Meeting documents
Venue: Mezzanine Room 1, County Hall, Aylesbury. View directions
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10.00am |
Apologies for Absence |
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10:01 |
Declarations of Interest To disclose any personal or disclosable pecuniary interests. |
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10:02 |
Of the meeting held on 31st October 2017. |
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10:03 |
Chairman's Report For the Chairman of the Committee to provide an update to the Committee on recent scrutiny related activity. |
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10:10 |
Modern Slavery Inquiry This item is an evidence gathering item for the Committee’s Modern Slavery Inquiry. Members will examine: · Best practice in relation to the role of modern slavery partnership networks, what makes them effective, the challenges and barriers involved and what drives change. · They will hear about the numbers of calls to the Modern Slavery helpline run by Unseen. · Victim profiling and victim perspective. · How to build an understanding of prevalence. · The plans for a pilot victim service to be set up in Bucks, what it will look like, its aims, focus and how the inquiry can help shape and inform it going forward
Contributors: Justine Currell, Director of Unseen and Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire. Nicola Bell, Manager of Rahab victim service. |
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11:30 |
The Committee has received one public question from Mr Terry Reilly which is included in the report pack within this agenda.
The public question item is an opportunity for members of the public to put a question or raise an issue of concern, related to Environment, Transport and Locality Services. Where possible, the relevant organisation to which the question/issue is directed will be present to give a verbal response. Members of the public will be invited to speak for up to four minutes on their issue. A maximum of 30 minutes is set aside for the Public Questions slot in total (including responses and any Committee discussion). This may be extended with the Chairman’s discretion.
For full guidance on Public Questions, including how to register a request to speak during this slot, please follow this link:
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/about-your-council/scrutiny/getting-involved/ |
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11:40 |
Sustainable School Travel Inquiry: 6 Month Recommendation Monitoring PDF 331 KB The Committee will review and assess the progress towards the recommendations made within the Inquiry report as agreed by Cabinet in April 2017.
Contributors: Mark Shaw, Cabinet Member for Transportation Joan Hancox, Head of Transport Strategy |
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12:05 |
Economic Development Inquiry 12 Month Recommendation Review Members will review and assess the progress towards completion/implementation of the Inquiry recommendations
Contributors: Martin Tett, Leader John Rippon, Head of Growth and Strategy Philippa Batting, Bucks Business First Ian Barham BTVLEP Additional documents: |
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12:30 |
Modern Slavery Inquiry - Interim Report : What steps should the Council take to ensure it fully meets the responsibilities under the Modern Slavery Act 2015? Members will consider and agree the draft Inquiry interim report for stage one of the Modern Slavery Inquiry. Subject to Member approval, it will be reported to Cabinet on the 8th January 2018.
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12:40 |
Committee Work Programme |
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12.45pm |
Date of the Next Meeting The next meeting will be held at 10:00am on the 23rd January 2018 in the Mezzanine Room 1 County Hall. |