Agenda and minutes

The Chair welcomed all present to the meeting and brief introductions were made before the meeting went into the workshop session

7:00 pm COMMUNITY BUSINESS

Councillor Roger Harington, Inner East Community Committee Health and Wellbeing Champion will introduce a report on issues relating to social isolation within the inner east Leeds locality as the basis for discussions during the workshop. Representatives of Leeds Poverty Truth Challenge will provide testimonials to the meeting

At the conclusion of the workshop, it is expected that the meeting will take a short break

Councillor Roger Harington, Inner East Community Committee Health and Wellbeing Champion, introduced a report on issues around mental health and social isolation, presented as the basis for informal workshop discussions, the intention being for the matters discussed to inform future work to be undertaken and supported by the CC to tackle the issues.

Andrew Grinnell of Leeds Poverty Truth Challenge briefly outlined the work of the organisation and introduced Claharn and Mary to the meeting who provided testimony of their personal experiences of social isolation and mental health issues.

Dr Manjit Purewal, Leeds North Clinical Commissioning Group addressed the meeting, providing a General Practice perspective of the issues. Finally Lucy Jackson, Consultant in Public Health, highlighted funding streams available and that the discussions could be used to formulate schemes to tackle mental health and social isolation

RESOLVED - That the contents of the discussions be noted and that the priorities identified during the workshop be reported back to the next meeting and used to inform the future work of both the CC and partners on measures to improve community mental health and experiences of service provision in Inner East Leeds. The findings would also be reported on the CCs social media pages

8:15 pm FORMAL BUSINESS

To consider any appeals in accordance with Procedure Rule 15.2 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules (in the event of an Appeal the press and public will be excluded)

(*In accordance with Procedure Rule 15.2, written notice of an appeal must be received by the Head of Governance Services at least 24 hours before the meeting)

There were no appeals against the refusal of inspection of documents.

1  To highlight reports or appendices which officers have identified as containing exempt information, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

2  To consider whether or not to accept the officers recommendation in respect of the above information.

3  If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-

  RESOLVED – That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following parts of the agenda designated as containing exempt information on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information, as follows:-

The agenda contained no exempt information.

To identify items which have been admitted to the agenda by the Chair for consideration

(The special circumstances shall be specified in the minutes)

There were no late items of business

To disclose or draw attention to any disclosable pecuniary interests for the purposes of Section 31 of the Localism Act 2011 and paragraphs 13-18 of the Members’ Code of Conduct. 

No declarations of disclosable interests were made.

To receive any apologies for absence

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors A Hussain and V Morgan

In accordance with Paragraphs 4:16 and 4:17 of the Community Committee Procedure Rules, at the discretion of the Chair a period of up to 10 minutes may be allocated at each ordinary meeting for members of the public to make representations or to ask questions on matters within the terms of reference of the Community Committee. This period of time may be extended at the discretion of the Chair. No member of the public shall speak for more than three minutes in the Open Forum, except by permission of the Chair

No matters were raised under the Open Forum

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the previous formal meeting held 9^th October 2014

RESOLVED - That the minutes of the last meeting held 9th October 2014 be agreed as a correct record

To consider any matters arising from the minutes

Minute 27 – Area Update – In response to a query on the proposed Inner East CC webpage for young people, it was reported that input from Breeze was still awaited in order that relevant information and links could be incorporated. Additionally, comments made by attendees of the “re-engaging with young people” workshop had been reported to and discussed by the Scrutiny Board (Sustainable Economy and Culture). It was agreed that a full update would be provided to the next CC meeting following further conversations with Breeze.

To consider the report of the East North East Area Leader providing a brief update on the work programme of Inner East Community Committee

(Time – 10 minutes)

Andy Birkbeck, Area Officer, presented the report which included a schedule of the comments made during the workshop session held on 9th October 2014. The report highlighted the following matters:

·  the work undertaken arising from the workshop at the last CC meeting on the theme of "re-engaging with young people"

·  The work of CC’s advisory groups (environmental sub group, planning sub group)

·  The establishment of the Employment and Skills Board for the wider East North East Area

Members also noted that a report on the outcome of a review of the Wellbeing process would be presented to the next meeting

RESOLVED - That the contents of the report and the comments made by Members be noted

To consider the report of the East North East Area Leader setting out the Inner East Community Committee Wellbeing budget and including details of any new projects for consideration.

(Time – 5 minutes)

Andy Birkbeck, Area Officer, presented information on the Inner East CC budget, including funds still available to spend. The report sought consideration of applications to the Wellbeing Fund and made reference to the recommendations of the Elected Members arising from previous Ward Member briefings on the applications.

The report also looked ahead to 2015/16 and included proposals for neighbourhood management across the Inner East locality.

RESOLVED

a)  To note the contents of the report and the current budget information

b)  To note the comments of the Elected Members in respect of the applications received

c)  That the following be agreed in respect of applications to the Wellbeing Revenue Fund:

d)  That the following be agreed in respect of applications to the Wellbeing Capital Fund:

e)  That the decisions made by officers under delegated authority since the last meeting, as detailed in paragraph 29, be noted

f)  That approval be given to the proposal to ring fence the amount of £80,284 from the 2015/16 Wellbeing Revenue Budget for the programme of neighbourhood improvement activity across the Inner East priority neighbourhoods, subject to the approval of the Councils budget by Full Council in March 2015

To receive any feedback or comments from members of the public on the reports presented to this Community Committee meeting.

A time limit for this session has been set at 10 minutes.

Due to the number and nature of queries it will not be possible to provide responses immediately at the meeting. However, Members of the public shall receive a formal response, in writing, after the meeting

The Chair noted the opportunity for members of the public to feedback comments on the reports presented during the formal part of the CC meeting. No comments were made on this occasion.

To note the date and time of the next meeting as 19^th March 2015

To note the date of the next meeting as Thursday 19th March 2015. The start time and venue would be confirmed nearer the date.

Councillor Khan expressed his thanks to the representatives of the local community, partners and stakeholders who had attended the CC workshop and commented that this had been a successful meeting.