Agenda item

This Item was dealt with in two parts.

1.                                  Community Strategy:

The Board received a verbal update on the Community Strategy consultation process that Haringey Council had undertaken and was given information on the methods taken to achieve the views of all partners that feed into the Haringey Strategy Partnership (HSP). This would ensure that the next Community Strategy would be robust in terms of input and shaping by key players within the community.

A post-card entitled Have Your Say: Shape the Future [Haringey] was tabled to the Board which allowed partners to list there broad vision for Haringey over the next 5-10 years. The Board heard that there had been some initial feedback as a result of this method of consultation fro some 300 people from within the community highlighting issues such as crime (intimidation), cleaner/greener and sustainability issues, and jobs. There had also been a HSP Event held in May at which a number of priorities had emerged which would be communicated to the Board in the next couple of weeks.

The Board also heard that once the consultation period had ended, the HSP, in a special meeting in October, would consider at length the feedback that had been received. As a result of this, the Board agreed to discuss in a facilitated session at its next meeting on 4 September 2006, the health and well-being issues that would need to inform the Community Strategy. The Board recognised that is was important to also focus on the cross-cutting issues without “straight-jacketing” the exercise into purely health and well-being issues. This would be achieved by considering some of the peripheral strands (such as housing and environmental impacts), and how to feed into them whilst engaging partners at all stages.

RESOLVED

That Board agree to the following recommendations put before it:

(i)                  Note the emerging priorities from the HSP event on 25 May 2006.

(ii)               Agree the process for consulting on the Community Strategy within the Well-being sub-bodies which feed into this Board.

(iii)             Agree that the feedback from sub-bodies is reported at the next meeting of this Board on 4 September where priorities for the Community Strategy will be discussed in detail in a facilitated session.

2.                               Local Area Agreements:

The Board was given an update on the further development in partnership working that would involve agreed targets signed up to with the Government Office for London (GOL). It heard that there were four priority areas (known as blocks) of which the Healthier Communities and Older People (HCOP) block would be the most prevalent for this Board to consider and lead on and these were contained in the report before the Board. The Board also received an update on the progress so far which had highlighted a series of mandatory targets of both local and more generic impact, and the need for measurements and baseline data to be obtained as part of the consultation process that was currently in progress. This process would feed directly into GOL by way of a series of submissions over the coming months.

The Board recognised that there were tight deadlines for the consultation process ahead of the first submission date of 30 September, and that this timing was out of sync with that of the Community Strategy which was unfortunate in terms of timing. The Board heard that the HarCEN/HAVCO joint forum would like to lead on the community/voluntary sector statement of the LAA focussing on the pump priming funding arrangements. The Board considered it important to ensure engagement with hard to reach groups was achieved, and to ensure full consultation best practices are followed, despite the tight deadlines.

RESOLVED

That the Board agree to following recommendations put before it:

(i)                 That the Board agree the proposed process for the development of the HCOP Block of the LAA.

(ii)               That the Board note the mandatory outcomes and indicators.

(iii)             That Board partners engage in development of the LAA specifically on the HCOP Block and Decent Homes in the Safer and Stronger Communities Block, in particular the Outcomes Framework, Reward Element and any Enabling Measures.

(iv)              That the Board discuss and agree the consultation process for the HCOP Block of the LAA.