Meeting documents
Venue: Mezzanine Room 1, County Hall, Aylesbury. View directions
Contact: Kama Wager
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Apologies for Absence Additional documents: Minutes: Apologies were received from Mr S Bowles, Mrs L Clarke OBE, and Mrs A Macpherson. |
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Declarations of Interest To disclose any personal or disclosable pecuniary interests. Additional documents: Minutes: There were none. |
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Of the meeting held on 25 September 2018. Additional documents: Minutes: Of the meeting held on 25 September were agreed and signed by the Chairman. |
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Public Questions This 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/ Additional documents: Minutes: There were none. |
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Chairman's Report For the Chairman of the Committee to provide an update to the Committee on recent scrutiny related activity. Additional documents: Minutes: The Chairman thanked Committee Members for their continued work on the Committee and thanked Ms Wager, for her support to the Committee. |
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Gully Cleansing and Drainage System Maintenance PDF 434 KB As a result of Member concerns raised in previous meetings, Members will review the council’s current policy and approach to gully cleansing and drainage maintenance, through the Transport for Bucks contract. They will examine the current performance, risks and opportunities, with a view to identifying key areas of challenge and possible improvements.
Contributors: Mark Shaw, Cabinet Member for Transportation Mark Averill, Head of Highways (Client) David Stewart, Scheme Delivery Manger (TfB)
Additional documents: Minutes: The Chairman welcomed the Cabinet Member for Transportation and the Operations Manager for TfB who introduced the item and highlighted the following in their summary:
The full discussion can be viewed on the webcast.
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Modern Slavery Inquiry: 6 Month Recommendation Progress Review PDF 86 KB Members will monitor and review the progress towards the implementation of the inquiry recommendations as agreed by Cabinet in March 2018.
Contributors: Noel Brown, Cabinet Member for Community Engagement Nigel Sims, Head of Community Wellbeing Faye Blunstone, Community Safety Coordinator
Additional documents: Minutes: The Chairman welcomed the Cabinet Member for Community Engagement, Mr N Sims Head of Community Wellbeing and Mrs F Blunstone Community Safety Coordinator who introduced the item. The full discussion can be viewed on the webcast but included the following points:
· That significant progress and success had been made with the set up and successful start to the new victim service. There was a coordinator, 2 other posts and the programme manager in place. · In September there was a hugely successful police raid. A number of victims of modern slavery were rescued. The victim service offered by the Willow Project was fundamental to this. Three perpetrators were arrested and six victims agreed to be referred through the National Referral Mechanism and agreed to go to court. This was an unprecedented level of support gained from victims. · The Inquiry Chairman Mr S Lambert, told officers and the Cabinet Member he was hugely impressed with the progress that had been made and praised the officers for their hard work and dedication to driving forward the Committee’s recommendations and work within this important area.
Mrs F Blunstone then provided the Committee with an update on each recommendation in turn and Members asked questions. The full report can be found in the agenda pack and these minutes should be read alongside the detailed progress report.
The following points were raised:
Recommendation 1: Members were informed that this action had been fully implemented The Modern Slavery statement had been agreed by the Cabinet Member and would be published online imminently. Members agreed that this action had been completed to their satisfaction and praised the officers for their detailed response.
Recommendation 2: Members agreed that this recommendation was on track. They asked to see the wording that was due to be added to the business unit plans for both Adult Social Care and the Children Social Care Service areas.
ACTION: Mr Blunstone to provide Ms K Wager with the wording that would be added to the BU plans as required by recommendation 2. Ms Wager will then circulate this to Committee Members.
Recommendation 3: Members agreed that this was on track and they were impressed with the progress made to date. Members asked about the steps taken to increase the numbers of County Council staff and Members attending the training. Mr Reed and Mr Lambert offered to encourage Members through the Member Development Working Group to attend and Mr Lambert informed the Committee that a Member briefing on modern slavery was being scheduled.
Members were told that training leads within Adults and Children’s Social Care had been contacted to help encourage more staff from these important teams to sign up to training sessions. There would be another 50 County Council staff trained in November, the majority of which were social workers. The training had been marketed internally and with partners and the team would continue promoting the training sessions to ensure that it reached as many staff as possible. There would also be an E-learning package ... view the full minutes text for item 7. |
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Committee Work Programme PDF 79 KB Members will consider upcoming items within the work programme and suggestions for future review topics. Additional documents: Minutes: The Committee noted the forward plan and highlighted that they would be holding a detailed work programme workshop in March 19 to develop the annual work programme for 2019/20. |
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Date of the Next Meeting The next meeting will be held on the 22 January 2019, in the Mezzanine Room 1, County Hall at 10:00 am. Additional documents: Minutes: The next meeting will be held on 22 January 2019 at 10:00 am, in the Mezzanine Room 1, County Hall. |