Agenda and minutes

Venue: Hendon Town Hall, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BQ

Contact: Iphigenia Christophoridou 020 8359 3822 Email: Iphigenia.Christophoridou@Barnet.gov.uk Salar Rida 020 8359 7113 Email: salar.rida@barnet.gov.uk 

Note: Public Questions and Comments must be submitted by 10am on the third working day before the meeting. The deadline for this meeting is 10am on Friday 18 November. 

Items
No. Item

1.

Minutes of last meeting pdf icon PDF 79 KB

Minutes:

Councillor David Longstaff, Chairman of the Community Leadership Committee welcomed all attendants to the meeting.

The Chairman informed attendants that the meeting was being live streamed.

 

RESOLVED-that the minutes of the previous meeting held on 7 September 2016 be agreed as the correct record.

 

2.

Absence of Members (If any)

Minutes:

Councillor Hugh Rayner was absent from the meeting.

3.

Declaration of Members' Disclosable Pecuniary interests and Non Pecuniary interests (If any)

Minutes:

Councillor

Agenda item

Interest Declared

Councillor Old

10

Non-pecuniary interest as a Trustee of the Edward Harvist Trust

 

4.

Report of the Monitoring Officer (If any)

Minutes:

None.

5.

Public Comments and Questions (If any)

Minutes:

None were received.

6.

Members' Items (If any)

Minutes:

None.

7.

Preventing and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls & Domestic Violence and Abuse (VAWG & DVA) in Barnet 2017-2020 pdf icon PDF 417 KB

Minutes:

The Chairman reminded attendants that the London Borough of Barnet will have a stand together on the international day for the elimination of violence against women this Friday at the Sangam Centre from 11am-2.30pm and also the Jewish Women’s Aid will have an partnership information stall at Brent Cross on the 24th of December,

 

The Chairman welcomed Superintendent Paula Light at the meeting.

 

Kiran Vagarwal introduced the report and her presentation regarding the Prevention and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls & Domestic Violence and Abuse (VAWG & DVA) in Barnet 2017-2020 report. Following her report Members had the opportunity to ask question of the officer.

 

Councillor Gordon asked how serious the issues are, whether any data is available and how these issues are relevant to Barnet. Superintendent Light responded these incidents are serious; there have been two domestic homicides and they impact on people’s lives and on the public purse. It costs £2 million for each homicide review.

 

Councillor Narenthira asked how young people are educated and Ms Vagarwal responded that they are working with schools, school police officers, colleagues in Family services so that there is a co-ordinated response in order to prioritise schools in the area that they will engage with.

  

Councillor O-Macauley asked what the causes of emotional and financial issues are and what are the different issues that affect different communities and the different way that violence is committed across different communities. 

 

Superintendent Light responded there have been two spikes in different in socioeconomic groups which are elderly parents living with their children and children living with the parents. Different communities are affected differently and they are working with communities to understand their lifestyle.

 

Councillor McGuirk added that one of the key areas of financial abuse is elderly abuse. Need to have wrap-around services and education on healthy relationships, currently there is no statutory requirement to educated. Cuts have affected the provision of services.

Regarding different racial and cultural groups, there is a concern that if communities are targeted they might be discouraged to engage and might distance themselves. These communities need to be embraced. It would also be useful to look at best practice in other boroughs that have much larger ethnic groups.

Regarding working with GPs on future commissioning and pulling budgets, Councillor McGuirk said that GPs are having a tough time and are facing financial difficulties and this needs to be taken into account.

 

A lot of victims find themselves in the criminal justice system and there needs to be work with both victims and perpetrators. Councillor McGuirk added that better co-ordination of services is needed and mentioned that there is lack of suitable housing and cuts to legal aid.

Also, GPs have been known to charge up to £125 pounds for issuing letters for proof of rape but she was not aware if this happens in Barnet but there is a need to look at this practice.

Violence against Women and Girls and Domestic Violence and Abuse cuts across other Committees  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

8.

Community Participation Strategy: Update pdf icon PDF 279 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Sara Elias-Bassett introduced the report which related to the Community Participation Strategy.

 

Councillor MrGuirk asked what work is being done with bigger companies to get them engaged.

Ms Elias-Bassett referred to p.54 of the report which explained how the campaign was going to be implemented. She added that they are working with Re about development opportunities and short listing partners to engage with.

 

Following discussion the Committee unanimously agreed all recommendations.

 

It was therefore RESOLVED:

 

That the Committee noted the progress of the Community Participation Strategy.

 

 

 

9.              

Regeneration and Community Cohesion

 

The Chairman introduced the report which related to the regeneration and community cohesion report as a result of a Member’s item previously submitted by Councillor Narenthira.

 

The recommendation was unanimously agreed.

 

It was therefore RESOLVED:

 

That the actions related to the previous Member’s item are noted by the Community Leadership Committee.

 

9.

Regeneration and Community Cohesion pdf icon PDF 277 KB

Minutes:

The Chairman introduced the report which related to the regeneration and community cohesion report as a result of a Member’s item previously submitted by Councillor Narenthira.

 

The recommendation was unanimously agreed.

 

It was therefore RESOLVED:

 

That the actions related to the previous Member’s item are noted by the Community Leadership Committee.

 

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10.

Corporate Grants Programme, 2016/17 - grant applications pdf icon PDF 256 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chairman introduced the report which related to the two grant applications to the Corporate Grants Programme.

 

The Committee unanimously agreed the recommendations.

 

It was therefore RESOLVED:

 

That, subject to the council’s Standard Conditions of Grant and the special conditions shown in the respective grant assessments enclosed:

 

(i) a one-year start-up grant of £10,000 be awarded to Sangam Association of

Asian Women;

(ii) a one-year start-up grant of £10,000 be awarded to The Larches Community.

 

11.

Forward Work Programme pdf icon PDF 240 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Councillor McGuirk sought confirmation that a report would come back to Committee on Violence against Women and Girls and the Chairman confirmed that a report will be submitted to a future Committee meeting.

 

Councillor Gordon said that it is important to include more statistics in future reports around violence against Women and Girls. 

 

12.

Any item(s) the Chairman decides are urgent