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If you require further information about this agenda please contact: Thomas Ribbits on 020 8583 2251 or [email protected]. BOROUGH COUNCIL A meeting of the Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow on Tuesday, 15th July 2014 at 7.30pm MEMBERSHIP The Mayor and Deputy Mayor All other Members of the Council AGENDA 1. Apologies for Absence and Declarations of Interest from Members 2. Announcements To receive announcements (if any) from the Mayor, Leader, Members of the Cabinet or the Head of Paid Service. As part of this agenda item, the Mayor will be leading a two minutes silence in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. 3. Minutes (Pages 1 - 44) To approve the minutes of the meetings held on 25th May 2014 and 10th June 2014 4. Petitions (Pages 45 - 51) Report by Councillor Theo Dennison, Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement 5. OFSTED Inspection of Services for Children in Need of Help and (Pages 52 - 106) Protection, Children Looked After and Care Leavers (CA454) Report of Councillor Tom Bruce, Cabinet Member for Education and Children’s Services 6. Vision 2020 - Right to Sight - Action Plan to Improve Services for (Pages 107 - Blind and Partially Sighted Residents in Hounslow 127) Report by Councillor Ajmer Grewal, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Inclusion 7. London Borough of Hounslow (Lionel Road South) - Compulsory (Pages 128 - Purchase Order (CPO) 2014 (REG220) 154) Report by Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration Please note that the appendices for this report are available to inspect in the online edition of this agenda only. They are not included in the paper version. 8. Treasury Management Annual Report 2013/14 (CR127) (Pages 155 - 163) Report by Councillor Theo Dennison, Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement 9. Appointment of Statutory Officer (Pages 164 - 167) Report of Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration 10. Appointments to Committees and Other Bodies Members are asked to make any appointments that are nominated at the meeting for the remainder of the municipal year and delegate authority to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, to make any adjustments necessary to ensure political proportionality where necessary. 11. Decisions Taken Under Urgency Arrangements (if any) The Council is asked to note the following uses of the urgency arrangements: Council and Cabinet Decisions Taken Under Urgency Arrangements: Council Urgency Process: Appointment of Statutory Officers (26th June 2014) Forward Plan Urgency Notices: Extension of Hounslow Homes Stores Management and Materials Supply Contract with Jewson (31st March 2014) Universal Infant Free School Meals Capital Funding (UFSM) (3rd April 2014) Redevelopment of Hartlands Travellers Site Additional Funding (16th April 2014) Borough Cemetery Urgent Path Upgrades (17th June 2014) Future Management of Housing Services Carried Out by Hounslow Homes (23rd June 2014) Questions from Members 12. Councillor Samantha Davies to ask Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration “Planning benefits granted by a local authority to a business which are above the de minimis financial threshold set by the European Commission will constitute State Aid. The Planning benefits granted to the Brentford Football Club and entered into this month by the Council are hugely above the financial threshold. Has the Leader/Council obtained the dispensation required by European law from the European Commission approving this State Aid? If not then the Compulsory Purchase Order Resolution before the Council appears to be invalid.” 13. Councillor Gerald McGregor to ask Councillor Amrit Mann, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment “Would the Deputy Leader lay out his approach to the Hounslow Highways contract and its current implementation?” 14. Councillor Sam Hearn to ask Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration “In light of recent newspaper comments could the Leader of the Council please reassure the residents of Hounslow that this administration remains committed to opposing a third runway at Heathrow?” Motions 15. Proposed by Councillor Peter Thompson and Seconded by Councillor Sheila O'Reilly “This Council welcomes the inclusion of “Citizen Engagement” in its Cabinet priorities and agrees that citizen engagement is key to any successful Democracy. It therefore agrees to introduce a “Question and Answer” mechanism for Cabinet, Borough Council, Overview and Scrutiny Committee and all Scrutiny Panel meetings, allowing residents the opportunity to question its elected representatives more fully and hold them to account than ever before within a maximum time frame of half an hour. This Council further agrees to implement a policy petition system similar to national Parliament whereby any Hounslow-related issue is debated at full Borough Council provided it meets a minimum signature threshold. This Council notes that both these initiatives are already up and running in Councils across the country and that they have proven successful and popular with local residents and more importantly, advanced citizen engagement and local Democracy for residents.” 16. Any Other Matters That the Mayor Considers Urgent 17. Date of Next Meeting The next meeting of the Council is scheduled for 16th September 2014 and will commence at 7.30pm in the Council Chamber DECLARING INTERESTS Committee members are reminded that if they have a personal interest in any matter being discussed at the meeting they must declare the interest and if the interest is also a prejudicial interest then they may not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter. Mary Harpley Chief Executive, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, TW3 4DN Published on 7th July 2014 AGENDA ENDS Agenda Item 3 At a meeting of the Borough Council held on Tuesday, 25th March 2014 at 7.30pm in the Council Chamber at the Hounslow Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow Present: The Mayor, Councillor Sachin Gupta (in the Chair) The Deputy Mayor, Councillor Corinna Smart Councillors: Mindu Bains, Felicity Barwood, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Mark Bowen, Tom Bruce, Ruth Cadbury, Peter Carey, John Chatt, Melvin Collins, Linda Davies, Samantha Davies, Theo Dennison, Ajmer Dhillon, Gopal Dhillon, Poonam Dhillon, Colin Ellar, Brad Fisher, Pamela Fisher, Mohinder Gill, Ajmer Grewal, Darshan Grewal, Pritam Grewal, Matt Harmer, Barbara Harris, Sam Hearn, David Hughes, Gillian Hutchison, Paul Jabbal, Gurmail Lal, Adrian Lee, Paul Lynch, Liz Mammatt, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Gerald McGregor, Andrew Morgan-Watts, Shantanu Rajawat, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, Barbara Reid, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Jagdish Sharma, Balvir Sond, Rebecca Stewart, Peter Thompson, John Todd, Beverley Williams and Allan Wilson. 1. Apologies for Absence, Other Announcements and Declarations of Interest from Members Apologies for Absence received from Councillors Colin Botterill, Steve Curran, Jason Ellar, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur and Peta Vaught Apologies for lateness were received from Councillors John Chatt, David Hughes, Pamela Fisher, Adrian Lee and Robert Oulds. There were no declarations of interest. 2. Announcements The Mayor invited Councillor Lily Bath, as Cabinet Member for Children’ Services, to address members. In doing so, Councillor Bath advised that she had three announcements to make. The first comprised the following statement: “Earlier this year, OFSTED (The Office for Standards in Education) carried out an inspection of our services for looked after-children and child protection. They spent four weeks carrying out the new single inspection by speaking with officers, Members, and young people themselves, and found that whilst children are being kept safe, and there are no serious issues, overall the services do require improvement to be rated as "good" in all the inspection categories. The report was published on Friday, and does recognise our strengths in a number of areas such as strong partnership working, children being kept safe from harm, having a stable workforce and the fact that children young people and their families value the support they get from the 1 local Authority and partners. There are, however, areas for improvement across all services, which we will be working to address over the next few months. These include improving our support for older children in care, and we are working to increase the training and employment opportunities available to them through expansion of apprenticeship schemes. Changes will be made to ensure protection plans are improved, and new initiatives that had not yet been embedded when OFSTED visited - such as the early help service and our new multi-agency support hub - will be monitored closely to make sure they are delivering the improvements we want to see. One area identified, where everyone in this chamber can make a difference, is the need for better oversight by scrutiny and our corporate parenting role. We all - Councillors and officers - can, and must do more to help the children and young people in our care, and I hope we can take this report as a timely reminder of our responsibilities and work together to make sure we are delivering the services and support the children in our care deserve.” Councillor Bath then advised that she had been pleased to attend