Agenda item

Report of the Director for Culture, Strategy, and Engagement. To be introduced by the Leader of the Council.

This paper sets out the long-term strategic priorities of the Council and has been codeveloped with residents and stakeholders across the Borough.

The Leader of the Council introduced the report, which sought approval to the 10-year vision for the borough.

The Leader of the Council highlighted the following:

-       The vision built on the work already done on the Haringey Deal, which sets out the Council’s way of working and commitment to designing Council services and developing a different relationship with residents, and the Corporate Delivery Plan that sets out the Councils’ delivery ambitions over a 4-year period.

-       The vision responds to the recommendation from the Local Government Association’s Corporate Peer Challenge in May 2023 for a longer-term vision for the decade ahead.

-       The vision sets out a framework to maximise links with partners and stakeholders to build coalitions that help with the delivery of local priorities. It also embeds leadership of the equality, diversity, and Inclusion agenda.

The Leader of the Council concluded, that based on the engagement undertaken to create the vision, the attached document recognises the strengths of the borough and what feels authentically Haringey. It sets out a longer-term ambition where the Council works together with partners and residents to deliver an ‘A place where we can all belong and thrive’.

In response to questions from Cllr Barnes, the following information was noted:

-       Regarding, the sequencing of the Corporate Delivery Plan and Borough Vision and which should have been taken forward first, the Corporate Delivery Plan was at its second iteration and was an action plan and the emphasis of the administration had been about taking actions and were already ‘doing’ the  actions of the vision  and had a strong  delivery model  in the Corporate Plan to enable this.

-       Partners and stakeholders had been involved in workshops and the Council worked with partners to ensure that they were able to input to the vision and this had taken longer to set up because the priority had been giving a full opportunity for a wide engagement exercise.

-       The consultation on the vision also drew on existing engagements taking place on key Council strategies that were being undertaken in the same period.

-       There would be use of existing governance arrangements such as forums and established partnership groups to progress the objectives and if these did not match the aimed for objective then they would be changes or creation of an engagement channel to meet this need.

-       The workshops had been attended by 48 different organisations and consultation had included staff as well. However, if there were gaps identified in the engagement planning outlined, the Cabinet was happy to receive feedback on this.

RESOLVED

To adopt the Haringey 2035 document at Appendix A to this report and agree for it to proceed to Full Council on 18 November 2024.

Reasons for decision

Haringey 2035 sets a ten-year vision for the borough. The document sets the ambition for the whole borough and a framework through which the ambition would be realised.

The Borough Vision should be seen as a foundational document setting out the shared ambitions of the Council, our residents and partners.

Alternative options considered

To not publish a new vision - This option is not considered feasible as the LGA Corporate Peer Challenge Review report highlighted the need for the Council to agree an overarching strategic document, which sets the vision for the whole borough and the parameters in which all other strategies operate.