childhood obesity and improving mental health and wellbeing. The connections between the refresh and the work of the Board were emphasised including alcohol abuse, violence against women etc.

In response to a question from the Board, confirmation was provided that seeking the appropriate prioritisation of mental health services within local health service provision remained a challenge, and although progress had been made in raising awareness nationally, no additional funding would be available. At a local level, the Clinical Commissioning Group was looking at the commissioning of mental health services, including the links to Children and Adult Services.

RESOLVED

·         That the update be noted.

An update was provided on the implementation of the Haringey community trigger, which had an anticipated start date of 20 October.

The ASB Partnership Board were currently working on the approval of the draft process. The ASB Action Team would administer the system, with final review by a Community Trigger Panel. The Council’s Community Safety team would lead on the process for the whole borough and on behalf of all agencies.

Communications for the Council website was currently being designed, with the intention of providing a single point of contact within Customer Services for the notification system. This information would then be replicated on partner’s websites for a unified approach. Engagement sessions were also being planned with community groups to promote the new initiative. 

RESOLVED

·         That the update be noted.

The Board were advised that a response was being prepared to the 11 recommendations made within the Scrutiny Report on Mental Health and Community Safety. Amongst the actions proposed was an extensive joint Health & Wellbeing Board and CSP session on mental health.

RESOLVED

·         That the update be noted.

The Board were advised that Eubert Malcolm had been appointed the new Head of Community Safety and Regulatory Services.

It was advised that a report on Learning from Rotherham in relation to Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) was due to be submitted for endorsement to the Local Safeguarding Children Board on 30 October regarding learning points to be adopted. A locally based MASE (multi-agency sexual exploitation) meeting was in place in the borough and the importance was emphasised of focussing on the voice of the child and establishing merging chronologies from agencies to facilitate early intervention.

To note the dates of future meetings set out below:

·         11 December, 3pm

·         19 March 2015, 3pm

11 December.