Agenda item
URGENT MOTIONS
Minutes:
13.1 Urgent Motion regarding Youth Offending Services report
Under Council Procedure Rule 11.2, Councillor Maium Talukdarmoved and Councillor Bodrul Choudhury seconded the motion as set out in the supplementary agenda.
Councillor Asma Begummoved and Councillor Mufeedah Bustin seconded the following amendment as set out in the supplementary agenda
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This Council notes:
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The shocking findings of the HM Inspection of
Probation report: Inspection of youth offending services
in Tower Hamlets and the City of London, published yesterday 26th
July 2022.
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That this report represents a serious failureconcerns
in the Council’s handling of crime and youth services over
the past seven years.
·
That the report outlines and highlights
failings rooms for improvement at all some levels of
the delivery process of the services offered by the
Council.
· That the Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell has stated that: “It is clear to us that Tower Hamlets and City of London Youth Justice Service is not performing to the standards we expect – many areas of their work were separately rated as ‘Inadequate’.”
· That the report states that: ‘The service does not have the stable workforce in critical roles and senior leadership has not been effective.’
This Council believes that:
·
This report is but the latest in a series of
instances highlighting the functional, structural and bureaucratic failings of Council
infrastructure.
·
These failings are preventing the Council from
delivering an adequate service to the service users and are
undermining its ability to provide them with the care and support
they are entitled to expect.
·
This report particularly outlines with great clarity
the failings of improvement needed in the Council’s
Youth Justice Service in preventing their young service users from
falling into criminal activity and protecting residents from crime
and anti-social behaviour.
· If residents are to be protected against such problematic behaviour, these young people must be deterred from engaging in criminal activity.
·
Serious improvements
must be made in the service.
This Council resolves that:
·
This report strengthens the Mayor’s call for an independent Council-wide
diagnostic, performance review and investigation, to ascertain the
root causes of these failures and ensure that these improvements
can be made swiftly and comprehensively.
·
The Council’s Youth Justice Service and
Senior Management must present a full account of the measures,
procedures and performative indicators
in place during the period covered in the report, to aid this
above-mentioned investigation.
· The Mayor and the Lead Member to read the report carefully and work with the previous Cabinet Leads, as the current Lead member requested, on an action plan going forward to resolve the concerns raised by the Inspector.
· Create a bipartisan Improvement Board to report on the progress.
· Work on relationships with our statutory partners and stakeholders.
· Support must be given to staff on the frontline so they can deliver the quality service the borough needs.
Following debate, the amendment moved by Councillor Asma Begum was put to a vote and was defeated.
The motion was put to a vote and was agreed
RESOLVED
This Council notes:
· The shocking findings of the HM Inspection of Probation report: Inspection of youth offending services in Tower Hamlets and the City of London, published yesterday 26th July 2022.
· That this report represents a serious failure in the Council’s handling of crime and youth services over the past seven years.
· That the report outlines and highlights failings at all levels of the delivery process of the services offered by the Council.
· That the Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell has stated that: “It is clear to us that Tower Hamlets…Youth Justice Service is not performing to the standards we expect – many areas of their work were separately rated as ‘Inadequate’.”
· That the report states that: ‘The service does not have the stable workforce in critical roles and senior leadership has not been effective.’
This Council believes that:
· This report is but the latest in a series of instances highlighting the functional, structural and bureaucratic failings of Council infrastructure.
· These failings are preventing the Council from delivering an adequate service to the service users and are undermining its ability to provide them with the care and support they are entitled to expect.
· This report particularly outlines with great clarity the failings of the Council’s Youth Justice Service in preventing their young service users from falling into criminal activity and protecting residents from crime and anti-social behaviour.
· If residents are to be protected against such problematic behaviour, these young people must be deterred from engaging in criminal activity.
· Serious improvements must be made in the service.
This Council resolves that:
· This report strengthens the Mayor’s call for an independent Council-wide diagnostic, performance review and investigation, to ascertain the root causes of these failures and ensure that these improvements can be made swiftly and comprehensively.
· The Council’s Youth Justice Service and Senior Management must present a full account of the measures, procedures and performative indicators in place during the period covered in the report, to aid this above-mentioned investigation.
· Support must be given to staff on the frontline so they can deliver the quality service the borough needs.
Motions 12-2 - 12.5 were not considered due to lack of time.
Supporting documents:
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Aspire Urgent Motion following the Youth Justice Inspection, item 13.
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Labour Group Amendment to the Aspire Emergency Motion - Youth Offending Services Report (002), item 13.
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