Council and Democracy

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 2, Town Hall

Contact: Graham Ibberson  01246 345229

Items
No. Item

39.

Declarations of Members' and Officers' interests relating to items on the Agenda.

5.00pm to 5.05pm

Minutes:

No declarations of interest were received.

 

40.

Apologies for Absence

5.05pm to 5.10pm

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Kellman and Dyke.

41.

Local Government Act 1972 - Exclusion of Public

To move “That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act".

 

Part 2 (Non Public Information)

42.

Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing - Crime and Disorder Scrutiny

-      Report to follow

 

5.10pm to 5.50pm

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing introduced Shaun Morley as the Head of Community Safety and Regulatory Services and invited him to present the report to the Committee.

 

The purpose of the report was to provide a short overview as to the development of a new integrated partnership approach to managing anti-social behaviour (ASB) and update on the operational activity and development of Operation Blofeld.

 

Chesterfield Borough Council had developed an effective Community Safety Partnership (which included, Chesterfield Borough Council representatives, Derbyshire County Council, Police, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue, Health, Probation Service etc). 

 

The role of the partnership was to coordinate delivery of appropriate actions that would support the reduction of crime and anti-social behaviour in Chesterfield and contribute to the overall safety of Chesterfield residents, visitors and businesses.

 

Given this core function and the strong role that the community safety partnership plays in tackling anti-social behaviour and criminality, the partnership had been restructured to include a number of thematic groups.  Each of the thematic groups’ action plans would include key objectives, actions, and performance measures. The Community Safety Partnership would hold each thematic group accountable, and their progress would be reviewed on a quarterly basis.

 

It was noted that Chesterfield Borough Council was developing a new strategy to tackle ASB based on the principles of integrated multi-agency working, early intervention and prevention, proportionate enforcement, diversion, and effective engagement.  The new strategy would see an integrated approach to tackling ASB at a strategic, tactical and operational level with the Community Safety partnership setting the objectives and developing the Chesterfield Borough plan. This would then be driven and managed at a tactical level by a multi-agency officer group that will meet on a bi-weekly basis. Finally, an operational tasking group of officers would also meet bi-weekly to manage current and merging ASB issues and provide integrated plans to tackle those issues.

 

The new multi-agency structure would include Housing, Environmental Health, Community Safety, Licensing, DCC Social Care, Police and Fire Service.

 

The report detailed volumes and categories of ASB incidents across the Chesterfield Wards over the last 12 months.  Chesterfield Borough Council and partners would consistently and effectively collate and analyse this information and intelligence to understand the root causes of ASB issues and those involved or vulnerable to becoming involved in ASB.  Putting in place positive, joined-up problem-solving activity to bring long term solutions to ASB by seeking to prevent incidents arising in the first instance.  This activity would centre on evidence-based practice, in which we would proactively work alongside community organisations, educational establishments and statutory partners to tackle issues as soon as they arise, looking for local solutions and developing community resilience. We would therefore utilise a multi-agency problem solving approach as a means of delivering early intervention and prevention at a neighbourhood level.

 

The report also provided an update of enforcement actions carried out as part of Operation Blofeld.

 

It was anticipated that Chesterfield Borough Council’s new partnership approach to ASB would have a positive impact in the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 42.

43.

Local Government Act 1972 - Re-admission of the public

44.

Scrutiny Project Groups Progress Updates

5.50pm to 6.00pm

 

Minutes:

A new scrutiny project group to carry out task and finish reviews by the end of 2022/23 was to be set up to look at the CBC Lighting Strategy, which was presented to the committee on 3 February 2022.

 

Democratic Services were asked to issue a request to all members for volunteers to work on this project group.

 

RESOLVED –

 

That the action be noted.

 

45.

Scrutiny Monitoring pdf icon PDF 256 KB

6.00pm to 6.10pm

Minutes:

The Committee considered the scrutiny recommendations implementation monitoring schedule.

 

RESOLVED –

 

That the scrutiny monitoring schedule be noted.

 

46.

Forward Plan

Forward Plan of Key Decisions 1 April to 31 July 2022 to  available via the link below

 

https://chesterfield.moderngov.co.uk/mgListPlanItems.aspx?PlanId=136&RP=134

 

6.10pm to 6.15pm

Minutes:

The Committee considered the Forward Plan for the period 1 April 2022 to 31 July 2022.

 

Members highlighted the number of outdated items on the forward plan.

 

RESOLVED –

 

That it be noted that the committee expressed concerns over the timing of the items on the Forward Plan.

 

47.

Work Programme for the Community, Customer and Organisational Scrutiny Committee pdf icon PDF 128 KB

6.15pm to 6.20pm

Minutes:

The Committee considered the items on its work programme for 2021/22. It was confirmed that a new work programme was being drafted and that this would be presented at the next committee on 19 May 2022.

 

 

RESOLVED –

 

That the work programme be noted.

 

48.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 290 KB

6.20pm to 6.25pm

Minutes:

The Minutes of the meeting of the Community, Customer and Organisational Scrutiny Committee held on 3 February 2022 were presented.

 

A member raised a point regarding the Commercial Occupancy Rates and requested a single agenda item where members could air concerns around the Market Traders in the Market Hall.

 

RESOLVED –

 

1.   That the Minutes be approved as a correct record and by signed by the Chair.

2.   Democratic Services to arrange a further virtual meeting with Andy Bond to discuss the Market Hall.