Agenda and minutes
Communities and Equalities Scrutiny Committee - Tuesday, 25th May, 2021 10.00 am
Venue: Council Chamber, Level 2, Town Hall Extension. View directions
Contact: Rachel McKeon
Media
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To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 11 March 2021. Minutes: The Chair informed Members that the Committee would receive the report on the Peterloo Memorial at its next meeting on 22 June 2021.
Decision
To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 11 March 2021 as a correct record. |
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Community Safety Partnership Update Report of the Strategic Director (Neighbourhoods)
This report provides an update on the work of the Community Safety Partnership with particular focus on serious and organised crime, including gun crime and knife crime.
Additional documents: Minutes: The Committee received a report of the Strategic Director (Neighbourhoods) which provided an update on the work of the Community Safety Partnership with particular focus on serious and organised crime, including gun crime and knife crime.
Officers referred to the main points and themes within the report which included:
Damian Dallimore from the GMCA informed the Committee about his role, heading the Violence Reduction Programme for Greater Manchester, managing the Violence Reduction Unit, working as Partnership Lead for Challenger, the partnership approach to tackling serious and organised crime, and working closely with colleagues in Children’s Services on complex safeguarding. He highlighted the focus on early intervention, prevention and working with families to address the root causes of violence, and on partnership working and taking a community-led approach.
Detective Superintendent Jamie Daniels delivered a presentation on the current picture and activities to address firearms discharges and serious organised crime. The main points and themes within the presentation included:
Some of the key points that arose from the Committee’s discussions were:
The Community Safety Lead highlighted the importance of partnership working, particularly in relation to early intervention and prevention. She outlined the local partnership arrangements which were in place in each area, comprising of organisations such as GMP, different Council departments, housing providers and voluntary and community organisations, working together to solve problems in that area. She informed Members that the Community Safety Partnership worked across the whole city, bringing together the strategic leads from those organisations to ensure delivery of the strategy and that there were also strong links with the GMCA, working together and utilising good practice from across Greater Manchester.
The Community Safety Lead informed the Committee that tackling antisocial behaviour was a key priority for the Partnership and ... view the full minutes text for item 18. |
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Report of the Governance and Scrutiny Support Unit
This report provides the Committee with details of key decisions that fall within the Committee’s remit and an update on actions resulting from the Committee’s recommendations. The report alsoincludes the Committee’s work programme, which the Committee is asked to amend as appropriate and agree. Minutes: A report of the Governance and Scrutiny Support Unit was submitted. The overview report contained a list of key decisions yet to be taken within the Committee’s remit, responses to previous recommendations and the Committee’s work programme, which the Committee was asked to approve.
Decision
To note the report. |
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Exclusion of Press and Public The officers consider that the following item contains exempt information as provided for in the Local Government Access to Information Act and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. The Committee is recommended to agree the necessary resolutions excluding the public from the meeting during consideration of this item. Minutes: Decision
To exclude the public during consideration of the following item which involved consideration of exempt information relating to the financial or business affairs of particular persons and public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. |
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Scrutiny Committees' work on cross-cutting themes of the Our Manchester Strategy Report of the Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer
This report provides an overview of how cross-cutting themes in the Our Manchester Strategy – Forward to 2025 reset document are covered by the Council’s Scrutiny Committees during the 2021/22 municipal year.
The report is to form part of the Work Programming session at the rise of this meeting for Committee Members only. Minutes: The Committee considered the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer that provided an overview of how cross-cutting themes in the Our Manchester Strategy – Forward to 2025 reset document were to be covered by the scrutiny committees during the 2021/22 municipal year.
Decision
To note the report. |