Agenda and draft minutes

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15.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note 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.  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’, 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’.

 

16.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS pdf icon PDF 12 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed everyone present to the meeting and invited them to introduce themselves.

 

17.

APOLOGIES

To receive any apologies for absence.

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Cllr Adam Jogee, David Archibald, HSCP Chair, Caroline Haines (Met Police) Latoya Ridge (Victim Support).

Apologies for lateness were received from Lynette Charles, MIND in Haringey.

 

18.

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 agenda item 12).

 

Minutes:

None.

 

19.

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.

Minutes:

None.

 

20.

QUESTIONS, DEPUTATIONS, AND PETITIONS

To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 29 of the Council’s Constitution.

 

Minutes:

None.

 

21.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 308 KB

To confirm and sign the minutes of the joint meeting held on 8 December 2021 as a correct record.

 

Minutes:

The minutes of the previous meeting were agreed as an accurate record. 

 

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting held on 8th December 2021 be agreed as an accurate record.

 

22.

NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY - FROM HARM TO HOPE: A 10-YEAR DRUGS PLAN TO CUT CRIME AND SAVE LIVES pdf icon PDF 2 MB

Presentation by Joe Benmore and Sarah Hart.

Minutes:

A presentation on this item was introduced by Will Maimaris, Director for Public Health, Joe Benmore, Lead on Community Safety & Offender Management and Sarah Hart, Senior Commissioner for Substance Misuse, Sexual Health & Health Improvement.


Will Maimaris explained that there had been a policy shift in this area with the introduction of a National Drugs Strategy and some additional investment had been received to support the implementation of this strategy, particularly around the treatment of people with substance misuse issues.

 

Joe Benmore, Sarah Hart and Will Maimaris highlighted some key points from the slides including:

  • That there were clear benefits in combating illegal drug use. Parental drug use was a risk factor in 29% of all Serious Case Reviews, while heroin and crack cocaine addiction was a significant cause of crime and disrupted community safety. A typical heroin user spent around £1,400 per month on drugs.
  • Statistics on the prevalence of drug and alcohol use from 2010 to 2017 demonstrated that Haringey had higher rates of opiate and crack cocaine users than both the London and national rates.
  • Statistics on drug offences resulting from stop and search showed substantial reductions in almost all parts of the Borough from 2020 to 2021, but this was as a result of large reduction in the use of stop and search caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • The National Drugs Strategy had led from the Independent Review by Dame Carol Black and covered a number of issues that she wanted to address including the previous disinvestment in substance misuse treatment (particularly for young people), the shortage of the workforce and high caseloads. She had also highlighted a breakdown in joined-up systems and the gaps in health, mental health, housing and employment support for those in recovery from substance misuse issues.
  • The Government’s 10-year National Drugs Strategy had three main elements:

o   Breaking drug supply chains;

o   Delivering a world-class treatment and recovery system;

o   Reducing the demand for recreational drugs.

  • On breaking drug supply chains, it was noted that the UK was Europe’s largest heroin market, worth around £6billion per year. The Ministry of Justice plans included targeting the middle market, breaking the ability of gangs to supply wholesale to neighbourhood dealers and dealing with county lines distribution chains and local retail markets. It also included the recruitment of more police officers and increased use of technology.
  • On the delivery of a treatment and recovery system, the plans included more treatment for young people, better integration of mental health, employment and housing providers and better continuity of care for people in treatment when they leave prison.
  • On reducing the demand for recreational drugs, the plans included prevention programmes in schools and for young people and families most at risk of substance misuse.
  • With regards to the funding, the new supplementary grant amounted to approximately:

o   £795k in 2022/23

o   £1.3m in 2023/24

o   £2.5m in 2024/25

 

There was also separate money for inpatient detox but there was an issue about capacity and rebuilding the sector so  ...  view the full minutes text for item 22.

23.

PRESENTATION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS pdf icon PDF 251 KB

Presentation by Dr Chantelle Fatania.

Minutes:

Chantelle Fatania, Consultant in Public Health, provided an update on the progress of the Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG) Strategy noting that this continued to be a high priority as well as an underreported and largely hidden issue. The presentation covered the following points:

  • A pilot project was delivered from April 2021 to March 2022 on a coordinated community response to VAWG. Staff from 32 venues across Haringey (such as libraries, children’s centres, places of worship and food banks) were trained to enable the venues to become ‘Safe Spaces’ where victims of VAWG could speak to someone and be signposted to specialist services. In addition, 150 VAWG Community Champions were trained to link victims of VAWG to specialist services. An evaluation of the pilot was expected to be available by late July/early August 2022 and early findings were promising.
  • A VAWG Business Group had been set up to strengthen the response across key agencies and tackle structural issues within the VAWG partnership. An action plan had been co-developed with North Area Basic Command Unit (BCU) which had set up a specialist domestic abuse unit with 7 staff members known as ADAPT (Advancing Domestic Abuse Prevention Team).
  • A 3-year VAWG communications strategy had been developed to deliver a scaled campaign to promote a culture where VAWG was not tolerated by delivering clear and consistent messaging about unacceptable attitudes and behaviours. A draft communications plan had been taken to the VAWG Strategic Board with the feedback used to make revisions.
  • A number of training activities had been carried out including training from HumanKind to all Haringey drug and alcohol teams on early identification of domestic abuse. DVIP had been commissioned to deliver 6 sessions on developing skills in holding perpetrators to account. The VAWG team had also partnered with North London Rape Crisis to deliver 4 sessions about sexual violence with over 50 people trained and with Tender to deliver multiple sessions on the impact of domestic abuse on young people with over 100 people trained.
  • Three videos had been co-produced with Haringey young people to challenge the high prevalence of victim blaming around VAWG.
  • Solace Women’s Aid had been commissioned to deliver training to key staff from all secondary schools by March 2023. The training would focus on improving knowledge of how to identify and respond to sexual violence and on how to embed cultural change in education and youth settings.
  • A public health approach on supporting schools in preventing peer-on-peer abuse had been co-developed with the Healthy Schools Programme, Sexual Health and Anchor Project Teams.
  • The Protect Our Women (POW) Project had continued to be commissioned. POW was an educational training programme about preventing VAWG and delivering sessions in schools to support young people, staff and parents around healthy relationships. POW had trained 65 staff members across 7 secondary schools and colleges and delivered workshops and training to 200 young people.
  • Additional investment was being put into Haringey’s VAWG services with improvements being aligned with feedback received from communities  ...  view the full minutes text for item 23.

24.

ANTI RACISM AND TACKLING INEQUALITIES (VERBAL UPDATE)

Verbal update. Presentation by Christina Andrew.

Minutes:

Christina Andrew, Strategic Lead for Communities and Inequalities, provided an update on the Partnership Programme Plan Addressing Racism and Racial Discrimination. The presentation covered the following points:

  • The last coordinating group meeting was held in May and a framework was formed for the activity that was being delivered. This included:

o   Working with the BAME Equality Working Group to draw together data on disproportionality and the mental health system including the use of Section 136 powers and the high proportion of use with the young, black male population.

o   Reviewed the categories used for ethnicity and nationality in the equality monitoring forms to ensure that these were fit for purpose and reflective of local people.

o   Delivery of an Equal Start Project at Lea Valley Primary School led by the Bridge Renewal Trust which involved the delivery of laptops to children without digital access and saw engagement in homework dramatically increase among young people in most need of support. 

o   The establishment of a number of community networks.

  • £43,000 had been secured through Health Education England to deliver mental health first aid training to local Police through MIND in Haringey which would take place over the next six months.
  • The first Diversity in the Public Realm engagement meeting had been held with partner and community stakeholders. This had been triggered by the Commission on Diversity in the Public Realm which was established by the Mayor of London. This involved understanding our local heritage and what that means for discrimination throughout the system. A follow up session would be held in the coming months.
  • The Urban Regeneration Team had developed its own guidance on equality, diversity and inclusion in procurement and were working with other teams on how this might be adopted once it had been formalised.
  • A workshop had been held on the partnership response to hate crime in collaboration with faith communities and to launch the Council’s anti-discrimination campaign to encourage people to come forward when they had experienced hate crime.
  • The Parks service had started a pilot project to use an equitable recruitment model looking at how they reach out to diverse communities to encourage them to apply for jobs and to provide support to keep people in roles once they had started employment.

 

Geoffrey Ocen, Chief Executive of the Bridge Renewal Trust, provided details of the Racial Equity in Health & Social Care Group which had held its first meeting in June 2022 and would next meet in October 2022 and February 2023. The Group was co-Chaired by Geoffrey Ocen and Dr Nnenna Osuji, Chief Executive of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.

 

The Group aimed to tackle issues of inequality and structural racism across health and social care services as it applied in Haringey and was driven partly by a report from the NHS Race and Health Observatory published in February 2022 which looked at inequalities in terms of access, experiences and outcomes. The group would also act as a forum for clinicians and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 24.

25.

FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AND MEETING DATES

Members of the Board are invited to suggest future agenda items.

 

To note the dates of future meetings:

 

21 July 2021

22 September 2021

24 November 2021

26 January 2022

16 March 2022

Minutes:

  • 11th Jan 2023 (2pm)