Agenda and minutes
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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. Minutes: The Chair referred Members present to agenda Item 1 as shown on the agenda in respect of filming at this meeting, and Members noted the information contained therein. |
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Apologies To receive any apologies for absence. Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from; Zina Etheridge, Stephen McDonnell, Tracie Downie and Geoffrey Ocen.
The Borough Commander also gave apologies as he was attending a memorial event, which was overrunning. Chris Jones, from the Metropolitan Police attended the meeting as a substitute. |
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Urgent Business The Chair will consider the admission of any items of Urgent Business. (Late items of Urgent Business will be considered where they appear. New items of Urgent Business will be considered under Item x below). Minutes: None |
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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 with respect to those items. Minutes: None |
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To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 14 July as a correct record. Minutes: RESOLVED
That the minutes of the meeting held on 14 July were agreed as a correct record.
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To note the membership of the CSP. Minutes: Noted. |
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Haringey Community Gold Update, including mini documentary PDF 371 KB As part of Haringey Community Gold’s 3-year journey, our young people pulled together a mini-documentary to highlight the work, and celebrate the successes of the programme. On Wednesday 15 September 2021, the team showcased the film at Cineworld in Wood Green, and you can now watch from www.haringey.gov.uk/hcg.
Minutes: The Partnership received a report which provided an update regarding the Haringey Community Gold programme 2019-21, approved by Cabinet in March 2019. It set out progress made in the delivery of commitments made against the Young People at Risk Action Plan and in terms of governance arrangements. The Partnership were asked to note that Greater London Authority funding comes to an end on 31st December 2021. In addition to the report, the Partnership were also shown a mini-documentary ‘Our Impact’ which provided a number of testimonies from young people about the impact of Community Gold on them. The longer version of the documentary was premiered at the cinema in Wood Green and was available to watch at the link provided on the agenda. The report and the video were introduced by Eduardo Araujo, Senior Tottenham Community Safety Manager, as set out in the agenda pack at pages 17-20.
The following arose in discussion of this item:
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Children & Young People Safeguarding Update Verbal Update. Minutes: The Partnership received a verbal update on children and young people’s safeguarding from Bev Hendricks, the AD for Safeguarding and Social Care. The key points were noted as:
The Partnership agreed for children and young people’s safeguarding to be a standing item on future agendas. (Action: Clerk). In response to a request for clarification, officers set out that they needed all partners to review and comment on the missing protocol. Partners were also requested to take part in training in the first chance approach to widen the pool of people who could undertake the return home interviews. The CSP were also requested to develop dedicated collaborative workstreams to co-ordinate and drive the changes to cultural movements such as Me Too and VAWG. (Action: All). In response to the above, the police advised that there were a number of workstreams that would overlap with this. The Chair requested that the above requests were emailed to the Borough Commander for his consideration. (Action: Clerk) Partners commented that there was also some scope to include safeguarding for those transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Officers agreed that there was a significant amount of crossover and that having a standing item on the agenda would allow the CSP to take a look into all of the key workstreams. It was also commented that there was some overlap on the framework with other bodies, such as the Health and Wellbeing Board.
RESOLVED Noted |
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Haringey Crime Performance Overview PDF 190 KB Additional documents: Minutes: The Partnership received a cover report and accompanying presentation which provided an update on crime performance in the 12 months to August 2021 as compared to the preceding 12 month period, as well as compared to the previous 3-year average. Partners noted that overall crime had reduced by 3% since August 2020, and almost all crime categories had also experienced significant reductions. Performance in most areas was similar to the large reductions noted across London as a whole and other in other individual boroughs. Haringey had experienced larger than average reductions in knife crime and robbery offending. The report and presentation were introduced by Sandeep Broca, Intelligence Analysis Manager, as set out in the agenda pack at pages 21-34. The following arose during the discussion of the presentation:
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LCPF/VRU Funding 2022 onwards PDF 206 KB Additional documents: Minutes:
The Partnership received a presentation and covering report from Joe Benmore which outlined MOPAC decision on the Local Crime Prevention Funding and Violence Reduction Funding for from 2022 to 2025 as set out in the agenda pack at pages 35-48.
The CSP was advised that in 2016, the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden, made a commitment to maintain the London Crime Prevention Fund (LCPF) budget at £72 million over 4 years, despite reductions to the Policing grant. Following the postponement of the Mayoral election in 2020, existing funding was continued for a year until the end of March 2022 with a view to confirming future years awards once the Mayoral elections took place in May 2021. Haringey would be maintaining its exiting level of funding that for 2021-22 that it had in place since 2016, which was approximately £550k for LCPF projects and £200k for the VRU.
The CSP was asked to feed into the discussion about which priorities partners wished to support going forwards. The Board was asked to support Community Safety colleagues in pulling together these proposals in support of the next funding year 2022-23. Jackie Difolco requested that she be involved in the process and that links were made with the Early Year’s Strategy and transformation for young people who have family members involved in criminal behaviour. Chantelle also requested to link in with this work from a VAWG perspective. Officers agreed that they would reach out to colleagues outside of the meeting and take this forward over October and November. (Action: Joe Benmore).
Following a request, officers agreed to give the LCPF/VRU funding presentation to the Youth Justice Board. (Action: Joe Benmore).
In response to a question around how the issues of violence and drugs could be separated, from a funding allocation perspective, officers advise that there had been a treatment focus adopted in recognition that drug sales were funding the violence in no small part.
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That the CSP noted the contents of the report and accompanying presentation.
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Offensive Weapon Homicide Pilot PDF 206 KB Additional documents: Minutes: The Partnership received a presentation and covering report from Joe Benmore which set out the Home Office proposals to introduce an Offensive Weapon Homicide Review Process as set out in the agenda pack at pages 49-56. The following arose during the discussion of this agenda item:
RESOLVED
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New Items of Urgent Business To consider any new items of Urgent Business admitted under Item 2 above. Minutes: None |
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Any Other Business To raise any items of AOB. Minutes: The Leader advised partners that she was a co-signatory to a letter from across London councillors to the Police Commissioner, which was a call for action around violence against women and girls. The Leader noted that she would send this on to the Borough Commander. (Action: Cllr Ahmet).
Cllr Brabazon urged the CSP to have an agenda item at a future meeting which was on the night time economy and how the interface worked between the Council and Police on the management of the night time economy. In addition, this should also include looking at how stronger working could be done around licensing issues and joining up links between environment issues and HMO licensing, for instance. The CSP provisionally agreed to have an agenda item on this at its next meeting. (Action: Clerk).
The Police suggested that the next agenda should also have an overview on Operation Boxster, about sex trafficked women in the borough and the dedicated neighbourhood based team of officers who were working to tackle this issue. (Action: Clerk/Chris Jones). |
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Dates of Future Meetings To note the dates of future meetings set out below:
8 December 2021; 9 February 2022;
Minutes: 8 December 2021; 9 February 2022; |