Agenda

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.

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 as noted below).

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 Members’ Register of 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 interest are

defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

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

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting.

To receive an analysis report from the Metropolitan Police (North Area BCU)  and to scrutinise crime data to understand group-based child sexual abuse offending in Haringey Borough. This follows recent discussions on safeguarding at two recent Scrutiny Panel meetings:

• Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Panel (18th Nov 2025) – Item on the Haringey Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) Annual Report 2024-25
• Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel (16th Dec 2025) – Item on the Haringey Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB) Annual Report 2024-25. Queries are relevant to the areas of Panel’s remit to scrutinise issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable adults, transitions (14-25) and Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG).

Report to follow.

To provide details of recent quality assurance activity carried out in Haringey.

Report to follow

To consider the Budget report on the Council’s financial position at the end of Quarter 2 of 2025/26.

The report included with this item was first published as part of the agenda papers for the Cabinet meeting on 9th December 2025.

Members are required only to scrutinise the areas of the report related to the Panel’s remit, including Adult Social Care and Public Health.

To consider any items admitted at item 3 above.

Meeting dates for 2026/27 TBC.