Agenda and decisions
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Contact: Joel West, Democratic Services Tel: 020 7364 4207, E-mail: joel.west@towerhamlets.gov.uk
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APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE To receive any apologies for absence. Additional documents: |
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DECLARATIONS OF DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTERESTS AND OTHER INTERESTS PDF 215 KB Members are reminded to consider the categories of interest, identified in the Code of Conduct for Members to determine; whether they have an interest in any agenda item and any action they should take. For further details, see the attached note from the Monitoring Officer.
Members are also reminded to declare the nature of the interest at the earliest opportunity and the agenda item it relates to. Please note that ultimately it is the Members’ responsibility to identify any interests and also update their register of interests form as required by the Code.
If in doubt as to the nature of an interest, you are advised to seek advice prior to the meeting by contacting the Monitoring Officer or Democratic Services.
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UNRESTRICTED MINUTES PDF 137 KB The unrestricted minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 27 March 2024 are presented for approval. Additional documents: |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS (if any) FROM THE MAYOR Additional documents: |
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OVERVIEW & SCRUTINY COMMITTEE Additional documents: |
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Chair's Advice of Key Issues or Questions Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) to report on any issues raised by the OSC in relation to unrestricted business to be considered.
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Any Unrestricted Decisions "Called in" by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Under provisions of Section 30, Rule 59 of the Constitution). Additional documents: |
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Community Engagement Strategy 2024-28 PDF 260 KB Additional documents:
Decision: DECISION
1. Approve the Community Engagement Strategy as set out in Appendix 1.
2. Note the consultation with residents, partners, staff, and elected members to develop the strategy as set out in Appendix 2.
3. Note the result of the equality screening as set out in para 4.1.
Action by DIRECTOR. OF STRATEGY, TRANSFORMATION & IMPROVEMENT (R BEATTIE) Head of Corporate Strategy & Communities (A. Hoque)
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Women’s Safety Action Plan PDF 250 KB Additional documents: Decision: DECISION
1. Approve the women’s safety action plan at Appendix 1 to the report, subject to the following additions to the recommendations as underlined below:
Recommendation 1
The council and its strategic partners, including the Metropolitan Police, Faith Communities and the VCS to collaborate to improve the awareness of women of the programmes and help available directly that support women’s safety on the streets.
Recommendation 2
The Council to review current funding arrangements and increase the capacity to support women’s groups that offer domestic abuse services to the community. This to tie into a service-wide review of what is on offer to women of all communities.
Recommendation 4
The Council’s Children and Education Service, in particular Young Tower Hamlets to design support for increasing capacity at schools on raising awareness of domestic abuse and support available.
Recommendation 5
The Council and Residential Social Landlord (RSL) partners should actively strengthen their partnership workings to focus on tackling women safety issues on RSL estates which will build on ongoing RSL work begun with the Ask the Ombudsman event.
Recommendation 6
The Police/THEOs to actively target and focus their recruitment and retention strategy to reflect recruiting representative women from the community in Tower Hamlets. This to be done in cooperation with faith communities and the Council.
Action by CORPORATE DIRECTOR COMMUNITIES (S. BAXTER) Head of Community Safety (S. Smith)
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New Social Housing Regulatory Functions and Nominees to Adopt Responsibilities PDF 299 KB Additional documents: Decision: DECISION
1. Note the requirement for individuals to be appointed to two new functions to comply with new commitments and legislation related to social housing landlords:
a. Responsible Person to oversee the council’s compliance with the new social housing Consumer Standards, as set out in the Charter for Social Housing Residents and Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023. b. Health and Safety Lead to be responsible for monitoring and assessing the risk of failure to comply with health and safety requirements related to the council’s social housing stock as set out in the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023.
2. Appoint the Director of Housing Asset Management to be the Council’s Health and Safety Lead as set out in the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023.
3. Appoint the Corporate Director, Housing & Regeneration to be the Council’s Responsible Person as set out in the Charter for Social Housing Residents.
Action by CORPORATE DIRECTOR HOUSING AND REGENERATION (P. PATTERSON) Director of Housing (K. Swift)
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Tower Hamlets Young People’s Supported Housing Pathway PDF 296 KB Additional documents: Decision: DECISION
1. Approve the recommissioning of the Young People’s Supported Housing Pathway procurement that went live on 18th September 2023 and closed on 17th November 2023.
2. Approve the award of contract extensions to the four block contracts of three existing providers in the Young People’s Supported Housing Pathway of 6 months each to allow for a suitable tender and mobilisation period of the reprocurement.
3. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in Paragraph 4.1 of the report.
Action by CORPORATE DIRECTOR CHILDRENS SERVICES (S. REDDY) Covering Director Commissioning and Youth (L. Richards) |
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1. Approve the extension of the School Health and Wellbeing Service and Integrated Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Service (Safe East) for a period of 8 months to allow for the continuation of the procurement process and mobilisation of the new contract during term time.
Action by ACTING CORPORATE DIRECTOR ADULT SOCIAL CARE (S. BANERJEE) Associate Director of Public Health for Children and Families (K. Cole)
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ANY OTHER UNRESTRICTED BUSINESS CONSIDERED TO BE URGENT Additional documents: |
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EXCLUSION OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC Should the Mayor in Cabinet consider it necessary, it is recommended that the following motion be adopted to allow consideration of any exempt/restricted documents.
“That, under the provisions of Section 100A of the Local Government Act, 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act, 1985, the Press and Public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting for the consideration of the Section Two business on the grounds that it contains information defined as Exempt in Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government, Act 1972”.
EXEMPT/CONFIDENTIAL SECTION (PINK)
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EXEMPT / CONFIDENTIAL MINUTES Nil items. Additional documents: |
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OVERVIEW & SCRUTINY COMMITTEE Additional documents: |
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Chair's Advice of Key Issues or Questions in Relation to Exempt / Confidential Business Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) to report on any issues raised by the OSC in relation to exempt/confidential business to be considered.
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Any Exempt / Confidential Decisions "Called in" by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Under provisions of Section 30, Rule 59 of the Constitution). Additional documents: |
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ANY OTHER EXEMPT/ CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS CONSIDERED TO BE URGENT Additional documents: |