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AGENDA

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Page Nos.

1. Election of Mayor

2. Election of Deputy Mayor

3. Report of Mayoral activities for 2019/20 by the outgoing Mayor, Cllr Ibrahim Dogus

4. Declaration of Pecuniary Interests

Under Standing Order 4.4, where any councillor has a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (as defined in the Members’ Code of Conduct (para. 4)) in any matter to be considered at a meeting of the Council, a committee, sub-committee or joint committee, they must withdraw from the meeting room during the whole of the consideration of that matter and must not participate in any vote on that matter unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Monitoring Officer.

5. Minutes - 22 January 2020

1 - 20

6. Minutes - 12 February 2020

21 - 30

7. Announcements

8. Leader of the Council, Cabinet Portfolios, Other Administration and Opposition Appointments

31 - 42

9. Review of Allocation of Seats to Political Groups

43 - 48

10. Constitution 2020/2021

49 - 86

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COUNCIL

Wednesday 22 January 2020 at 7.00 pm

MINUTES

The Worshipful the Mayor in the Chair COUNCILLORS PRESENT: Councillors Councillor Danial Adilypour, Councillor David Amos, Councillor Donatus Anyanwu, Councillor Liz Atkins, Councillor Mary Atkins, Councillor Jonathan Bartley, Councillor Matthew Bennett, Councillor Anna Birley, Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite, Councillor Linda Bray, Councillor Tim Briggs, Councillor Lucy Caldicott, Councillor Marcia Cameron, Councillor Rezina Chowdhury, Councillor Malcolm Clark, Councillor Joe Corry-Roake, Councillor Kevin Craig, Councillor Edward Davie, Councillor Jon Davies, Councillor Jim Dickson, Mayor Ibrahim Dogus, Councillor Stephen Donnelly, Councillor Jacqui Dyer, Councillor Pete Elliott, Councillor Peter Ely, Councillor Paul Gadsby, Councillor Annie Gallop, Councillor Nicole Griffiths, Councillor Nigel Haselden, Councillor Dr. Mahamed Hashi, Councillor Claire Holland, Councillor Jack Hopkins, Councillor Maria Kay, Councillor John Kazantzis, Councillor Ben Kind, Councillor Jessica Leigh, Councillor Joshua Lindsey, Councillor Jackie Meldrum, Councillor Irfan Mohammed, Councillor Philip Normal, Councillor Jane Pickard, Councillor Joanna Reynolds, Councillor Iain Simpson, Councillor Joanne Simpson, Councillor Becca Thackray, Councillor Tina Valcarcel, Councillor Christopher Wellbelove, Councillor Clair Wilcox, Councillor Timothy Windle and Councillor Sonia Winifred APOLOGIES: Councillor Scott Ainslie, Councillor Fred Cowell,

Councillor Pauline George, Councillor Mohamed Jaser, Councillor Mohammed Seedat, Councillor Martin Tiedemann and Councillor Andy Wilson

ABSENT: Councillor Adrian Garden, Councillor Marianna Masters, Councillor Jennie Mosley and Councillor Emma Nye

1. DECLARATION OF PECUNIARY INTERESTS

There were none.

2. MINUTES

RESOLVED: That the minutes of the Council meeting held on 16 October 2019 be

approved as a correct record of proceedings and signed.

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3. ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Council noted the results, set out below, from the December 2019 general

election:

Constituency

Member of Parliament Party

Dulwich and

West Norwood

Helen Hayes Labour

Streatham

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Labour

Vauxhall Florence Eshalomi

Labour and Co-operative

Party

Councillor Tim Briggs paid tribute to the many years of service offered to residents

by Kate Hoey who had stood down as the MP for Vauxhall, and highlighted that the

Conservatives had won a majority in the House of Commons with 365 MPs.

Councillor Jonathan Bartley, Leader of the Opposition, reflected on the election

results across the UK and highlighted that the Green Party was looking forward to

building cross-party relationships with the boroughs MPs, especially in relation to

taking action to address the climate emergency.

Councillor Jack Hopkins, Leader of the Council, congratulated the newly elected

MPs and thanked the Acting Returning Officer and election staff for their hard work

in conducting a well organised election. Councillor Hopkins highlighted the important

work that was taking place locally in relation to climate change and stated that more

needed to be done by central government to tackle the emergency.

4. PETITIONS, PNQS AND DEPUTATIONS

a) Deputations

1. A deputation was made to the Council requesting more openness and

community participation in Lambeth’s citizens’ assembly on climate change.

The speaker specifically requested an update on progress in relation to the

remit of the assembly and opportunities for local outreach. A number of other

issues were highlighted, including:

The fact that Lambeth Council had become the first local authority in

London, and one of the first in the country, to declare a climate

emergency.

Concerns relating to delays in setting up the citizens’ assembly.

A request for the Council to confirm who had been commissioned to

facilitate the assembly.

The need for further information to clarify how and when residents

could engage with the assembly in order to develop a strategy / set of

recommendations to reduce carbon emissions across the borough.

The importance of ensuring local planning policy, including the

Lambeth Local Plan, adequately addressed climate change issues.

A request for the Council to confirm how the assembly would be

funded.

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The speaker concluded his presentation by stating he was looking forward to

working with the Council moving forward to ensure the assembly delivered

on its objectives.

The Deputy Leader of the Council (Environment and Clean Air), Councillor

Claire Holland responded. Council noted that:

The speaker was thanked for his speech.

Following regular meetings with a wide range of environmental

groups, including Extinction Rebellion and Mums for Lungs, it had

been decided to delay setting up the assembly to ensure it was

organised robustly.

A steering group, involving a wide range of representatives including

community groups, some of the borough’s biggest institutions, young

people and climate groups, had been established

An independent organisation would be commissioned to run the

citizens’ assembly. It was highlighted that this organisation would be

appointed in due course.

Assembly meetings would be open to the public and information

would be provided to clarify how residents’ could contribute.

Despite the positive work that was taking place across Lambeth

greater leadership was required from central government to tackle the

climate emergency.

2. A deputation was made to the Council in relation to the need to address

issues relating to school exclusions in Lambeth. Speakers from the

Advocacy Academy and representatives from Dunraven school shared

personal stories, statistics concerning the impact of exclusions and raised

concerns about stop and search and racism within the Education and

Criminal Justice System.

The Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young People), Councillor

Jennifer Brathwaite responded. Council noted that:

The speakers were thanked for their powerful contributions, both at

the meeting and in bringing about social change by challenging

agencies across the borough to do more to reduce school exclusions

in Lambeth.

Initiatives such as Raising the Game had made a positive contribution

to tackling both the attainment gap and disproportionately high

exclusion rates faced by Black Caribbean pupils across the borough.

Reducing inequalities in exclusions was a priority for the Deputy

Leader (Children and Young People).

Despite provisional figures for 2018/19 highlighting that school

exclusion rates in Lambeth had reduced by 73%, more needed to be

done across the borough to reduce the number to zero.

3. A deputation was made to the Council about inspiring and supporting

opportunities for young people. The speaker highlighted a number of issues,

including:

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The work that was carried out by Inspirational Youth in Streatham. It

was noted that this organisation worked with young people and adults

to unlock potential through self-awareness, evolution and empathy.

The need for organisations to work together to promote self

discipline, self improvement and to ensure school initiatives were

complemented by other activities.

The importance of involving young people in the design of local

services and programmes delivered across the borough by various

organisations.

The Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and Community Safety (job share),

Councillor Jacqui Dyer responded. Council noted:

The positive impact of Inspirational Youth.

The pressures faced by children and young people.

The importance of listening to and engaging with young people to

ensure local services could respond to their needs and demands.

Initiatives that were in place, and the work that was still needed, to

make Lambeth one of the best places in the country for children and

young people to grow up in.

b) Petitions

Council received a petition from Councillor Nicole Griffiths, with 149 signatures,

concerning the Streatham Hub Children’s Centre.

5. REPORTS

5.1 LAMBETH MADE SAFER STRATEGY UPDATE

Councillor Jack Hopkins, Leader of the Council introduced the report and

highlighted, that the programme had only existed for one year but there

had been considerable progress with implementation. He believed one of

the most powerful parts of the strategy was the engagement and was

complimentary of Councillor Jacqui Dyer and Councillor Mohammed

Seedat for their hard work on this programme.

The external speakers highlighted some of problems faced by young

people in Lambeth, these included:

The work on the Tulse Hill estate to reach out and engage with

young people.

The impact on the mental health of young people who were caught

up in the system.

More support should be provided to young people who were

involved with or affected by violent events.

The services provided by the Gaia Centre mainly targeted those

that were aged 11 to 17 who had experienced sexual or domestic

violence.

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That networks and partnerships for grassroots organizations in

order to provide support be expanded.

Councillor Briggs, Conservative Member, discussed the report explaining

the appendices were the most helpful in terms of understanding the

strategy and the work stream of the strategy. He felt that parts of the main

report were confusing and too broad and some of it needed further

clarification. He also advised that the report generally lacked evidence

around arguments on inequality and racism.

Councillor Nicole Griffiths, Co-Leader of the Green Group believed that the

report was easy to understand and was clear that a lot of effort had gone

into the development of the strategy which had the full support of the

Green Group and were thankful to the Cabinet Members for taking on their

feedback and recommendations. However, Councillor Griffiths advised

that they would like to see the following included:

greater use of youth outreach teams to reach young people;

encourage children to attend youth clubs from a younger age;

extensive, realistic, and relatable education in schools about drugs;

better communication with the Police and the Community on Police

school visits;

accessible advice on the Lambeth website that offers guidance to

parents that are concerned their child might be involved in

dangerous activities

all school should have access not just to social workers, but also

pupil referral units, counselling, experienced youth workers and

family support.

Councillor Jacqui Dyer, Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and Community

Safety advised that this strategy was an excellent step forward, collectively

working together, in a collaborative way to address a difficult change. She

explained that every part of the system needed to be involved in order to

make progress. The Council needed to continue to involve community

members, giving them a voice to help them co-create and co-deliver

strategies like these.

RESOLVED: That (1) the progress in relation to the serious youth violence

strategy be noted; and that (2) the current and planned future approach be

endorsed.

5.2 YOUTH COUNCIL ANNUAL UPDATE

The Youth Council presented their annual report to Council and

highlighted various activities throughout the past year. This included

discussion on the various fairs and events that the Youth Council attended

and hosted throughout 2019.

Councillor Tim Briggs commended the Youth Councillors for being

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involved in the Youth Council, their out-of-the-box thinking, and the

controversial topics/discussions they lead within the community.

Councillor Nicole Griffiths thanked the Youth Councillors for their report

and the amazing work they were doing and showed interest in future

collaboration.

Councillor Jenny Brathwaite thanked the Youth Councillors for being the

voice of the young people in the Lambeth Community. She then went on

to praise the Youth Councillors on how talented, capable, and driven they

were. She ended by agreeing with Councillor Briggs that having radical

ideas and discussing controversial topics were the way to move forward

and spread the message.

RESOLVED: That the Youth Council Annual update be noted.

5.3 CONSTITUTION: IN YEAR CHANGES 2019/20

Councillor Tim Briggs discussed changes in relation to the housing content

of the report, particularly the resident engagement section. He stated that

this part should not have been a reference within the Constitution and

instead should have been a separate and more detailed terms of

reference.

Furthermore, judgment on whether members were abiding to certain

actions was currently seen as too vague and subjective. He also saw the

Labour Council as too weak to get on top of what was happening to the

Housing Department. Councillor Briggs was looking forward to further

discussions with Councillor Gadsby, Cabinet Member for Housing, on the

matter.

RESOLVED: That the changes to the Council’s Constitution, set out in

Appendix 1 of the report presented, be approved.

5.4 DRAFT REVISED LAMBETH LOCAL PLAN PROPOSED

Councillor Becca Thackray thanked the team responsible for the report

and all the hard work and research done over the years to accumulate the

level of details found within it. She went on to discuss the Carbon

Emissions Report and that she would like for it to be shared with members

of the Planning Committee as well as the developers. She hoped that the

Lambeth Local Plan would be used as the basis for the community to be at

the forefront of tackling climate emergency. Councillor Thackray claimed

the Lambeth Local Plan Report demonstrated all the requirements at a

very high level. To further support the initiative, Councillor Thackray would

like to see the formation of a Carbon Budget for the Council.

Councillor Bennett explained that this was the third version of the Local

Plan and was due back later in the year. He further advised that since the

last round of consolation, 300 responses were sent in and over 2000

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points were raised.

Councillor Bennett stated that a huge amount of progress had been made

for the planning policies, pointing out three in particular: 1) carbon neutral

efforts for Lambeth Council would be pushed 20% beyond current

requirements to be even more energy efficient, including entrenching car-

free development wherever possible. 2) Affordable housing currently had a

strong track record and would continue to do so in the new Local Plan.

The Mayor was also making strides in including the current housing

mandates in the London Plan as they were a priority for Lambeth. 3)

Building an inclusive economy was a key area of the Local Plan. This

included making sure the London living wage was paid, having affordable

work spaces, and providing spaces in big commercial developments for

local businesses, social enterprises, and local charities.

Councillor Wilcox noted that planning needed to continue to adapt and

change and the new Local Plan aimed to instil that for the community all

whilst treading lightly on both London and National policies. This new plan

aimed to: drive the creation of more homes, boost local economy, create

places Lambeth can be proud of, safeguard Lambeth green spaces and

heritage, and promote sustainability in the face of climate emergency. She

continued by discussing the process that the Planning Committee

undertook to clarify why decisions and amends could take so long and

how each topic of the Plan varied in complexity. Councillor Wilcox also

expressed concern about the members of the public and members of the

Council not only having the opportunity to share their opinion but to also

actually be heard.

RESOLVED:

(1) That the Draft Revised Lambeth Local Plan Proposed Submission

Version at Appendix 1 and the Proposed Changes to the Policies Map

at Appendix 2 be approved for pre-submission publication and

submission to government for independent examination.

(2) That any minor amendments (typographical edits and formatting) of

the documents in Appendices 1 and 2 prior to the start of pre-

submission publication be delegated to the Assistant Director

Planning, Transport and Development, in consultation with the Cabinet

Member for Planning Investment and New Homes.

6. CABINET STATEMENT

The Leader of the Council, Councillor Jack Hopkins, addressed Council and

highlighted:

He had visited the North Brixton Islamic Cultural Centre in January, with

Florence Eshalomi MP and other councillors, to offer support following anti-

Islamic graffiti being spray painted on a building near the centre.

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The Council would work in partnership with the borough’s diverse community

to eliminate hate crime.

The importance of working together and collaborating to address issues

affecting the borough. This included updates on the work of the Lambeth

Schools Partnership and activities that were taking place with other

stakeholders, including a diverse range of community organisations, to

improve outcomes for local people on matters relating to violence affecting

young people, housing, and climate change.

The Leader of the Council concluded by stating that the borough’s greatest asset

was its diversity and by working together, and putting differences to one side, much

more could be achieved in the year ahead.

7. OPPOSITION STATEMENT

The Leader of the Opposition, Councillor Jonathan Bartley, addressed Council and

highlighted:

That the Green Party had reflected on the results of the December 2019

general election and the uncertainty that local authorities, including Lambeth,

would face following Brexit.

Support for a letter that had been sent to EU citizens in January, by the

Leader of the Council, encouraging local residents to apply for settled/pre-

settled status. In order to make the process as smooth as possible it was

noted that the Council had waived any fees for verification checks.

The Constitutional Working Group had asked for the European Flag to be

flown at the Town Hall on Friday 31 January 2020 (“Brexit Day”).

The progress that had been made since the Council declared a climate

emergency in January 2019 was welcomed. However, it was emphasised

that more still needed to be done across a wide range of areas including

procurement, transport, housing, the corporate reduction plan, and the need

for the citizens’ assembly to be given real teeth. The importance of setting an

annual carbon budget was also highlighted.

Support for the Future Generations Bill which provided an opportunity to

embed long-termism, prevention and the interests of future generations at

the heart of government policy-making. It was hoped that these principles

would be used by the Council to improve local policy moving forward.

8. QUESTIONS FROM COUNCILLORS

1. Councillor Jonathan Bartley to the Deputy Leader of the Council

(Environment and Clean Air), Councillor Claire Holland:

Supplementary question

Councillor Bartley asked whether the Council would set a carbon budget for each

of the 10 years to 2030?

Supplementary answer

Councillor Holland responded by stating work was already underway to better

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understand the Council’s carbon emissions baseline. As a result, until this

analysis had been completed, the Council was not in a position to commit to

such budgets. It was also stressed that tackling the climate emergency went

beyond setting an annual allocated carbon budget and required work and

decision-making across the council and beyond based on a sound evidence

base.

2. Councillor Tim Briggs to the Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and

Community Safety, Councillor Jacqui Dyer:


Councillor Briggs wanted to understand why Labour councillors in Lambeth had

refused to condemn the Mayor of London for his failure to address rising crime

across London. Councillor Biggs asked the Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and

Community Safety to explain why, when City Hall staffing costs had increased by

82%, they had failed to put pressure on the Mayor to use his budget more

effectively, especially when crime in London had increased by 21% while figures

for the rest of the country had reduced by 8%.


It was noted Councillor Dyer had left the meeting and that a written response

would be provided.

3. Councillor Nanda Manley-Browne to the Deputy Leader (Children and

Young People), Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite:


Councillor Manley-Browne asked whether the Council, specifically in relation to

the Raising the Game project, had done any work to develop an inclusive

curriculum and whether the Deputy Leader (Children and Young People) would

be open to working with other groups such as the Black Curriculum Project as

part of this.


Councillor Brathwaite agreed that this was an important issue and confirmed that

an important work stream for the Raising the Game project was the development

of a toolkit to help create an inclusive diversified curriculum for schools across

the borough. Reflecting on her recent visits to schools, who had introduced a

more diverse curriculum, Councillor Brathwaite highlighted such changes had

improved the learning experiences for children. The Deputy Leader (Children

and Young People) concluded by stating that the Council would be willing to

work with any organisation who shared the Council’s values and commitments to

deliver a more inclusive education for all children and young people in Lambeth.

4. Councillor Marianna Masters to the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult

Social Care, Councillor Ed Davie:


It was noted that Councillor Masters was not in attendance, so the Mayor moved

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to the next question.

5. Councillor Tim Windle to the Cabinet Member for Housing, Councillor Paul

Gadsby:


Councillor Windle asked whether the Cabinet Member for Housing was aware of

any standout examples in relation to projects that had used funding for green

spaces and growing so that lessons learnt could be shared.


Councillor Gadsby provided an update on various environmental projects which

would be delivered across his portfolio in the year ahead. This included schemes

that had been designed taking into account the Council’s commitment to tackling

climate change, including the roll out of additional electrical charging points and

an increase in cycle racks across a number of estates. It was also explained that

the Housing Projects team had been working closely with the Section 106 and

Neighbourhood Housing teams to identify funding applicable to estates in need

of green landscaping improvements. Other projects in Stockwell, and elsewhere,

were also highlighted.

6. Councillor Danny Adilypour to the Leader of the Opposition, Councillor

Jonathan Bartley:


Councillor Adilypour welcomed the response from the Leader of the Opposition

and accepted Councillor Bartley’s apology for what he believed was a genuine

mistake. Despite this, Councillor Bartley was asked what he was doing to

increase opportunities for ethnic minorities to contribute to policy making,

including opportunities to speak at events, within the Green Party?


Councillor Bartley stated that the Green Party was committed to standing up for

the rights and concerns of BME communities but recognised more needed to be

done to ensure this was reflected in both the party's policies and by ensuring

BME party members and elected representatives were supported in their political

careers, with opportunities to contribute at all levels of the party.

7. Councillor Liz Atkins to the Cabinet Member for Planning, Investment and

New Homes, Councillor Mathew Bennett:


Councillor L. Atkins welcomed the recently published Streatham Investment and

Growth Strategy 2019-30 and asked whether the Cabinet Member for Planning,

Investment and New Homes would work with the Friends of Streatham Hill

Theatre, Streatham BID and the current leaseholders to determine the

meanwhile use of the building. Councillor L. Atkins asked the Cabinet Member to

support plans, which had been put forward by the Friends of Streatham Hill

Theatre, to carry out a viability study and to publicly endorse their bid to

crowdfund costs through the Mayor’s CrowdFund London 2020 scheme and to

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provide funding through Lambeth’s Community Infrastructure Levy.


Councillor Bennett responded by stating he fully supported the work that had

taken place to refurbish and rejuvenate Streatham Hill Theatre but recognised

more still needed to be done. With this in mind, the Cabinet Member confirmed

he was happy to support the suggestion that had been put forward by Councillor

L. Atkins.

8. Councillor Tina Valcarcel to the Cabinet Member to the Cabinet Member for

Voluntary Sector and Partnerships, Councillor Jim Dickson:


It was noted that Councillor Valcarcel was not in attendance, so the Mayor

moved to the next question.

9. Councillor Pete Elliott to the Cabinet Member for Housing, Councillor Paul

Gadsby:


Councillor Elliott highlighted that he was happy with the response provided in

relation to dealing with rodents on the Central Hill Estate. However, it was

explained that this was just one of many issues that needed to be addressed. As

a result, Councillor Elliott asked the Cabinet Member for Housing whether he

would be willing to work together, with local residents, to look at options to re-

establish a community centre on the estate.


Councillor Gadsby responded by stating that without further information he was

unable to provide any commitment but would be happy to meet with Councillor

Elliott to establish whether his suggestion to re-establish a community centre on

the Central Hill Estate was viable.

10. Councillor Jon Davies to the Cabinet Member for Planning, Investment and

New Homes, Councillor Mathew Bennett:


Councillor Davies welcomed the response from the Cabinet Member for

Planning, Investment and New Homes but asked for an update on when the

actions, to improve member and community involvement in mayor planning

applications, would be implemented.


The Cabinet Member for Planning, Investment and New Homes explained a

number of the proposed actions required changes to the Council’s Constitution.

As a result, it was hoped that these changes would be put forward for

consideration by Council over the next couple of months.

11. Councillor Nicole Griffiths to the Deputy Leader of the Council (Children

and Young People), Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite:

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On the basis that the Council could have made an alternative decision,

Councillor Griffiths asked the Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young

People) to inform residents that the decision to reduce services or close Sure

Start Children’s Centres was one that had been taken locally by Lambeth, rather

than as a direct result of external pressures.


Councillor Brathwaite responded by explaining that the Council’s budget had

been cut by more than half since 2010 by successive Conservative

governments. It was also highlighted that changes to the Dedicated Schools

Grant had resulted in £1.4m less per year for the Council to spend on children’s

centres. As a result, the need to make changes had been driven by significant

reductions in the amount of money the Council received from central

government. In response to these reductions it was explained that the Council

had worked with staff, parents and schools to look at a model that delivered the

best outcomes for each local area. It was recognised that such changes were

not easy but that Lambeth still had the third most number of children’s centres in

London and was committed, despite cuts from central government, to providing

excellent services across the borough.

During the discussion of this item the guillotine fell at 10.00pm.

RESOLVED: That the meeting continue for a further period of up to 30 minutes.

12. Councillor Joseph Corry-Roake to the Deputy Leader of the Council

(Environment and Clean Air), Councillor Claire Holland:


Councillor Corry-Roake asked for reassurances that the most vulnerable and

disadvantaged groups across the borough would be involved in both the

planning and policy making process of the Council’s response to the climate

emergency.


The Deputy Leader (Environment and Clean Air) agreed that it was vital for the

boroughs most disadvantaged communities to be fully involved across policy

making in this area. This was particularly important as research had shown that

vulnerable and disadvantaged groups were disproportionally affected by climate

change.

13. Councillor Stephen Donnelly to the Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and

Community Safety, Councillor Jacqui Dyer:


Councillor Donnelly welcomed the response to his question and encouraged the

Council to make full use the Employment and Skills Strategy.


It was noted Councillor Dyer had left the meeting and that a written response

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would be provided.

9. MOTIONS

Motion 1: Green

The Labour amendment to the motion was CARRIED and Council RESOLVED:

Lambeth Living Rent

Lambeth Council notes:

1) Current high costs of Rent as a result of our broken housing market are

unaffordable for any but higher income earners (the average wage is £26-

30,000 whilst average rents are half that). High rents within the private rented

sector in London are pricing people out of homeownership and pushing people

into debt. Hardest hit are the younger generation, women, people from low

income backgrounds and BAME communities.

2) The proportion of households who own their own home is at its lowest level for

30 years. Polling conducted by Shelter in 2017 found that one in three low

earning private renters had to borrow money to pay rent.

3) Since 2010 the average rent has risen three times as fast as average incomes.

4) One in four families are now raising children in a private rented home,

compared to just one in ten a decade ago.

5) Research by Generation Rent has found that measures, such as rent controls,

which sets rents at 30% of local income would make renting affordable for

those on average incomes and would also allow renters to save.

6) Genuinely affordable rents give people the freedom to live a decent life,

helping lift families out of poverty and not ‘just manage each month.

7) The failure of the current Conservative government to listen to local authorities like

Lambeth and address other important aspects of the housing crisis, particularly the

limited funding available to build more council level rent homes and genuinely

affordable homes for sale.

Council further notes:

1) Local authorities’ currently have limited influence on private sector rental

values or powers over private landlords.

2) Lambeth’s corporate parenting responsibility and duty under the

Homelessness Reduction Act in preventing homelessness, including towards

those who despite losing their home are not deemed to be in priority need.

3) The prevalence of eviction on the grounds of rent arrears, leading to so-called

“intentional homelessness” and the council’s duty to help all who are homeless

to secure suitable accommodation, regardless of whether they are intentionally

homeless'.

4) Lambeth Labour’s council motion of January 2019 which called for the

abolition of Section 21 evictions which are at the heart of many unfair

evictions.

5) Lambeth councillors’ high level of casework on housing issues including

evictions, arrears, homelessness, temporary accommodation and the resulting

physical and mental health issues caused by housing insecurity, high costs

and poor standards.

6) The launch of Lambeth Homelessness and rough sleeping strategy which has

been welcomed by the sector and partners in the borough and which aims to

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support those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

7) The success of the London Living Wage campaign in raising awareness of low

pay and encouraging more employers to follow Lambeth council’s lead and

pay a living wage.

8) The London Living Rent levels set for every ward in London by the Mayor of

London using average local incomes and ward-level house prices based on

⅓rd of average local household incomes and adjusted for the number of

bedrooms in each home.

9) London has the worst gender pay gap in the UK and childcare costs are 28%

higher than the rest of the UK. London is by far the most expensive place to be

a student in the UK. Any calculation of Living Rent must therefore take into

account the lower incomes of women and should include a separate ‘Student

Living Rent’ figure, as proposed by London Assembly Member Sian Berry.

10) A third of Lambeth children are currently living in poverty. Contributors to this

include high rents, low incomes, benefit caps and housing benefit being set at

80% of renters rent.

Council resolves to:

1) Support the administration’s manifesto commitments to support private

renters, including the introduction of a HMO licensing scheme, implementation

of maximum fines of up to £30,000 for rogue landlords, the naming and

shaming of prosecuted bad landlords, the planned consultation from Lambeth

council into extending selective licensing more widely across the borough and

the plans for a Private Rented Charter.

2) Support the call from Mayor Sadiq Khan for powers to control rent rises to be

devolved to London.

3) Ensure that questions on rent levels and controls will be part of the planned

consultation on selective licensing and to ask Cabinet to commission a report

to explore the idea of setting and publishing an annual ‘Lambeth Living Rent’

for the private rented sector with a view to exerting influence on the rental

market within Lambeth. The Lambeth Living Rent should be calculated using a

methodology that utilises existing annually published data based on detailed

research from organisations, such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Existing methodologies will be evaluated for their relevance to Lambeth and

their alignment with the values of this Council.

4) Continue to lobby the Government for the power to establish and enforce local

rent controls and for more powers to protect private renters, as the Cabinet

Member for Housing did last year.

5) To continue with plans for the implementation of a private landlord licensing

scheme; and

6) To call on the government to pass legislation to enable the Council to control

rents

7) Continue to push for the highest number of council level rents on all new build

housing proposals and continue to intervene directly where the private market

fails by building the new council homes that residents need.

8) Support the work of Lambeth’s scrutiny committee which has had four

sessions in the past year on housing issues.

9) Promote the work of all organisations working to support private renters such

as London Renters Union, South London Citizens, Generation Rent and

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Shelter to private renters in the borough.

Motion 2: Labour

The Green amendment to the motion was CARRIED and Council RESOLVED:

The crisis in young people’s mental health

Council believes that, despite the best efforts of Lambeth's families, communities,

health, social care and education workers, our young people’s mental health is in

crisis.

Council notes that in the UK, one in eight children and young people have a

diagnosable mental health condition. The number of young people presenting at

A&E departments with mental health conditions has tripled since the

Conservative/Lib Dem coalition came to power in 2010.

Council notes that due to a decade of austerity and funding shortages, local

authorities and the NHS are only able to support fewer than 50% of the young

people who need to access mental health services.

Council notes the recent survey by Young Minds, the leading charity for young

people’s mental health in the UK, which found that: Two thirds of young people

could not find support when they first needed it; 75% of young people agreed that

they had had to manage their mental health on their own when they couldn’t find

help elsewhere but only 17% felt confident in their ability to do this; and 90% of GPs

agreed that they had seen a rise in the number of young people seeking support for

their mental health in the last three years.

Council notes that in Lambeth suicide is the leading cause of death amongst young

people aged 20 to 34. Suicide accounts for over 6 men and nearly 3 women per

100,000 residents (25 people per year).

Council notes that an inadequate and penalising benefits system, inequality and

deprivation, poverty, housing insecurity and the related trauma result in higher

instances of mental health conditions and higher suicide rates.

Council notes the evidence that by reducing poverty, inequality and focusing on

wellbeing through properly funded public services life expectancy increases and in

turn suicide rates would decline.

Council notes that the Conservative Government has promised to increase funding

to the NHS, but has provided few details for how this will benefit mental health

services. Council further notes that local authorities like Lambeth, who provide vital

social care services that are crucial for people living with mental health conditions,

have seen their budgets cut by more than 50% since 2010.

This Council:

Commits to implementing the London Borough of Lambeth’s Suicide

Prevention Strategy 2018-2021 to help improve the mental health and

wellbeing of its residents.

Welcomes the holding of the Lambeth Poverty and Health Summit in

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November and looks forward to implementing its proposals in 2020.

Welcomes the creation of Lambeth Together and supports its efforts to

continue to improve mental health provision in Lambeth.

Calls on the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care and Lambeth’s

Suicide Prevention Lead to write to the Secretary of State for Health and

Social Care outlining the scope of the mental health crisis for young people in

Lambeth and call for a detailed funding strategy from the government which

adequately responds to the crisis in young people’s mental health.

Calls for the government to prioritise the NHS Long Term Plan for the first term

of Parliament and to prioritise adequate funding for mental health services

within this plan.

Commits to supporting the Mayor of London’s #ZeroSuicideLDN campaign by

providing suicide prevention training to all Lambeth staff and contractors.

Commits to campaigning to get 100,000 Londoners to take suicide awareness

courses, such as those facilitated by Thrive LDN, a suicide prevention group.

Commits to ensure the provision of counsellors and wellbeing practitioners in schools

and colleges.

Motion 3: Conservative

The motion was not carried.

Motion 4: Labour

RESOLVED:

Defending Lambeth’s diverse communities

Council notes that since the referendum in 2016, reports of hate crime in the UK

have almost doubled. Council further notes that we live in a society where abuse

and hatred is becoming more commonplace, and many seek to find differences with

each other instead of celebrating similarities and shared values.

Council believes that as elected representatives, we have a responsibility and duty

to stand up for all of our residents, no matter their background, experiences, or

beliefs. Council further believes that it is vital that we lead in establishing a more

respectful and open space for debate.

Council notes that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has called black people

‘piccaninnies’, gay men ‘bumboys’, compared women who wear the Burqa to ‘bank

robbers’ and said EU residents treat ‘Britain as their own’, as if this country was not

their home. Council believes that expressing such views, and having seemingly no

remorse for doing so, is not befitting of the highest office in the country, let alone

elected office of any kind. Council further believes that the normalisation of such

hateful and bigoted views at the heart of British politics will normalise and legitimise

more hatred, and potentially feed the trend of increasing hate crime in the UK.

Council expresses its concern that the despicable way the Government has treated

some Windrush Generation residents may be repeated with our EU residents with

the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union. Council believes that our

greatest asset is our diversity, and we value all of our communities, including all of

our residents from the European Union. Council further believes that our EU citizens

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are an integral part of our communities and make an invaluable contribution to our

businesses, the delivery of our public services, and to wider public life and we will

stand with them and do all we can to protect them in the period of transition that will

follow.

This Council:

Is proud that tens of thousands of citizens come from other parts of the

Commonwealth, European Union and elsewhere to work, study and make their

home in our diverse borough.

We value and appreciate the huge contribution immigrants make to our social,

cultural and economic life in Lambeth, London and the UK.

We are particularly grateful to those who work in our public sector including

health, social care, education and community safety without whom services

would collapse.

We are also proud that Lambeth is home to have one of the UK’s largest

LGBT+ communities and has vibrant Muslim, Jewish and other religious

communities.

Commends the Leader of the Council for writing to all EU citizens in Lambeth

expressing these sentiments, and encouraging them to request settled status

and asking for their views on what more we could do to celebrate and support

their contribution.

Commends the council for supporting our EU residents applying for settled

status ahead of Brexit, with fee free identity document scanning for those

applying to the government’s EU Settlement Scheme in order to make sure

monetary barriers do not come in the way of our EU citizens applying for

settled status.

Commits to support efforts to make Lambeth a Zero Hate Crime borough and

stand with our minority communities against prejudice, inequality and attacks

by government.

Motion 5: Labour

RESOLVED:

Taking real action to tackle the climate emergency

Council notes that:

In January 2019, Lambeth became the first borough in London to declare a

climate emergency.

In order to lead by example, Lambeth brought forward its target for becoming

carbon neutral by 20 years, from 2050 to 2030.

Since then, the council has undergone a huge shift in strategic thinking, with

tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis becoming one of the borough’s core

goals in its strategic documents, such as the Borough Plan.

Lambeth has invested resources to ensure that tackling the climate crisis is

central to everything that we are doing as a borough despite cuts to our budget

of 56% as a result of Tory/Lib Dem austerity.

In the last year, the council has made huge strides in reducing the council’s

carbon footprint.

In May 2019, Lambeth published its first Responsible Procurement Strategy

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which aims to tackle carbon emissions in the council’s supply chain.

In July 2019, Lambeth made its commitment to a New Green Deal for Lambeth

with a just transition to create a safe and sustainable future for our most

vulnerable residents and our young people; with that, the council published the

first iteration of its Corporate Carbon Reduction Plan, which sets out how

Lambeth Council will become a carbon neutral council by 2030, including

refitting buildings like schools and libraries, and installing energy efficiency

upgrades on Lambeth’s estates.

In July 2019, Lambeth agreed to installing new energy efficiency measures

including new boilers at 10 Lambeth schools, which will save over 300 tonnes

of carbon every year.

In September 2019, Lambeth agreed a deal to enable the council to purchase

100% renewable energy from 2020 onwards.

In October 2019, the council published its new Transport Strategy which is

focused on decarbonising the transport system in the borough that is

responsible for around 30% of the emissions in the whole borough.

In October 2019, the council published its new Green Events Guide, green

travel initiatives, recycling systems, elimination of single use plastic, managing

energy and water more efficiently, as well as choosing sustainable products,

materials and suppliers.

The Council has installed over 130 electric vehicle charging points in the past

year and is reshaping the borough’s streets to prioritise walking, cycling and

public transport.

The Council is in the process of moving its vehicle fleet to ultra-low emission

standards, with our parks fleet becoming 90% green and purchasing five new

electric vehicles for our waste fleet.

Further notes that:

The Council will be holding a fully representative and independent citizens

assembly in the Spring of this year to build consensus right across the

borough including with residents, businesses, community groups and anchor

institutions, to instigate genuine collective action on the climate crisis.

The citizens assembly will enable residents, public services, business, young

people and the council to honestly and openly discuss the trade-offs

associated with climate action in this period of Tory austerity.

In the coming year, the council will look at our strategy for increasing tree

cover to enable cooling, improve air quality and increase biodiversity in the

borough.

Despite local authorities like Lambeth taking the lead with the limited

resources we have, successive Tory governments have been found wanting

when it comes to tackling climate change.

A net zero target of 2050 for the government is nowhere near sufficient

enough to steer us away from climate catastrophe.

We could do so much more as a borough if we had a government willing to

invest in local authorities and local communities instead of starving us of

resources to protect even our most vulnerable

Therefore, this Council calls:

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On the Deputy Leader (Environment and Clean Air) to write to the Secretary of

State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy requesting that the

government adopts the national Labour Party’s ambitious but necessary 2030

net zero target.

On the government to properly resource the fight against the climate crisis and

to resource local authorities like Lambeth so that it can radically reduce its

emissions and create a more biodiverse, low-carbon society.

The meeting ended at 10.12 pm MAYOR

Date of Despatch: Friday 7 February 2020 Contact for Enquiries: Wayne Chandai

Tel: 020 7926 0029 Fax: (020) 7926 2361 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.lambeth.gov.uk

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COUNCIL

Wednesday 12 February 2020 at 7.00 pm

MINUTES

The Worshipful the Mayor in the Chair

COUNCILLORS PRESENT:

Councillors Councillor Danial Adilypour, Councillor Scott Ainslie, Councillor David Amos,

Councillor Mary Atkins, Councillor Jonathan Bartley, Councillor Matthew Bennett, Councillor

Anna Birley, Councillor Linda Bray, Councillor Tim Briggs, Councillor Lucy Caldicott, Councillor

Marcia Cameron, Councillor Rezina Chowdhury, Councillor Malcolm Clark, Councillor Joe

Corry-Roake, Councillor Fred Cowell, Councillor Kevin Craig, Councillor Edward Davie,

Councillor Jon Davies, Councillor Jim Dickson, Mayor Ibrahim Dogus, Councillor Pete Elliott,

Councillor Paul Gadsby, Councillor Adrian Garden, Councillor Pauline George, Councillor Nicole

Griffiths, Councillor Nigel Haselden, Councillor Claire Holland, Councillor Mohamed Jaser,

Councillor Maria Kay, Councillor Ben Kind, Councillor Jessica Leigh, Councillor Marianna

Masters, Councillor Jennie Mosley, Councillor Philip Normal, Councillor Emma Nye, Councillor

Joanna Reynolds, Councillor Mohammed Seedat, Councillor Becca Thackray, Councillor Martin

Tiedemann, Councillor Clair Wilcox, Councillor Andy Wilson and Councillor Sonia Winifred

APOLOGIES: Councillor Donatus Anyanwu, Councillor Liz Atkins, Councillor

Jennifer Brathwaite, Councillor Jacqui Dyer, Councillor Peter Ely,

Councillor Dr. Mahamed Hashi, Councillor Jack Hopkins,

Councillor John Kazantzis, Councillor Joshua Lindsey, Councillor

Irfan Mohammed, Councillor Jane Pickard, Councillor Iain

Simpson, Councillor Joanne Simpson and Councillor Christopher

Wellbelove

ABSENT: Councillor Stephen Donnelly, Councillor Annie Gallop, Councillor

Jackie Meldrum, Councillor Tina Valcarcel and Councillor Timothy

Windle

1. DECLARATION OF PECUNIARY INTERESTS

There were none.

2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Following the terror-related incident that took place in Streatham on 2 February 2020, the Mayor

expressed his thanks to the highly commendable police’s, other emergency services’, and council

workers’ response and support to local residents and businesses.


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Councillor Mohammed Seedat, Councillor Jonathan Bartley and Councillor Tim Briggs supported

the statement made by the Mayor and highlighted that the Council’s thoughts were with the

victims and their families. Tribute was also paid to the hugely diverse but immensely tight knit and

unified Streatham community. It was emphasized that terrorists would not be allowed to divide the

borough.

3. PETITIONS AND DEPUTATIONS RELATING TO THE BUDGET

a) Deputations

A deputation was made to the Council by representatives from Cherry Tree Action Group who

presented plans to re-open the former Cherry Tree Children’s Centre as a parent led co-

operative nursery and community asset. The speaker highlighted:

How the local community had been working together to develop a business plan for a

genuinely affordable co-operative nursery in West Norwood.

That providing access to affordable childcare was crucial to the economic success of

the borough and should feature in the Council’s budgetary considerations.

The need to consider social value in the context of budget making.

Concern about costs associated with unused assets, such as the security required to

keep buildings like Cherry Tree empty.

Disappointment that despite the Children’s Centre being closed for approximately six

months the Council had yet to make a decision on the future use of the site.

In responses, the Cabinet Member for Finance and Performance, Councillor Andy Wilson

thanked the speaker for her positive speech, acknowledged the various difficulties in

balancing work and childcare, and apologised for delays that had prevented a decision,

concerning the future use of the site, being made. Councillor Wilson confirmed he would work

with the Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young People), Councillor Jennifer

Brathwaite, and officers to provide the Cherry Tree Action Group with a written response

which would provide clarity on how and when a decision for the site would be made.

b) Petitions

No petitions were received.

4. REVENUE & CAPITAL BUDGET 2020/21 TO 2023/24

The Mayor informed Council that an update to the Revenue and Capital Budget 2020/21 to

2023/24 report, including an additional recommendation for consideration, had been provided via

an addendum to the agenda. Speakers from all parties were then invited to speak on the Budget.

Councillor Andy Wilson, Cabinet Member for Finance and Performance, proposed the substantive

budget recommendations, set out in the report and the addendum.

Councillor Jonathan Bartley and Councillor Tim Briggs, who had both proposed amendments to

the Budget, set out via the Green Group Alternative Budget and Conservative Alternative Budget

respectively, each addressed Council.

The following members also contributed to the debate:

Councillor Ben Kind

Councillor Maria Kay

Councillor Scott Ainslie

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Councillor Ed Davie

Councillor Lucy Caldicott

Councillor Mohammed Seedat

Councillor Becca Thackray

Councillor Scarlet O’Hara

Councillor Matthew Bennett

Councillor Nicole Griffiths

Councillor Nanda Manley-Browne

Councillor Paul Gadsby

Councillor Pete Elliott and Councillor Claire Holland both then concluded the debate. The Mayor

moved to the vote and reminded Council that, in accordance with the Constitution, a recorded

vote was required when voting on all budget and council tax issues at Council budget meetings.

Amendment 1, the Conservative Alternative Budget, proposed by Councillor Tim Briggs and set

out via the second despatch, was put to a recorded vote and defeated.

Councillors recorded their votes on the amendment as follows:

Councillor For Against Abstain Absent

Danial Adilypour X

Scott Ainslie X

David Amos X

Donatus Anyanwu X

Liz Atkins X

Mary Atkins X

Jonathan Bartley X

Matthew Bennett X

Anna Birley X

Jennifer Brathwaite X

Linda Bray X

Tim Briggs X

Lucy Caldicott X

Marcia Cameron X

Rezina Chowdhury X

Malcolm Clark X

Jo Corry-Roake X

Fred Cowell X

Kevin Craig X

Ed Davie X

Jon Davies X

Jim Dickson X

Ibrahim Dogus*

Stephen Donnelly X

Jacqui Dyer X

Pete Elliott X

Peter Ely X

Paul Gadsby X

Annie Gallop X

Adrian Garden X

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Pauline George X

Nicole Griffiths X

Nigel Haselden X

Dr, Mahamed Hashi X

Claire Holland X

Jack Hopkins X

Mohamed Jaser X

Maria Kay X

John Kazantzis X

Ben Kind X

Jessica Leigh X

Joshua Lindsey X

Nanda Manley-Browne X

Marianna Masters X

Jackie Meldrum X

Irfan Mohammed X

Jennie Mosley X

Philip Normal X

Emma Nye X

Scarlett O’Hara X

Jane Pickard X

Joanne Reynolds X

Mohammed Seedat X

Iain Simpson X

Joanne Simpson X

Becca Thackray X

Martin Tiedemann X

Tina Valcarcel X

Christopher Wellbelove X

Clair Wilcox X

Andy Wilson X

Timothy Windle X

Sonia Winifred X

Totals 1 42 0 19

*The Mayor did not vote.

Amendment 2, the Green Alternative Budget, as proposed by Councillor Jonathan Bartley was

put to a recorded vote and defeated.



Danial Adilypour X

Scott Ainslie X

David Amos X

Donatus Anyanwu X

Liz Atkins X

Mary Atkins X

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Jonathan Bartley X

Matthew Bennett X

Anna Birley X


Linda Bray X

Tim Briggs X

Lucy Caldicott X

Marcia Cameron X

Rezina Chowdhury X

Malcolm Clark X

Jo Corry-Roake X

Fred Cowell X

Kevin Craig X

Ed Davie X

Jon Davies X

Jim Dickson X

Ibrahim Dogus*

Stephen Donnelly X

Jacqui Dyer X

Pete Elliott X

Peter Ely X

Paul Gadsby X

Annie Gallop X

Adrian Garden X

Pauline George X

Nicole Griffiths X

Nigel Haselden X

Dr, Mahamed Hashi X

Claire Holland X

Jack Hopkins X

Mohamed Jaser X

Maria Kay X

John Kazantzis X

Ben Kind X

Jessica Leigh X

Joshua Lindsey X


Marianna Masters X

Jackie Meldrum X

Irfan Mohammed X

Jennie Mosley X

Philip Normal X

Emma Nye X

Scarlett O’Hara X

Jane Pickard X

Joanne Reynolds X

Mohammed Seedat X

Iain Simpson X

Joanne Simpson X

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Becca Thackray X

Martin Tiedemann X

Tina Valcarcel X


Clair Wilcox X

Andy Wilson X

Timothy Windle X

Sonia Winifred X

Totals 5 38 0 19


The substantive budget proposals proposed by Councillor Andy Wilson, set out in the report

presented and addendum to the agenda, were then put to the vote and were approved.



Danial Adilypour X

Scott Ainslie X

David Amos X

Donatus Anyanwu X

Liz Atkins X

Mary Atkins X

Jonathan Bartley X

Matthew Bennett X

Anna Birley X


Linda Bray X

Tim Briggs X

Lucy Caldicott X

Marcia Cameron X

Rezina Chowdhury X

Malcolm Clark X

Jo Corry-Roake X

Fred Cowell X

Kevin Craig X

Ed Davie X

Jon Davies X

Jim Dickson X

Ibrahim Dogus*

Stephen Donnelly X

Jacqui Dyer X

Pete Elliott X

Peter Ely X

Paul Gadsby X

Annie Gallop X

Adrian Garden X

Pauline George X

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Nicole Griffiths X

Nigel Haselden X

Dr, Mahamed Hashi X

Claire Holland X

Jack Hopkins X

Mohamed Jaser X

Maria Kay X

John Kazantzis X

Ben Kind X

Jessica Leigh X

Joshua Lindsey X


Marianna Masters X

Jackie Meldrum X

Irfan Mohammed X

Jennie Mosley X

Philip Normal X

Emma Nye X

Scarlett O’Hara X

Jane Pickard X

Joanne Reynolds X

Mohammed Seedat X

Iain Simpson X

Joanne Simpson X

Becca Thackray X

Martin Tiedemann X

Tina Valcarcel X


Clair Wilcox X

Andy Wilson X

Timothy Windle X

Sonia Winifred X

Totals 37 1 5 19


RESOLVED:

(1) To adopt the General Fund (GF) revenue budget for 2020/21, as set out in the report

presented, which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes:

The Council Tax model set out in Appendix 2; and

The cash limits arising from the above, as set out in paragraph 2.10, a total cash

limit of £307.674m.

(2) To adopt a 1.99% increase in addition to the Government’s 2% Adult Social Care precept

increase to the Lambeth element of the Council Tax for 2020/21.

(3) To adopt the Council Tax Support scheme as set out in Appendix 3.

(4) To note the proposed increases to fees and charges as set out in Appendix 4.

(5) To adopt the London Borough’s Grant Scheme budget of £0.244m in paragraph 2.14.

(6) To adopt the approach to allocating and distributing the Dedicated Schools Grant; Block

Funding for Schools, Early Years, High Needs and endorse the list of services to be

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charged to the Central School Services Block as agreed by Schools Forum as set out in

Appendix 5.

(7) To adopt the Reserves and Balances Strategy detailed in Appendix 1.

(8) To note the current General Fund budget forecasts for 2019/20 in Section 5.

(9) To approve £215.4m as the total general fund resources available for capital investment

for 2020/21 to 2024/25.

(10) To note the revised total of £395.9m for the Capital Investment Programme 2019/20 to

2021/22, as described in section 6 and summarised in Appendix 6.

(11) To delegate to Cabinet the power to increase the Capital Investment Programme 2020/21

to 2024/25 within available resources.

(12) To adopt the Treasury Management Strategy and the associated prudential indicators,

investment thresholds and limits for 2020/21 to 2023/24, as set out in Appendix 9.

(13) To adopt the Minimum Revenue Provision policy as detailed in Appendix 10.

(14) To note the formal advice of the Director of Finance, as the Council’s statutory officer for

the purposes of s151 of the Local Government Act 1972, pursuant to s25 of the Local

Government Act 2003, as set out in section 7 of this report.

(15) To note the financial risks set out throughout this report.

(16) To note that, at its meeting of 30 January 2020, Corporate Committee agreed the amount

of £174,409,261 as the National Non-Domestic Rates Base (the business rates tax base)

and a council tax base of 111,520 for the year 2020/21.

(17) To note Lambeth’s council tax requirement is £130,430,446 as detailed in Appendix 1.

(18) To set the 2020/21 Lambeth element of the council tax for band D dwellings at £1,169.57

by dividing the council tax requirement of £130,430,446 by tax base of 111,520.

(19) To set the Lambeth element of council tax applicable to dwellings listed in different

valuation bands using the statutory ratios:

Band A Band B Band C Band D

£779.71 £909.67 £1,039.62 £1,169.57

Band E Band F Band G Band H

£1,429.47 £1,689.38 £1,949.28 £2,339.14

(20) To note that for the year 2020/21 the Greater London Authority provisional precept:


£217.95 £254.27 £290.60 £326.92


£399.57 £472.22 £544.87 £653.84

(21) To approve the amounts of total Council Tax for the year 2020/21 for each of the

categories of dwellings as shown below:


£997.66 £1,163.94 1,330.22 £1,496.49


£1,829.04 £2,161.60 £2,494.15 £2,992.98

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(22) To delegate authority to the Director of Finance and Property in consultation with the

Cabinet Member for Finance and Performance to change the Council Tax amounts set out

in recommendation (21) if necessitated by changes to the precept amounts as set out in

recommendation (20).

(23) That any consequential amendments to the Council’s Revenue Budget for 2020/21 be

delegated to the S.151 Officer in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and

Resources, provided these do not impact on the overall General Fund Revenue Budget as

approved by Council.

5. SUBMISSION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOR

ENGLAND

Councillor Jim Dickson, Cabinet Member for Voluntary Sector and Partnerships (job share),

introduced a report concerning the Council’s submission to the Local Government Boundary

Commission (LGBCE) in respect of the total number of councillors elected to the local authority.

Councillor Dickson highlighted that Lambeth welcomed the LGBCE review of the Council’s

electoral arrangements and the opportunity to submit representations to the Commission. The

following points were noted:

- The LGBCE was undertaking a review because Lambeth met the Commission’s criteria for

electoral inequality;

- It had been 20 years since the last review;

- A cross party Member Working Group had been established to help guide the Council’s work

in relation to the review; and

- An update to the report, including additional recommendations, had been provided via an

addendum.

Councillor Dickson concluded by informing Council that the LGBCE’s review was undertaken

across two stages. The first, set out in the report, related to Council size while stage two

concerned the number and boundaries of wards; the number of councillors per ward; and ward

names.

RESOLVED:

(1) That the proposal regarding Council size, set out in the report, recommending the number of

councillors remain at 63 be approved for submission to the Local Government Boundary

Commission for England.

(2) That the Director of Legal and Governance be authorised, in consultation with the Chair of the

Member Working Group, to make amendments to the report in response to comments

received from the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

(3) That the revised report be circulated to Members of the Working Group before being

submitted to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

NOTE

Before closing the meeting, the Mayor informed Council that the Strategic Director of Children’s

Services was leaving the Council. On behalf of the Council, the Mayor placed on record his

thanks to Annie Hudson for her years of dedicated service.

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The meeting ended at 8.33 pm

MAYOR

Wednesday 22 April 2020

Date of Despatch: Friday 21 February 2020

Contact for Enquiries: Wayne Chandai

Tel: 020 7926 0029

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.lambeth.gov.uk

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Council – 22 April 2020

Leader of the Council, Cabinet portfolios, other administration and Opposition appointments for 2020/21

Recommendations:

(1) To note the Cabinet appointments as made by the Leader of the Council and other group appointments

(2) To note Opposition appointments as set out in the report.

Cabinet

The Cabinet is made up of eleven elected Labour councillors, however only 10 will be acting in the capacity of Cabinet Member at any one

time. They collectively make decisions, provide political leadership and implement policy through senior officers.

The Administration’s commitment is to be ambitious for everyone and to guarantee fairness for all. The priorities are to:

make our communities safer and stronger;

realise more jobs and inward investment; and,

ensure our neighbourhoods are cleaner and greener.

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Agenda Item

8

Portfolio title and

Councillor name Responsibilities include

Leader of the Council

Cllr Jack Hopkins

Cllr Hopkins is responsible for setting the overall political and strategic direction for the council; acts as the lead

spokesperson and manages external relations including with Government, the Greater London Assembly and local and

regional bodies; as well as managing the council’s relations with key stakeholders, partners and investors and holding the

council’s Chief Executive to account.

The Leader oversees communications and public awareness campaigns. He is responsible for ensuring the implementation

of the Administration’s manifesto commitments and core council strategies, including the Borough Plan.

He is also responsible for maximising youth opportunities, working with partners and the community to make sure that

Lambeth's young people have the best opportunities to succeed in life. This includes the Lambeth Opportunity Fund

to harness the opportunities that Lambeth has to benefit the young people who live and grow up here. He is also

responsible for the council’s ambitious neighbourhood working to shift the Council and our partners culturally and

structurally toward a closer working relationship with each other and the public at the neighbourhood level.

Deputy Leader (Housing

and Homelessness)

Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite

Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite is responsible for housing management services, including working with tenants and leaseholders,

tackling homelessness and delivering decent homes for all tenants. She leads on the delivery of the council’s

Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, which aims to prevent homelessness, improve the supply and sustainability

of Temporary Accommodation and ensure that all people sleeping rough in Lambeth are supported off the streets and

assisted in improving their lives. She is also responsible for delivering the council’s commitments to improving the quality

and security of the private rented sector.

Responsible for:

Housing management services and fire safety.

Managing the capital investment (LHS) programme to ensure delivery of decent homes for all housing tenants.

Overseeing the management of the Housing Revenue Account.

Overseeing Lambeth’s homelessness, rough sleeping and temporary accommodation services.

Tackling homelessness and rough sleeping by delivering our ambitious Homelessness and Rough Sleeping and

overseeing investment in better advice and support for people facing homelessness.

Improving the advice and support available to people living in the private rented sector.

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Portfolio title and


Introducing a new private renters’ charter setting out renters’ rights and Lambeth’s powers to intervene.

Overseeing tenant engagement and rent setting.

Ensuring a high standard of leaseholder engagement to improve the transparency and performance of the major

works programme.

Overseeing the delivery of new resident boards and estate action plans to give tenants opportunities to scrutinize

performance of contractors and the housing service.

Registered Social Landlords and House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) licensing.

The council’s older people’s housing schemes, sheltered housing and extra care housing across the borough.

Deputy Leader

(Sustainable Transport,

Environment & Clean Air)

Cllr Claire Holland

Cllr Holland is the statutory deputy leader for 2020/2021.

Cllr Claire Holland is responsible for improving all aspects of the local environment and public realm so residents can enjoy

a cleaner and greener borough. She works with residents and communities to promote greater sustainability, cleaner air

and cleaner and safer streets.

Cllr Holland leads on efforts to promote walking and cycling in the borough, as well as tackling air pollution. She also leads

on Lambeth’s response to tackling the climate and ecological crisis. She will oversee flagship public realm projects such as

the Liveable Neighbourhoods project in Lambeth, along with the installation of a new network of electric charging points,

the planting of 1,000 new trees and installing clean air green screens at local primary schools. She will also lead on

increasing recycling rates and on ensuring Lambeth’s streets are clean.

The Cabinet Member will also be responsible for the borough’s road maintenance programme, continuing the council’s

investment in repairing roads and pavements to make them safe for pedestrians and cyclists. She will also oversee action

to tackle enviro-crimes such as fly-tipping, littering and spitting.

Responsible for:

Tackling air pollution and overseeing the delivery of installing clean air green screens at local primary schools and

the tree planting programme.

Increasing recycling rates and overseeing the council’s waste strategy and street cleaning services.

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Portfolio title and


Promoting sustainability, overseeing the installation of a new network of electric car charging points and leading on

efforts to reduce carbon as Lambeth seeks to become carbon neutral by 2030.

Tackling environmental crime including fly-tipping, littering and dog fouling.

The council's enforcement functions including Licensing, anti-social behaviour, trading standards and noise

nuisance.

Making Lambeth the most cycle friendly borough in London, improving road safety, signage and street lighting.

Overseeing the borough’s parking needs, including traffic management, enforcement and expanding Controlled

Parking Zones.

Overseeing a programme of road maintenance and repair through the capital investment programme.

Delivering public realm improvements to Lambeth’s public spaces, reshaping them so that they are safer for

vulnerable road users

Strategic transport planning and transport infrastructure, delivering local transport schemes, overseeing the

implementation of Lambeth’s long-term transport strategy and lobbying for improvements to Lambeth’s rail

network.

Utilities and contractor relations.

Championing affordable energy, including local schemes.

Working with the Leader of the Council, The Deputy Leaders work across all areas providing support in the political and strategic leadership of the council

Cabinet Member for

Finance and Performance

Cllr Andy Wilson

Cllr Wilson is responsible for oversight of the council’s strategic financial management and monitoring performance. This includes setting a balanced budget and monitoring the delivery of the capital investment programme. The council faces significant financial pressure over the next few years as a result of central government funding cuts. Cllr Wilson is responsible for ensuring the council’s financial strategy can meet reforms to local government finance, including business rates reform. He also leads on the ambitious capital investment strategy, ensuring investment supports the delivery of the key outcomes identified in the Borough Plan, and on generating new income through investment, opportunity asset sites and adopting a corporate commercial framework or trading approach where appropriate. Cllr Wilson leads on the council’s commitments as a London Living Wage Employer, including encouraging all Lambeth businesses to pay the Living Wage and our work with local Business Improvement Districts to promote Living Wage Zones.

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Portfolio title and


Responsible for:

The council's financial strategy, including budget setting, budget monitoring, financial policy and performance. Revenue collection, business rates, council tax and benefits and Council Tax Support (CTS) underpinned by the

council’s Income and Debt Strategy. Generating new income through investment, opportunity asset sites and adopting a corporate commercial

framework or trading approach where appropriate. Capital investment programme, property management and asset strategies The council’s commitments as a London Living Wage employer. Ensuring the council’s commissioning and procurement strategies provides social value through all of its activity and

contracts. Responsible for oversight of the council’s strategic financial management. This includes setting a balanced budget

and monitoring the delivery of the capital investment programme. The Council’s Pension Fund. Performance management across the council.  Workforce matters including Human Resources and Trade Union relations  The Lambeth Children’s Home Redress scheme Digital transformation, including customer services. Democratic Services: including electoral registration and legal services.

Cabinet Member for

Children and Young

People

Cllr Edward Davie

Cllr Edward Davie is responsible for delivering our commitment to giving young people the best start in life. That includes

the statutory role of lead member for children’s services, powers and duties in relation to looked after children, and our

commitment to improving the care of the borough’s most vulnerable children and young people.

 

Responsible for:

Statutory lead member for children’s services role, including responsibility for corporate parenting, child protection,

children with disabilities and protecting children from sexual exploitation.

Commissioning Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) with Lambeth Clinical Commissioning

Group

Special Education Needs (SEN) services.

Tackling child poverty.

Commissioning of early years’ services, including children’s centres, one-o-clock clubs, and work to deliver

Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) programme

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Portfolio title and


Overseeing commissioning and delivery of youth and play services including adventure playgrounds, working with

voluntary and community sector providers

Working with the youth sector organisations in the borough to deliver excellent services and ensure that young

people are at the heart of decision-making on their services

Education and schools, including educational achievement and attainment, special educational needs, sufficiency of

places and promoting inclusion

Cabinet Member for

Health and Social Care

(Job share)

Cllr Jim Dickson & Cllr

Danny Adilypour

Cllrs Dickson & Adilypour are responsible for working to ensure safe, efficient and effective public health and adult

social services that are as joined-up as possible with the local NHS. Their strategic focus is to reduce health inequalities so

that more residents enjoy longer, healthier and independent lives.

They are responsible for deepening integration between adult social care and health services to deliver more efficient and

joined-up services and leading on how the council and its partners work together to improve outcomes and reduce health

inequalities.

They are responsible for promoting public health in all polices, preventative healthcare, healthy lifestyles, preventing

disease and improving general health.

Responsible for:

Statutory responsibility for adult social care of older people, people with disabilities and those with mental health

issues.

Safeguarding and monitoring performance of all aspects of social care services for adults across the council and its

partners.

Implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Public Health services and promoting public health in all policies.

Leading on the Pan-London HIV prevention programme and the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham sexual health

strategy.

Delivering the carers’ strategy to improve the quality of life, health and wellbeing of carers.

Integrating health and adult social care with NHS bodies.

Overseeing nationally directed changes to adult social care.

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Portfolio title and


Leading the mental health strategy and mental health services.

Supporting implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, supporting how the council and its partners work

together to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities, with particular attention to mental health.

Ensuring the council is effectively planning and delivering long term care for people with disabilities, including those

children who require support throughout their lives.

Leading efforts to support organisations and community groups to tackle loneliness and social isolation across the

borough and introduce a good neighbour befriending scheme to support older people and disabled people.

Cabinet Member for Jobs,

Skills and Community

Safety

Cllr Jacqui Dyer

Keeping Lambeth resident’s safe is our top priority: Cllr Dyer will lead on our work with the community, the police, our partners and the Mayor of London to combat crime in Lambeth. That includes youth violence, community safety, crime reduction programmes, tackling violence against women and girls and tackling anti-social behaviour and hate crime. Cllr Dyer is responsible for the council’s ambitious agenda to increase jobs, skills and apprenticeships for Lambeth residents. 

Responsible for: 

Tackling hate crime, domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. Overseeing our highly regarded Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy (VAWG). Overseeing the Youth Offending Service (YOS) and gang intervention work. Overseeing the Safer Lambeth Partnership. Delivering the serious youth violence strategy using a public health approach to tackling the root causes of violent

crime. Developing & delivering our apprenticeship programme in order to achieve our target of creating 1,500

apprenticeship opportunities over the next four years. Delivery of a dedicated apprenticeships advice service and online brokerage to make it easier and simpler for young

people to access opportunities. Employment opportunities for vulnerable adults and people with disabilities. Adult learning, training and skills. Post-16 education, training and skills for employment in schools, colleges and other settings.  Directing the council’s employment programmes to provide increased opportunities for the long-term unemployed,

those with complex needs, vulnerable adults, people with disabilities and those identified through the Equality Commission as in need of additional support.

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Portfolio title and


Overseeing Lambeth Working and Pathways to Employment to ensure that our jobs strategy helps those in need.

Cabinet Member for

Planning, Investment &

New Homes

Cllr Matthew Bennett

Cllr Matthew Bennett is lead member for planning and leads on economic growth, strategic infrastructure, regeneration and the delivery of new homes in the borough. As lead member for planning Cllr Bennett is responsible for ensuring that Lambeth’s planning policy delivers sustainable growth, maximises the number of genuinely affordable new homes for local people and that the benefits from growth are fairly shared across the borough. Cllr Bennett is responsible for the borough’s economic development and growth, ensuring that Lambeth is a good place for businesses to thrive. The council is committed to an ambitious programme of building new genuinely affordable homes at council rent. Cllr Bennett is responsible for the council’s wholly owned housing company, Homes for Lambeth, and for delivering our estate regeneration schemes, strategic housing projects and the small sites programme. Responsible for:

Lead member for Planning. Housing strategy and delivery; including affordable housing and housing growth and exploring new models for

financing and delivering more homes. Working with partners, including housing associations, to deliver more affordable homes. Leadership of the borough’s own house building programme; including estate regeneration schemes, building 1,000

new council homes, Homes for Lambeth and delivery of all new housing schemes including the small sites programme.

Overseeing the borough’s strategic infrastructure needs; implementation of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and delivering Cooperative Local Investment Plans (CLIPs) to ensure the proceeds of growth are fairly shared across the borough.

Economic development including boosting trade in town centres Regeneration schemes across the borough including transport schemes (Vauxhall and Waterloo), Future Brixton,

visioning West Norwood and working with the Leader on Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea.

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Portfolio title and


Cabinet Member for

Equalities & Culture

Cllr Sonia Winifred

Cllr Sonia Winifred is responsible for the strategic approach to Lambeth’s rich and diverse cultural and tourism sectors. Cllr

Sonia Winifred works with community groups to support the thriving arts and cultural communities. She is responsible for

Lambeth’s library services and for our maintaining our fantastic parks and open spaces.

Lambeth is an open and welcoming borough where people care about one another and we celebrate our diversity. Cllr

Sonia Winifred is responsible for working with partners across the borough to make Lambeth more equal including

embedding equalities into all parts of the council’s work and delivering the work of the Equalities Commission and

overseeing Equalities Impact Assessments.

Responsible for:

Libraries.

Overseeing the development of a new modern archives service for the borough.

The borough’s parks, local food production and community composting schemes.

Registrars, cemeteries and crematorium services.

Working with organisations in the borough’s thriving arts and cultural communities including the Black Cultural

Archives.

Delivering the Events Strategy.

Delivering the work of the Equalities Commission, including delivering at a neighbourhood level, and overseeing

Equalities Impact Assessments (EIA).

Celebrating our borough’s diversity, for example leading on the delivering the annual Windrush Day.

Chair of the Equalities Impact Assessment Panel.

Cabinet Member for

Voluntary Sector and

Leisure

Cllr Donatus Anyanwu

Cllr Donatus Anyanwu is responsible for leading on the council’s relationship with and support to the voluntary and

community sector, working with key partners in Lambeth to deliver on the outcomes in our Borough Plan. He is responsible

for working with the voluntary sector, community hubs and forums to deliver the borough’s voluntary sector strategy and for

our work with the voluntary sector to ensure our most vulnerable residents are protected and supported through significant

national changes to the welfare system.

Responsible for:

Lambeth’s voluntary sector strategy, support for the voluntary sector and community sector property strategy.

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Portfolio title and


Support for community groups, including the Lambeth Forum Network.

Implementing the council’s flagship financial resilience strategy.

Supporting the borough’s small businesses and Business Improvement Districts

Developing a sponsorship and fundraising strategy to support the delivery of the borough plan.

Overseeing Sports and Leisure, ensuring residents are healthier and have ample access to leisure and sports

opportunities.

*These are the principal responsibilities of the Cabinet Members. The Leader of the Council may delegate others to them.

Deputy Cabinet Members are responsible for working closely with the appropriate Cabinet Member, undertaking specific projects to drive process in these

areas and deputising where agreed.

The role of Policy Leads is to support the delivery of the council’s key priorities. They support policy development and implementation and underpin joint

working at Cabinet level by engaging with external stakeholders and backbench councillors on key policy areas. They report directly to the Deputy Leader

(Jobs, Skills and Performance).

Councillor Name Portfolio and reporting to

Cllr Jackie Meldrum Deputy Cabinet Member leading on Resident’s Services; reporting to Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite

Cllr Christiana Valcarcel Deputy Cabinet Member leading on Disability; reporting to Cllr Jim Dickson & Danny Adilypour

Cllr Mahamed Hashi Deputy Cabinet Member leading on Youth; reporting to Cllr Edward Davie

Cllr Anna Birley Policy Lead for the Private Rented Sector; reporting to Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite

Cllr Maria Kay Policy Lead for Income Generation; reporting to Cllr Andy Wilson

Cllr Emma Nye Policy Lead for Recycling; reporting to Cllr Claire Holland

Cllr Jon Davies Policy Lead for London Living Wage; reporting to Cllr Andy Wilson

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Champions:

Cllr Irfan Mohammed – Business

Cllr Nanda Manley-Browne – Education and Schools

Cllr Joshua Lindsey – Health in the Built Environment

Cllr Nigel Haselden – Urban Design and Heritage

Group Officers

Labour Group

Group Leader: Councillor Jack Hopkins

Deputy Leader (Housing and Homelessness): Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite

Deputy Leader (Sustainable Transport, Environment and Clean Air): Councillor Claire Holland (statutory Deputy Leader for 2020/21)

Chief Whip: Councillor Timothy Windle

Green Group

Group Co-Leader: Councillor Jonathan Bartley

Group Co-Leader: Councillor Nicole Griffiths

Deputy Leader: Councillor Becca Thackray

Standards/Monitoring: Councillor Pete Elliott

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Council 22 April 2020

Review of allocation of seats to political groups

Wards: All

Report Authorised by: Chief Executive: Andrew Travers

Contact for enquiries:

[email protected]

Alison McKane, Director of Legal Services and Governance , 020 7926 2353

Report summary

A review of the allocation of seats to political groups is required at, or as soon as practicable after,

each Annual Meeting of the Council or when notice is received of a change in the composition of

a political group.

Finance summary

There are no financial implications arising from this report.

Recommendations

Council

(1) That the report of the Chief Executive setting out the recommended allocation of

seats to political groups, as set out in Table 2 below, be adopted.

(2) That Council reappoints its Committees with the sizes and allocation of seats

between political groups as set out in Table 2 of the report.


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Context

1.1 The current composition of the Council is Labour (57 seats), Green Party (5 seats) and

Conservatives (1 seat).

1.2 Section 15(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 requires the Council to

review the representation of the different political groups on committees and sub-

committees:

At or as soon as practicable after, the Annual Meeting of the Council or

Where notice is received of a change in the composition of political groups.

1.3 The Chief Executive is under a duty, whenever such a review takes place, to submit a

report to the Council showing what allocation of seats would in his opinion best meet the

requirements of section 15 of the 1989 Act.

1.4 As there is only one elected member from the Conservative Party this party cannot be

constituted as a political group on the Council, as Regulation 8 of the Local Government

(Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990 (“the Regulations”) prescribes that

a minimum of two members is required to constitute a political group. However this

member can be allocated any spare seats available once the proportionality rules have

been applied.

2. Proposal and Reasons

2.1 Section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 does not impose any specific

requirement on the Council to consult the political groups as to which committees the

seats should be allocated; this only applies to the actual allocation of a seat to a

particular member.

2.2 However it is clearly preferable if all groups have an agreed position as to which

committees are to be adjusted, provided that the agreed position does not conflict with

the Council’s duty, which is “to make only such determinations as give effect, so far as

reasonably practicable, to the principles specified in subsection (5).”

2.3 In summary these principles of determination (“principles”) are that:

(a) All the seats are not allocated to the same group;

(b) The majority of seats go to the group (if any) which has an overall majority on the

Council (i.e. more than 32 seats);

(c) Subject to the above two principles, that the number of seats on the total of all the

ordinary committees allocated to each group bears the same proportion to the

proportion on the full Council; and

(d) Subject to (a) and (c), that the number of seats on each ordinary committee and

each sub-committee allocated to each group bears the same proportion to the

proportion on the full Council.

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Overall Party split on the Council

2.4 The parties have the following seats on the Council:

Party Seats Calculation % Seat entitlement

Labour 57 57/63 90.48% 33

Green 5 5/63 7.94% 3

Conservative 1 1/63 1.58% 0

Total 63 100% 36

Committee sizes

2.5 The Council has six Committees to which the duty to achieve political proportionality

applies. These are: Appointments, Corporate, Overview and Scrutiny, Planning,

Standards and Pensions. Table 1 below shows the number of seats on each committee:

Table 1

Committee Number of seats

Appointments 5

Corporate 5

Overview and Scrutiny 9

Planning 7

Standards 5

Pensions Committee 5

Total 36

2.6 On the basis of the size of the committees and the total number of seats available the

allocation of seats between political parties is set out in Table 2 as follows, together with the

entitlements which each group has in relation to each individual committee and sub-

committee, adjusted to reflect the current agreed position on each committee and sub

committee.

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2.7 TABLE 2

COMMITTEE OR

SUB-

COMMITTEE

TOTAL LABOUR GREEN CONSERVATIVE

Ordinary

Committees

Appointments 5 4 1 0

Corporate 5 4 1 0

Overview &

Scrutiny

9 7 1 1

Planning

Applications

7 6 1 0

Standards 5 4 1 0

Pensions 5 4 1 0

TOTALS 36 30 6 1

Entitlement 33 3 0

Adjustment

required

NB To give

effect to

requirement

that not all

seats are

allocated to the

same group

-3 +3 +1

Adjusted Totals 29 6 1

Sub-Committees

Appointments

Sub-Committee

5 4 1 0

Children’s

Services Scrutiny

Sub-Committee

5 4 1 0

2.8 In addition the Council has three other Committees, the Licensing Committee, the Health

and Wellbeing Board and the Pensions Board which are not subject to the political balance

requirements. The Council proposes the following allocation of seats to those Committees:

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Table 3

Committee Labour Green

Conservative Total

Health and

Wellbeing Board

4 0 0 4

Licensing 9 1 0 10

Pensions Board 2 1 0 3

2.9 Licensing Sub-Committees are drawn from the Licensing Committee to hear individual

licensing applications. Pursuant to section 9(1) of the Licensing Act 2003, each sub-

committee must comprise of 3 members drawn from Licensing Committee.

2.10 Following the allocation to a political group by the Council, or a committee, of a seat or

seats on a committee or sub committee respectively, regulation 15 of the relevant

Regulations provides that the political group has a period of three weeks from the date that

notice is given to express its wishes in relation to the appointment to such a seat or seats.

If the group fails to express its wishes within the prescribed period, the Council or

committee may make such appointment to that seat or seats as they think fit. Further, the

group to which a seat has been allocated is entitled to express a wish that the seat be filled

by a member of a different political party. However, that seat remains, in law, allocated to

the first group and that group therefore retains the right to terminate the appointment.

3 Finance

3.1 There are no capital or revenue financial implications arising as a direct result of this

report.

4 Legal and Democracy

4.1 These are covered in section 2 above, and generally.

5 Consultation and co-production

5.1 None

6 Risk management

6.1 None

7 Equalities impact assessment

7.1 Not applicable

8 Community safety

8.1 None

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9 Organisational implications

None

10 Timetable for implementation

10.1 Not applicable

Audit trail

Consultation

Name/Position

Lambeth cluster/division or partner

Date Sent Date Received

Comments in para:

Andrew Travers Chief Executive 7 .04.20

Christina Thompson Strategic Director of Finance and Investment

7 .04.20 7.04.20 No comments

Alison McKane Director of Legal Services and Governance

7 .04.20 8.04.20 No comments

Christian Scade Deputy Democratic Services Manager

7 .04.20 7.04.20 No comments

Report history

Original discussion with Cabinet Member n/a

Report deadline n/a

Date final report sent N/A

Report no. N/A

Part II Exempt from Disclosure/confidential accompanying report?

No

Key decision report No

Date first appeared on forward plan N/A

Key decision reasons

N/A

Background information

Relevant Legislation: Local Government and Housing Act 1989 Local Government (Committee and Political Groups) Regulations 1990

Appendices

None.

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COUNCIL 22 APRIL 2020

Report title: Constitution 2020-21

Wards: All

Report Authorised by: Director of Legal and Governance, Alison McKane

Contact for enquiries: Wayne Chandai, Head of the Chief Executive’s Office and Democratic Services

Manager, [email protected], 020 7926 0029

Report summary

Approval is sought to the Council’s Constitution 2020-21, including the executive and non-executive

functions with local choice functions, the appointment of Committees and other bodies for 2020-21, and also

the appointment of Chairs, Vice-Chairs and other members of those bodies. Approval is also sought for the

schedule of meetings for the next year.

Finance summary

There are no financial implications arising from this report.

Recommendations

(1) To note the table of proposed changes to the Council’s Constitution (Appendix 1).

(2) To approve the Council’s Constitution 2020-21, including:

The responsibility for functions, including the executive, local choice functions and the discharge

of functions by way of the joint committees and other bodies;

Scheme of delegation to Cabinet Members and officers, as set out in the Constitution ;

Establishment of Cabinet, including its terms of reference;

Scrutiny arrangements: appointment of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee with the terms of

reference, constitution, membership and call in. Appointment of a Childrens Services Scrutiny

Sub Committee, with the terms of reference;

Rules of procedure (Part 3 of the constitution);

Codes and protocols (Part 4 of the constitution);

Members Allowance Scheme (Part 5 of the Constitution); and,

Management structure (Part 6 of the constitution).

(3) To appoint the Chairs, Vice-Chairs and other members of committees, including substitute members

except where such members are excluded by its constitution (Appendix 2).


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(4) To recommend the Appointments, Corporate, Licensing and Standards Committees to appoint their

respective sub-committees with the terms of reference, constitution and membership (including

substitute members except where such members are excluded by its constitution).

(5) To invite Cabinet to appoint the bodies to undertake executive functions as set out in Part 2, Section 2

of the Constitution.

(6) To invite Cabinet to confirm the renewal of all joint arrangements (whether by way of joint committee or

otherwise), as detailed in Part 2, Section 5 of the Constitution, which, following the adoption by the

Council of executive arrangements, became either the sole responsibility of the Cabinet, or partly the

responsibility of the Cabinet and partly the responsibility of the Council.

(7) To appoint the representatives of the Council on other bodies and outside organisations (Appendix 3).

(8) To approve the annual schedule of meetings set out in Appendix 4.

(9) To note the Council’s Covid-19 governance arrangements included in the Briefing Note (Appendix 5).

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1. CONTEXT

1.1 The Council’s Constitution 2020-21 is submitted for approval, in order to determine the Council’s

executive and non-executive functions including the local choice functions, and appoint Cabinet,

Committees and other bodies for 2020-21.

1.2 Additionally, this iteration of the annual Constitution report is asking Members to note the briefing note

on updated governance arrangements (Appendix 5) in light of the Covid-19 emergency.

2. PROPOSAL AND REASONS

2.1 Approval is sought to the Council’s Constitution for 2020-21, which sets out how the Council operates,

how decisions are made, and the procedures which are followed to ensure that these are efficient,

transparent and accountable to local people. The Constitution consists of the following Parts:

Part 1 Introduction to the Council Constitution;

Part 2 How the council makes decisions;

Part 3 Rules governing how the council operates;

Part 4 Codes and protocols;

Part 5 Members allowance scheme; and

Part 6 Management structure.

2.2 The Constitution explains how executive and non-executive functions are exercised.

2.3 A number of changes are proposed to the Constitution for 2020-21. These are set out in detail in the

attached list of changes (Appendix 1).

2.4 The additional measures highlighted in Appendix 5 detail the importance of instigating measures and

arrangements that balance the need for democratic accountability with the need to protect the health

and safety of the public, elected Members and council staff. It is envisioned that the Council will

continue to follow Government guidelines on Covid-19 until the point at which it is practical and safe to

resume normal meeting and decision-making processes. The associated Local Authorities and Police

and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings)

(England and Wales) Regulations 2020 being in place, at present, until 7 May 2021 at the latest.

2.5 These Regulations are now live and in effect, and enables the Council increased flexibility to hold

Council meetings remotely so that the health of attendees is upheld. The Council is currently testing

Microsoft Teams software to enable virtual meetings, with particular notice of this for upcoming

Planning Applications Committees and this meeting of the Full Council.

3. FINANCE

3.1 There are no specific capital or revenue implications arising as a direct result of this report.

4. LEGAL AND DEMOCRACY

4.1 Various duties are imposed on the Council by virtue of Part II of the Local Government Act 2000 and

its subordinate legislation. In addition, the relevant references are set out in the Constitution itself, in

accordance with the statutory guidance and Modular Constitution. In considering the

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recommendations, Members should be aware that the usual principles of administrative law will apply,

e.g. all relevant factors must be taken into account and all irrelevant ones ignored.

4.2 Following the adoption of the recommendations of this report the Council must comply, as soon as

reasonably practicable, with the following further publicity requirements:

a. Publish annually – i.e. between 14 and 21 days before the first Forward Plan of that year comes

into effect) a notice in a local newspaper giving details of the contents and operation of the Forward

Plan; and,

b. Arrange for the Constitution to be available for public inspection and to supply, on request, a copy

of the Constitution to any person, on payment of such reasonable fee as the Council may

determine.

4.3 Appendix 5 sets out the revised decision-making processes of the Council under the Coronavirus Act

2020, specifically on the remote meeting of various Council bodies until such a time that normal

meetings of the Council and its committees can take place and the impact and rights of Members and

members of the public to attend and engage in such meetings.

5. CONSULTATION AND CO-PRODUCTION

5.1 None.

6. RISK MANAGEMENT

6.1 None.

7. EQUALITIES IMPACT ASSESSMENT

7.1 None.

8. COMMUNITY SAFETY

8.1 None.

9. ORGANISATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

9.1 None.

10. TIMETABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION

10.1 The changes made in the Constitution will take immediate effect.

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AUDIT TRAIL

Consultation

Name/Position Lambeth

Directorate Date Sent Date Received

Comments

in para:

Alison McKane,

Director Legal and

Governance

Legal and

Governance 09.04.20 14.04.20 4.3

REPORT HISTORY

Original discussion with Cabinet Member Ongoing

Report deadline 06.04.20

Date final report sent 09.04.20

Part II Exempt from Disclosure/confidential

accompanying report? No

Key decision report No

Date first appeared on forward plan N/A

Key decision reasons N/A

Background information

Previous constitutions

Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels

(Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and

Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and

Wales) Regulations 2020

Local Government Act 2000

Appendices

1. Schedule of changes to the constitution –

2. Committee & sub-committee memberships

2020-21

3. The Council's representatives on other bodies

and outside organisations 2020-21

4. Annual schedule of meetings

5. Coronavirus Briefing Note to councillors

08.04.20

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http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CId=738&info=1&MD=Constitution

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/392/contents/made




https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/22/contents

Constitution 2019-20: Amendments to be agreed by Council (Part B)

(updated version)

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How the council

makes

decisions,

Asset

Management

Cabinet

Advisory Panel

Terms of Reference:

Status

The Asset Management Cabinet Advisory Panel is

constituted under Cabinet Procedure Rule 1.3(e) of

the Constitution. The Asset Management Cabinet

Advisory Panel will operate in accordance with the

arrangements as set out in the Constitution, Part 2,

Section 2. Operating as any panel, the Panel does

not need to be politically balanced or made up of

only Cabinet members.

The Panel has no formal decision-making powers.

It may include any member of the Council (such as

Deputy Cabinet Members), officers, stakeholders,

etc. and may call on these individuals to give

evidence as required by the Chair. Its core

membership is set out below. However, there is no

requirement for Panel meetings to be open to the

public or for any related reports or minutes to be

made available to other councillors or to the public.

Further, and accordingly, the provisions of the

Access to Information Procedure Rules and of the

Cabinet Procedure Rules (Part 3 of the Council’s

Constitution) shall not apply unless expressly

indicated to the contrary.

Governance context

The Asset Management Cabinet Advisory Panel is

accountable to Cabinet. The Panel operates within

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the Council’s wider corporate governance

framework.

Purpose

The Asset Management Cabinet Advisory Panel

will be advisory on the following issues, with

recommendations being made to officers and/or

Cabinet as necessary:

a. the formulation and delivery of the Capital

Investment Programme, comprising:

i. oversight of the Enhancement programme

for the existing estate;

ii. oversight of the Development programme of

new build or transformational improvements to

infrastructure;

iii. oversight of Delivery of the capital

programme;

iv. oversight of Bidding for capital grants;

v. oversight of the Capital Pipeline;

b. the formulation and delivery of the Asset

Management Strategy, comprising:

i. acquisitions/site assembly/disposals;

ii. asset class reviews and strategies;

iii. community asset transfers; and,

iv. assets of community value.

Membership

Four Cabinet Members, other Cabinet members

may attend from time to time. The Chair may invite

other Councillors and individuals external to the

Council to attend on occasion. The Director of

Finance will be the lead officer and will determine

which officers will attend each particular meeting

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and should prepare reports and respond to issues

raised.

Working arrangements

There will be at least six meetings held in a

calendar year in accordance with a timetable drawn

up by the Director of Finance and will not be open

to the press and public. At least two meetings will

specifically consider Infrastructure Development

including the investment of Development Income.

These meetings will be coordinated by the

Strategic Director of Sustainable Growth and

Opportunity. The Panel will be serviced by

Corporate Affairs. Reports required will be

commissioned by the Director of Finance. In order

to allow proper preparation for the meetings, three

clear days’ notice will be given by the Director of

Finance of the agenda and supporting reports. All

reports (including appendices) must reach the

Director of Finance not later than 5pm four clear

days before the meeting. If this is not possible on

any particular occasion, the Chair will determine

whether the issue should be accepted for the

agenda or deferred for the next meeting. Notice of

the meeting will be sent to all Cabinet members.

The Panel in consultation with the Director of

Finance will determine which officers need to

attend each particular meeting, but this will

normally be representatives of:

a. Strategic Director of Sustainable Growth

and Opportunity; and,

b. Director of Finance.

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The above officers will be required to write and

contribute to reports for the Panel. Standard

agenda items are:

i. Minutes of the previous meeting;

ii. Declarations of interest; and,

iii. Reports submitted by the Chief Finance

Officer.

The quorum will be three councillors. In the

absence of the Chair, or at the request of the Chair

if present, the meeting shall be chaired by another

Cabinet Member elected by the meeting. The

Chair will decide all matters of order, competence,

relevancy and interpretation of Procedure Rules,

and their decision at the meeting is final.

The Asset Management Cabinet Advisory Panel

will endeavour to give direction by consensus, but

by a show of hands if necessary.

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Part 2, How the

Council Makes

Decisions,

Section 4

5. The authority to move projects from the

Capital Investment Pipeline to the Capital

Investment Programme as and when additional

funding becomes available, in consultation with the

Strategic Asset Management Group and the Asset

Management Cabinet Advisory Panel.

6. The authority to increase the Capital

Investment Programme by the value of any

external resources the council receives in addition

to those set out in the budget, in consultation with

the Strategic Asset Management Group and the

Asset Management Cabinet Advisory Panel.

5. The authority to move projects from the Capital

Investment Pipeline to the Capital Investment Programme as

and when additional funding becomes available, in

consultation with the Strategic Asset Management Group.

6. The authority to increase the Capital Investment

Programme by the value of any external resources the council

receives in addition to those set out in the budget, in

consultation with the Strategic Asset Management Group.

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Pg283

Part 5 –

Members

Allowance

Scheme

SRAs

Pensions Committee Chair – N/A

SRAs

Pensions Committee Chair – £5,000

Part 1

15 –

Finance,

Contracts

and

Legal

Matters

15.4

p.24

Common Seal

of the Council

The Common Seal of the Council is the official seal used to authenticate official council documentation. It will be kept in a safe place in the custody of the Director of Legal and Governance. A decision of the Council, or of any part of it, will be sufficient authority for sealing any document necessary to give effect to the decision. The Common Seal will be affixed to those documents which in the opinion of the Director of Legal and Governance should be sealed. The affixing of the Common Seal will be attested to by either the Chief Executive, Chief Finance Officer, the Director of Legal and Governance or their duly authorised nominees and a record shall be kept of all documents sealed.

The Common Seal of the Council is the official seal used to

authenticate official council documentation. As provided for

in Part 3 (Rules Governing how the Council Operates) the

Common Seal of the Council may be affixed by physical

means It (and the necessary device for so doing will be kept

in a safe place in the custody of the Director of Legal and

Governance) or by electronic means authorised by the

Director of Legal and Governance. A decision of the Council,

or of any part of it, will be sufficient authority for sealing any

document necessary to give effect to the decision. The

Common Seal will be affixed to those documents which in

the opinion of the Director of Legal and Governance should

be sealed. The affixing of the Common Seal will be attested

to by either the Chief Executive, Chief Finance Officer, the

Director of Legal and Governance or their duly authorised

nominees and a record shall be kept of all documents

sealed.

Part 3

Section 1

- Council

and

Committe

es

Procedur

e Rules

25.1

p.128

Sealing of

Documents and

Authentication

25.1 The Director of Legal and Governance will keep the Common Seal of the Council in a safe place.

25.2 The Common Seal of the Council may be

affixed on any document and attested to by the Chief Executive, Director of Legal and Governance or their duly authorised nominees and a record shall be kept of all documents so sealed.

25.1 The Director of Legal and Governance will be

responsible for the safe-keeping and secure

administration of the Common Seal of the Council in a

safe place.

25.2 The Common Seal of the Council may be affixed either

by physical means or by such electronic means as the

Director of Legal and Governance may from time to time

authorise. References in this Rule and elsewhere in

the Constitution to the Common Seal (or the Seal) of the

Council and to the sealing of documents shall be taken

to refer to the official seal and any accompanying

attesting signatures as being affixed either by physical

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means, or by the electronic means provided for in this

Rule.

Part 2

How the

Council

Makes

Decision

s,

Section 4

Scheme

of

Delegatio

n

Scheme of

Delegation to

Officers

N/A

ix. To the extent permitted by law, any function may be

exercised by the Head of Paid Service notwithstanding

its delegation to the Cabinet, Cabinet Member or

another Director where, in the opinion of the Head of

Paid Service, it is necessary and expedient in the

circumstances to do so and in consultation with the

Leader of the Council.

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Agreed in year amendments made by the Monitoring Officer (Part A)

(updated version)

All changes resulting from the senior management restructure which have been approved by the Director of Legal and Governance will be ratified

by Council. These include job title changes and are further specified at p64, paragraph 10a and 10b of the Constitution. Proposed changes

deemed more substantial are listed below.

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LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

COMMITTEES & SUB-COMMITTEES: MEMBERSHIPS

2020/2021

April 2020

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Cabinet

Councillor Portfolio

Councillor Jack Hopkins Leader of the Council

Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing

and Homelessness

Councillor Claire Holland Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Sustainable

Transport, Environment and Clean Air (statutory

Deputy Leader 2020-21)

Councillor Andy Wilson Cabinet Member for Finance and Performance

Councillor Jacqui Dyer Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and Community

Safety

Councillor Ed Davie Cabinet Member for Children and Young People

Councillor Matthew Bennett Cabinet Member for Planning, Investment and New

Homes

Councillor Sonia Winifred Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture

Councillor Jim Dickson and Danny Adilypour Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care

Councillor Donatus Anyanwu Cabinet Member for Voluntary Sector and Leisure

* Job share.

This appointment will be shared in the next municipal year, where each councillor will be in post for

approx. 6 months on a consecutive basis. The first appointment is to run from 22 April 2020 until 30

November 2020 and the second appointment is to run from 1st December 2020 to the next AGM

currently scheduled for April 2021.

Cabinet Bodies

Fostering and Adoption Panel

One member (Labour): Councillor Jon Davies

Corporate Parenting Board

Seven members (Labour): Councillor Ed Davie (Chair)

Councillor Joe Corry-Roake

Councillor Pauline George

Councillor Jon Davies

Councillor Marcia Cameron

Councillor Mary Atkins

Councillor Mahamed Hashi

Substitutes: Councillor Jane Pickard


Observer: Councillor Lucy Caldicott

Councillor Nicole Griffiths (Green)

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Equality Impact Assessment Panel

Nine Members (Labour): Councillor Martin Tiedemann

Councillor Christopher Wellbelove

Councillor Irfan Mohammed


Councillor Sonia Winifred (Chair)

Councillor Mohamed Jaser

Councillor Malcolm Clark

Councillor Anna Birley


Substitutes Councillor Maria Kay

Others: Director of Legal and Governance

Head of Strategy and Equalities

One representative from Trade Unions Committee

Homes for Lambeth - Ownership and Stewardship Panel

Four members (Labour): Councillor Matthew Bennett

Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite


Councillor Iain Simpson

Other Cabinet members will attend from time to time. The Chair may invite other Councillors and

individuals external to the Council to attend on occasion.

Secure Accommodation Panel

One member (Labour): Councillor Jenny Brathwaite

Virtual School Management Board

One member (Labour): Councillor Dr Mahamed Hashi

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Regulatory Committees

Appointments Committee

Five councillors who must include at least one member of the Cabinet to be determined as and when the

need arises:

Four members (Labour): TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

One member (Green): Councillor Nicole Griffiths

Appointments Sub-Committee

Five members who must include at least one member of the Cabinet to be determined as and when the

need arises:


TBC

TBC

TBC


Corporate Committee

Five councillors, plus up to two non-voting co-opted members. The Committee Chair must not be a

Cabinet Member.

Four members (Labour): Councillor Adrian Garden (Chair)



Councillor Peter Ely

One member (Green): Councillor Scott Ainslie

Substitutes (Labour): Councillor Martin Tiedemann



Councillor Linda Bray

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Licensing Committee

Nine members (Labour): Councillor Fred Cowell (Chair)

Councillor Martin Tiedemann

Councillor Linda Bray

Councillor Emma Nye

Councillor Irfan Mohammed

Councillor Rezina Chowdhury

Councillor Ibrahim Dogus

Councillor Josh Lindsey


One member (Green): Councillor Becca Thackray

Substitutes (Labour): Councillor John Kazantzis

Councillor Jen Mosley

Councillor Matthew Bennett

Councillor Andy Wilson

Councillor Danny Adilypour

Councillor Donatus Anyanwu

Councillor Claire Holland

Councillor Jon Davies

Councillor Liz Atkins


Councillor Tim Windle

Licensing Sub-Committee

Three councillors are to be drawn from Licensing Committee, with party allocation to be determined on

each occasion.

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Planning Applications Committee

Six members (Labour): Councillor Clair Wilcox (Chair)

Councillor Scarlett O’Hara

Councillor Joanne Simpson

Councillor Jess Leigh

Councillor Mohammed Seedat

Councillor Ben Kind

One member (Green): Councillor Becca Thackray

Ten Substitutes (Labour):

Councillor Nigel Haselden


Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite

Councillor Sonia Winifred

Councillor Liz Atkins

Councillor Marianna Masters




Councillor Tim Windle

Other Committees

Health and Wellbeing Board

Four members (Labour): Councillor Jim Dickson (Chair)

Councillor Ed Davie

Councillor Danny Adilypour

Councillor Sonia Winifred

Two Substitutes (Labour): Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite

Councillor Jacqui Dyer


Officers: Strategic Director Adults and Health

Strategic Director for Children’s Services

Director of Public Health

Note: Other representatives are appointed by the other constituent organisations:

• South East London CCG

• National Commissioning Board;

• King’s Health Partners; and,

• Lambeth Healthwatch.

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Investigating Committee

Three members (Labour): TBC

TBC

TBC

Three councillors, which must also include at least one member of the Cabinet.

Pensions Board

Two members (Labour): Councillor Linda Bray (Chair)

Councillor Ibrahim Dogus

One member (Green) Councillor Scott Ainslie

One substitute (Labour): Councillor Kevin Craig

One staff representative: Glenis Williamson

One pensioner representative: Toyin Laguda

One Trade Union representative: Ian Fall

Note: Only the Trade Union representative and Elected Members may send substitutes. Substitutes will

be required to undertake the same training as other members.

Pensions Committee

Four members (Labour): Councillor Anna Birley (Chair)


Councillor Peter Ely


One member (Green): Councillor Peter Elliott

One staff representative: Shankar Siva Ananthan

One pensioner representative: Desmond Farry

One Trade Union representative: Peter Woodward

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Standards Committee


TBC

TBC

TBC

Two substitutes (Labour): TBC

TBC


Independent Co-opted members: Christopher Braun

(Up to six (non-voting) Nikki Renken

Vacant

Vacant

Vacant

Vacant

Standards (Hearings) Sub-Committee

Three councillors, noting that the rules on proportionality do not apply.

Better Placed Joint Committee with Lewisham and Southwark

Leader of the Council: Councillor Jack Hopkins

One Substitute: Councillor Jacqui Dyer

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Overview & Scrutiny Committee

Chair: Councillor Liz Atkins

Vice-chair: Councillor Mary Atkins

Vice-chair: Councillor Marianna Masters

Labour members: Councillor Lucy Caldicott

Councillor Stephen Donnelly

Councillor Josh Lindsay

Councillor Joanna Reynolds

Green Member: (one member) Councillor Jonathan Bartley

Conservative Member: (one member) Councillor Tim Briggs

Subs: Labour: Councillor Irfan Mohammed

Councillor Scarlett O’Hara


Councillor Joe Corry-Roake

Councillor Jess Leigh

Two Church Representatives: Lynette Murphy-O’Dwyer (Southwark Roman

Catholic Schools Commission)

Frank Roberts (Southwark Church of England

Diocesan Board of Education)

Two Parent Governor Representatives: Baboucarr Jallow

Simon Taylor

Children’s Services Scrutiny Sub-Committee

Five Members (Labour):

Councillor Lucy Caldicott (Chair)


Councillor Mohamed Jaser

Councillor Jane Pickard


One Member (Green): Councillor Nicole Griffiths

Two Church representatives: Lynette Murphy-O’Dwyer (Southwark Roman

Catholic Schools Commission)

Frank Roberts (Southwark Church of England

Diocesan Board of Education)

Two Parent Governor Representatives: Baboucarr Jallow

Simon Taylor

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The Council's representatives on other bodies and outside organisations

April 2020

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Organisation Number

Allocated Representative(s)

Date

Appointed

Date Term

Ends

Black Cultural Archives 6* Lab (1) Councillor Sonia Winifred

Councillor (Sub) Jacqui Dyer

April 2020 April 2021

Black Prince Trust Lab (1) Cllr Donatus Anyanwu April 2020 April 2021

Brockwell Park Partnership Board Lab (2) Cllr Marcia Cameron

Cllr Fred Cowell


Children and Families Strategic Partnership Lab (1) Cllr Ed Davie April 2020 April 2021

Clapham Common Management Advisory

Committee 7*

Lab (2)

Cllr Linda Bray

Cllr Nigel Haselden


Clapham Park Committee 5* Lab (1) Cllr Stephen Donnelly April 2020 April 2021

Clapham Park Project Lab (1) Cllr Stephen Donnelly April 2020 April 2021

Groundwork: Local Authority Member’s Board Lab (1) Cllr Sonia Winifred April 2020 April 2021

Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust 5* Lab (1) Cllr Tim Windle April 2020 April 2021

Homes for Lambeth Board Lab (1)

Cllr David Amos

Four Officers TBC


Jubilee Gardens Trust Lab (1) Cllr Kevin Craig April 2020 April 2021

King’s College Hospital Trust Lab (1) Cllr Jim Dickson April 2020 April 2021

Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group – Governing

Body 1 Officer Fiona Connolly / Andrew Eyres (TBC)


Lambeth First (LSP): Safer Lambeth Partnership

Commissioning Group

(to be reviewed, may stand down)

5 Officers TBC


Lambeth First (LSP): Safer Lambeth Partnership

Executive 5*

Lab (2)

Green (1)

(observer)

Cllr Jacqui Dyer

Cllr Mahamed Hashi

Cllr Becca Thackray


Lambeth Food Partnership Lab (1) Cllr Malcolm Clark April 2020 April 2021

Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board

Lab (2)

Green (1)

Officers (7)

Cllr Jim Dickson

Cllr Danny Adilypour

Cllr Becca Thackray

Seven officer TBC


Lambeth Safeguarding Children’s Board(LSCB) Lab (1) Cllr Ed Davie April 2020 April 2021

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South Bank Colleges Lab (1) Cllr Jacqui Dyer April 2020 April 2021

Landlord Forum 7* Lab (1) Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite April 2020 April 2021

Larkhall Park Partnership Board Lab (2) Cllr Andy Wilson and Cllr Mohamed Jaser April 2020 April 2021

LHC Joint Committee Lab (2) Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite



Local Government Association (LGA): General

Assembly 4*

Lab (4)

(5 votes)

(2 votes) – Cllr Jack Hopkins

(2 votes) - Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite

(1 vote) – Cllr Claire Holland


London Councils – Greater London Provincial

Council

Lab (1)

Plus Deputy

Cllr Andy Wilson

Cllr Iain Simpson


London Councils: Transport & Environment

Committee

Lab (1)

Plus Deputy

Cllr Claire Holland

Cllr Nigel Haselden


London Youth Games 6* Lab (1) Cllr Jess Leigh April 2020 April 2021

Myatt's Field Centre Community Association Lab (1) April 2020 April 2021

Newable Lab (1) Cllr Jack Hopkins April 2020 April 2021

Nine Elms Vauxhall Strategy Board Lab (2)

Plus Deputy

Cllr David Amos

Cllr Jack Hopkins



Nine Elms Vauxhall Executive Committee Lab (1) Cllr Jack Hopkins April 2020 April 2021

Reserve Forces & Cadet Association for Greater

London 6* Lab (1) Cllr Jess Leigh


Schools Forum Lab (1) Cllr Ed Davie April 2020 April 2021

Sir Walter St. John's Educational Charity 6* Lab (2) Cllr Linda Bray

Cllr Christopher Wellbelove


**South Bank Partnership 5* Lab (3)

Cllr Claire Holland


Cllr Sonia Winifred


South London & Maudsley Hospital NHS Foundation

Trust –Council of Governors 5* Lab (1) Cllr Danny Adilypour


South London Relief in Sickness Fund 6*

Lab (1)

Green (1)

Cllr Linda Bray

Cllr Jonathan Bartley


Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological Excavation

Committee 6* Green (1) Cllr Becca Thackray


Springfield Partners Board 5* Lab (2) Cllr Tim Windle

Cllr Tina Valcarcel


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Standing Advisory Committee for Religious

Education 7* Lab (2)

Cllr Pauline George

Cllr Martin Tiedemann


Streatham Darby & Joan Club 6* Lab (1) Cllr Liz Atkins check April 2020 April 2021

SW9 Community Housing 6* Lab (1) Cllr Josh Lindsey April 2020 April 2021

Vauxhall One Lab (1) Cllr Claire Holland April 2020 April 2021

Walcott Foundation

Lab (2)

Cllr Rezina Chowdhury

Cllr Donatus Anyanwu


WATMOS Lab (1) Cllr David Amos


We Are Waterloo Lab (1) Cllr Ibrahim Dogus


West Norwood Cemetery Advisory Group 5*

Lab (1)

Plus Sub

Green (1)

Cllr Peter Ely

(Cllr Fred Cowell)

Cllr Peter Elliott


West Norwood Cemetery Scheme of Management

Committee 5*

Lab (3)

Green (1)

Cllr Peter Ely

Cllr Fred Cowell

Cllr Sonia Winifred

Cllr Peter Elliott


West Norwood Cemetery Strategic Partnership

Board Lab (2)

Cllr Sonia Winifred

Cllr Fred Cowell


Western Riverside Environmental Fund 3* Lab (1) Cllr Malcolm Clark April 2020 April 2021

Western Riverside Sub Committee (Accounts) Lab (1) Cllr Tim Windle April 2020 April 2021

Western Riverside Waste Authority 3* Lab (2) Cllr Jackie Meldrum

Cllr Claire Holland


Young Vic Theatre Company (The) 6* Lab (1) Cllr Sonia Winifred April 2020 April 2021

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(2) Appointments to be approved by Cabinet & Council or Council only.

Organisation Number

Allocated Representative(s) Date Appointed

Date Term

Ends

London Councils - Grants Committee 1* Lab (1) Councillor Donatus Anyanwu

Councillor (sub) Andy Wilson


London Councils - Greater London Employers

Forum Lab (1)

Councillor Andy Wilson

Councillor (Sub) Jacqui Dyer


London Councils - Leaders' Committee 1* Lab (1) Councillor Jack Hopkins

Councillor (Deputy) Claire Holland


London Boroughs Pensions CIV Joint

Committee (1) Lab (1)

Councillor Anna Birley

Councillor (Sub) Iain Simpson


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Note: All appointments must be made by either the Council or Cabinet except bodies with footnote 1 which need the agreement

of both the Council and the Cabinet.

(1) Joint Committees - carrying out both executive and non-executive delegated functions

Council will be asked to appoint the Council’s representatives; these appointments also need the agreement of the Leader of the Council;

where one appointment only is made, that member may or may not be a Cabinet member. Political balance rules apply to appointments where

more than one appointment is made; and,

the appointed members need not be Cabinet Members (for various reasons).

(2) Joint Committees - carrying out non- executive delegated functions

Council will be asked to appoint the Council’s representatives;

political balance rules apply to appointments where more than one appointment is made; and,

the appointed members need not be Cabinet Members.

(3) Joint Committees - carrying out executive delegated functions

Cabinet will be asked to consider whether these existing arrangements should continue and to appoint the Council’s representatives;

political balance rules do not apply; and,

the appointed members need not be Cabinet Members (for various reasons); for the *Upper Norwood Joint Library, any non-Cabinet members

must represent Gipsy Hill, Knights Hill or Thurlow Park wards. Discussions are ongoing with Croydon about the wording of the Constitution on

the appointment of representatives (see Cabinet: 21.06.10).

(4) Joint arrangements - advisory

Cabinet will be asked to appoint the Council’s representatives to these bodies carrying out executive functions;



(5) Outside bodies in statutory sector and companies operating on behalf of the Council


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political balance rules do not apply. The appointed members need not be Cabinet Members (for various reasons); and,

**these bodies (South Bank Partnership and St. Martin's Estate Board) have some requirement as to the inclusion of members from the ward.

(6) Outside bodies in voluntary sector - charities, voluntary organisations, etc.




(7) Council etc. bodies

Cabinet will be asked to appoint the Council’s representatives to these bodies carrying out executive functions; and,


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Calendar of meetings 2020 – 2021

Meeting/start time

April 20

May 20

June 20 July 20 Aug 20 Sept 20 Oct 20 Nov 20 Dec 20 Jan 21 Feb 21 Mar 21 Apr 21 May 21

Council 7.00

22 AGM

20

15 14 20 24 21 MM 19

Cabinet, THB-06 5.00

11

15 20 14 19 30 14 8 15 10

Planning Applications Committee

7.00

21

12

2, 23

14 4 8, 22 13 3, 24 15 19 23 9, 30 20 18

Licensing Sub-Committee

7.00

2, 16, 28

14

1*, 9, 25 7, 17*, 23 20 10, 18*, 24 6, 12*, 22 3, 17, 27* 10, 17 12, 21 2, 11, 26* 2, 18, 30 8, 20, 29 11, 27

Corporate Committee 5.00

14

22 17 12 21 25 20

Pensions Board 6.30

22 30 25 24

Pensions Committee 6.30

8 16 11 10

Standards Committee

Overview & Scrutiny Committee 7.00 – 9.00

19

9 23

18

3 23 26

Health and Wellbeing Board 6.00

30

2 15 11 29

Children’s Services Scrutiny Sub

7.00

18 10 27 16

Other meetings

April 20

May 20

June 20

July 20 Aug 20 Sept 20 Oct 20 Nov 20 Dec 20 Jan 21 Feb 21 Mar 21 Apr 21 May 21

West Norwood Cemetery AG

5.30

1

24 21 27 21

West Norwood Cemetery SOMC

5.30

29

22 11 10 12

Corporate Parenting Board 6.00

29

24 9 17 10 28

Lambeth Together Strategic Board

13.00

22

17

23 18 20 24

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Safer Lambeth Partnership

Commissioning Group 9.00

Safer Lambeth Partnership Executive

2.00

23

16 15 28 22

Internal meetings

April 20

May 20

June 20

July 20 Aug 20 Sept 19 Oct 20 Nov 20 Dec 20 Jan 21 Feb 21 Mar 21 Apr 21 May 21

Growth and Investment Panel 16.00

8, 22

6, 20 3, 17 1, 15, 29 12

JSF 3.00

2

4 3 5 14 11 13

Meetings that are underlined were agreed at last year’s AGM and are listed just for completeness

Licensing meetings with a * after are held in the daytime

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Covid-19 Governance Arrangements

Remote Council Meetings

Following the Coronavirus Act 2020 we have been eagerly awaiting regulations made under section 78

to weave some flexibility into the meetings requirements so that local government decision-making (and

the attendant openness requirements) does not stop during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and

Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 came into effect on 4 April

and exercise the s.78 powers providing for remote attendance of meetings and give authorities flexibility

to determine how to exercise those arrangements.

These are temporary provisions and can apply only in relation to local authority meetings required to be

held, or held, before 7 May 2021.

Remote Meetings

The key headline is that remote attendance is now permitted and entirely electronic meetings (video

conference, live webcast, live interactive streaming, etc) will be capable of constituting a validly held

meeting where the authority can make decisions – at Council, Cabinet, committee and all other levels.

The Regulations came into force on 4 April 2020.

The law on local authority meetings has always previously been interpreted to have required that

meetings must be in person and where attendees are in the same physical "place" (there is different

legislation for Wales). The Regulations state that such "place" may now be understood to include

"electronic, digital or virtual locations such as internet locations, web addresses or conference call

telephone numbers".

The methods by which the public can now have access to the meetings include (but are not limited to)

video conferencing, live webcast and live interactive streaming. The Regulations are not prescriptive as

to the specific platform for meetings so long as there is video and/or audio capabilities, but it is important

to note that the public may need capability to participate in the meeting also.

Members will be reassured that their remote attendance at a meeting is sufficient to avoid any threat of

disqualification under the ‘six months rule’ in s.85 of the LGA 1972. Democratic Services will be

approaching all members who are approaching the six-month period to ensure that they can attend a

meeting of the Council within the necessary time period.

Notice and Publicity for meetings

The authority may determine when they hold any meetings and alter the frequency, move or cancel any

such meetings without further notice. This provides flexibility as to when meetings are held and

seemingly gives authorities broad discretion with the timetable.

What is not altered are the prior publication requirements, the ‘five clear days’, in respect of agendas and

reports for committee or cabinet meetings and on the Forward Plan for executive key decisions. This

was not the Government’s intention we believe and is an omission. The objective was to allow meetings

to take place during the crisis with no advance notice or publication requirements whatsoever to allow for

maximum flexibility during the crisis. The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

(MHCLG) are urgently looking into this by making an amendment to the Regulations.

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Notice of the meeting and availability of documents for any meeting can now be on the authority's

website only and we do not have to provide printed copies at the Council’s offices.

Running of the meeting

These changes alter existing legislative provisions and an authority’s standing orders. They provide a

broad framework only, however, and authorities are expressly empowered to make further provision in

standing orders about the local specifics on remote attendance at meetings regarding, for instance,

voting, member and public access to documents; and remote access of public and press to a local

authority meeting to enable their attendance or participation.

We are working ourselves and with a national group of the Local Government Association (LGA),

MHCLG and obtaining guidance from our professional bodies, Lawyers in Local Government (LLG) and

Association of Democratic Services Officers (ADSO), on how we might best resource remote meetings

and considering the methods by which the Authority could conduct meetings.

We will need to ensure that there is suitable access to the remote meetings to Members and members of

the public (where public access is not lawfully excluded) and the requirements that the public attendees

be able to hear and see the meeting as well as be heard and, where practicable, be seen themselves.

Democratic Services and ICT have now tested Microsoft Teams software for public broadcasting, and

this has been successful. We are continuing to explore other means by which virtual meetings could be

conducted and sharing information with other local authorities to ensure we use the best available

technology to conduct virtual meetings which is adequately secure and user friendly.

We will also draw up a protocol for remote meetings and, if necessary, in due course make use of

temporary standing order changes to get the meetings running as smoothly as possible. The national

group is also looking at LGA webinar training for members, officers and Chairs.

Timetable of Meetings

In terms of meetings and a timetable, these are the considerations.

Licensing and Planning Applications Committee

These are committees and panels that deal with individual civil liberties and for which there are

limitations on delegation to officers even during an emergency. We would recommend that these

meetings, even if for reduced business, must be up and running remotely to deal with any essential

business and we have made this work officers’ priority. Officers are currently testing out the system with

a view to holding a mock virtual planning applications committee on 21 April with a view to the first virtual

PAC taking place in May.

Cabinet

It is envisaged that the next Cabinet meeting will take place on 11 May 2020 to deal with any essential

Cabinet business. In the meantime:

Any ‘business as usual decisions’ are currently being made as single member decisions and are

published as normal.

Other decisions that are related to the Covid-19 outbreak, that might otherwise have been made by

Cabinet or an individual cabinet member, are being made by the Head of Paid Service through the

contingency/emergency planning process following a delegation from the Leader to the Head of

Paid Service. This involves consultation with the Leader of the Council but remains an officer

decision, so is produced and published in that form.

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How and when this might change to more Cabinet meeting and Cabinet Member decision-making is a

matter for the Leader of the Council to determine in consultation with the Head of Paid Service.

Annual Meeting of Council

Although the Regulations have removed the need to hold an AGM this year, the Council is proposing to

hold its AGM as planned on the 22 April through the Microsoft Teams platform. This will enable the

Council to appoint the new Mayor and Deputy Mayor and make appointments to its Committees and

Outside Bodies. Full details of the arrangements for the AGM will be discussed with Group Leaders,

Whips and the Mayor; and we will be providing training and issuing guidance for Members in advance of

the meeting.

Overview and Scrutiny

We are currently looking how best to facilitate the work of Overview and Scrutiny.

Other meetings

Corporate Committee and the Health and Wellbeing Board may have to meet for any essential items of

business but are otherwise being consulted on issues taken under delegated authority that would

normally come under their remit and consideration at formal meetings.

Alison McKane Wayne Chandai

Director of Legal and Governance Head of the Chief Executive’s Office and

Democratic Services Manager

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