Venue: Conference Room, Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, EN1 3XA. View directions
Contact: Andy Ellis 0208 379 4884 Email: andy.ellis@enfield.gov.uk
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Minutes: The Chair welcomed attendees to the meeting. Apologies for absence had been received from Tony Murphy, Alicia Meniru and Simon Goulden. It was noted that Councillor Ertan Hurer was substituting for Councillor Edward Smith and Councillor Alessandro Georgiou was substituting for Councillor Michael Rye at the meeting. |
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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Members of the Council are invited to identify any disclosable pecuniary, other pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests relevant to items on the agenda.
Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
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ADOPTION REGIONALISATION PDF 246 KB To receive a briefing on Adoption regionalisation, deferred from the April meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee Minutes: Anne Stoker (AD Children’s Social Care and Principal Social Worker) and Tony Theodoulou (Executive Director Schools and Children’s Services), presented an update on proposals for the local authority to join a regional adoption agency.
Anne Stoker highlighted the following:
It was noted that an update would be provided to this meeting in January 2018 on completion of the Business case.
The following issues/ questions were raised
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CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ASSOCIATED RISK TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TASK GROUP To receive a verbal update on the work of the CSE Task Group from Grant Landon. Minutes: Grant Landon (Service Manager Practice & Partnerships) gave a verbal update on the work of the Child Sexual Exploitation and Associated Risk to Children and Young People (CSE) Task Group.
He highlighted the following:
It was noted that there would be an Overview and Scrutiny Workstream this year on human trafficking/ modern slavery which would be led by Councillor Michael Rye.
The following issues were then raised:
Grant Landon was thanked for his update. |
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WORK PROGRAMME 2017/18 PDF 427 KB To review and agree the Overview and Scrutiny Work programme for 2017/18 Minutes: An updated copy of the Overview and Scrutiny (OSC) Work Programme for the year was circulated.
The Chair said it was apparent that there were more cross cutting issues for consideration by Overview and Scrutiny and he was of the opinion that it would be useful for some of the provisional call-in dates set aside on the Council calendar to be used for additional business meetings. This matter would be discussed with members of OSC who were not able to attend this meeting.
Councillor Levy thought that in the future, it may be beneficial for there to be a separate standing Workstream for Children and Young People’s issues rather than having a Crime Standing Workstream. He was also mindful of the fact that the work programme needed to be flexible to enable OSC to examine subjects that may be raised later in the year.
The following amendments to the work programme were suggested: · On the 8th November it was proposed to have a joint meeting with the Health Standing Workstream with colleagues from the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Items to be discussed would be - Delayed Transfer of Care and Air Quality. · A meeting on 12 October would look exclusively at Meridian Water. · The new Chief Executive to be invited to a meeting to give an LBE Strategic Overview. · That monitoring items on Children’s and Young People’s issues would be brought to the 6 September meeting. To include the annual reports on Fostering, Adoption, the reports of the Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) and Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO), together with the London Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) report. · Two of the Children’s and Young People’s issues reports on School Places and Early Years to be looked at later in the year. The School Places, Educational Attainment and Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) reports should be discussed at the same meeting. · An item on Retail in Town Centres to be included and this may tie in with the Enfield Master Plan · The Business Case for the London Regional Adoption Agency (LRAA) to go to 18 January 2018 meeting. The January meeting usually looks at the Budget and it might also be useful to look at the item on Contract Compliance at this same meeting as relevant officers would be present. · Selection of time limited Workstreams for 2017/18 would include Primary School Exclusions (Cllr Dogan leading), Transport Connectivity (Cllr Keazor leading), Human Trafficking/ Modern Slavery (Cllr Rye leading). Councillor Levy also referred to potential future time limited Workstreams on Flytipping, the Changing Relationship with the Voluntary Sector and Loneliness and Social Isolation. · A Pre-decision scrutiny item on Housing Allocations Policy will go to the September meeting of OSC.
Andy Ellis would update the OSC Work Programme |
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MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING PDF 101 KB To agree the minutes of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 25th and 31st May 2017. Additional documents: Minutes: AGREED the minutes of the meetings held on 25 May 2017 and 31 May 2017. |
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DATE OF NEXT MEETING 10th August 2017 – Provisional Call-in Date
6th September 2017 – Business Meeting Minutes:
Councillor Levy thanked everyone for attending the meeting
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EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC To consider, if necessary, passing a resolution under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 excluding the press and public from the meeting for the item of business listed in Part 2 of the agenda on the grounds that it will involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in those paragraphs of Part 1 Schedule 12A to the Act (as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006), as are listed on the agenda (Please note there is no Part 2 agenda)
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