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Agenda Reports Pack (Public) 13/12/2012, 18.15 Public Document Pack CORPORATE SERVICES Service Director Linda Fisher GOVERNANCE AND COMMITTEE SERVICES TEAM PO Box 15, Town Hall, Rochdale, OL16 1AB DX22831 ROCHDALE Tel: (01706) 647474 Fax: (01706) 924705 Website: www.rochdale.gov.uk To: All Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Enquiries to: Peter Thompson Committee e-mail: [email protected] Extension: 4715 Date: 5th December 2012 Dear Councillor OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE You are requested to attend the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to be held in Committee Rooms 1 and 2 at Rochdale Town Hall on 13 th December 2012 commencing at 6.15 pm. The agenda and supporting papers are attached. If you require advice on any agenda item involving a possible Declaration of Interest which could affect your right to speak and/or vote, please contact staff in the Governance and Committee Services Team at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting. Yours faithfully Linda Fisher Service Director Overview and Scrutiny Committee Membership 2012/13:- Councillor Daalat Ali Councillor Malcolm Boriss Councillor Robert Clegg Councillor Karen Danczuk Councillor Neil Emmott Councillor Susan Emmott Councillor Pat Greenall Councillor Michael Holly Councillor Andy Kelly Councillor Liam O'Rourke Councillor Martin Rodgers ROCHDALE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE 13 th December 2012 at 6.15 pm Committee Rooms 1 and 2, Rochdale Town Hall A G E N D A Apologies for Absence 1. Declarations of Interest Members are requested to indicate at this stage any items on the agenda in which they intend to declare an interest. Members are reminded that, in accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and the Council's newly adopted Code of Conduct, they must declare the nature of any personal or discloseable pecuniary interest required of them and, in the case of any discloseable pecuniary interest withdraw from the meeting during consideration of the item, unless permitted otherwise within the Code of Conduct. 2. Minutes 1 - 4 To consider the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 20 th November 2012. 3. Financial Update 2012/13 5 - 50 4. Link4Life - Performance Management: Quarter 2 51 - 60 5. Rochdale Local Education Partnership (Inspired Spaces) Quarterly 61 - 74 Review 6. Middleton Technology School: Prescribed Alteration to remove Sixth 75 - 94 Form Provision 7. School Admission Arrangements 2012 Admission Round 95 - 120 8. Tenancy Strategy 2012 - 2015 121 - 141 9. Township Performance Indicator Reporting - 2nd Quarter 2012/13 142 - 143 Public Document Pack Agenda Item 2 OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE MINUTES OF MEETING Tuesday, 20 November 2012 PRESENT: Councillor Daalat Ali (in the Chair); Councillors Clegg, Danczuk, Neil Emmott, Susan Emmott, Greenall, Holly, O’Rourke and Martin Rodgers. OFFICERS: G. Rhodes-White (Interim Executive Director), C. Knowles (Interim Service Director – Targeted Services), I. Corbridge (Finance and Procurement Service), J. Staley (Customers and Communities Service), S. Blundell, J. Hodkinson, P. Jones and P. Thompson (Corporate Services). Also in Attendance: Councillors Darnbrough, Hussain, Martin, Mir and Stott; J. Searle (Rochdale Development Agency). Apologies for Absence: Councillors Boriss and Kelly. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 70 In accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and the Code of Conduct for Elected Members, Councillors Clegg and Martin Rodgers declared a disclosable pecuniary interest in respect of agenda item 3 “Township Funds 2012/2013 (Pennines) Called-in Business” and resigned from the Committee during the consideration and voting on this item, in order that they may address the Committee in relation to this agenda item, and to answer any questions thereon that Members of the Committee may have. Councillors Clegg and Martin Rodgers took no part in the determination of this agenda item. In accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and the Code of Conduct for Elected Members, Councillor Daalat Ali declared a personal (and non) discloseable pecuniary interest in respect of agenda item 3 “Township Funds 2012/2013 (Pennines) Called- in Business”. MINUTES 71 DECIDED – That the minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 1 st November 2012 be approved as a correct record. TOWNSHIP FUNDS 2012/2013 (PENNINES) - CALLED-IN BUSINESS 72 The Committee considered the report of the Service Director – Corporate Services which presented details of a decision by Pennines Township Delegated and Funding Sub-Committee on 26 th September 2012, that “£35,600 be approved from the Pennines Township Capital Fund for a scheme to reduce the width of the central reservation on Albert Royds Street outside numbers 55 to 14”, which had been called-in by Members of the Council. The decision was called-in by Councillors Brett and Martin Rodgers on the basis that there was no written information and just verbal reports available for Sub-Committee Members to consider at the meeting. Councillors Stott and Darnbrough had also called-in the decision, on the basis that there was insufficient information available to the Sub-Committee to make a decision, and that the matter should have been included in the Council’s Forward Plan. In considering the Service Director’s report, Members of the Committee heard representations from Councillor Clegg as the Chair of the Pennines Township Page 1 Delegated and Funding Sub-Committee, Councillors Martin Rodgers, Darnbrough and Stott the Members who had called-in the decision and from the author of the report which the Sub-Committee had considered on 26 th September 2012. DECIDED – that the matter be referred back to the Pennines Township Delegated and Funding Sub-Committee for further consideration at its next available meeting. SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN - SELF-ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT PLAN 73 The Interim Executive Director of Children’s Services reported on a self- assessment of the Council’s services for vulnerable children and the single integrated improvement plan. The report advised of an anticipated OFSTED inspection of Council services for vulnerable children which had subsequently commenced on 10 th November and which was due to be completed on 21 st November 2012. The recommendations contained in the submitted report were to advise of improvement arrangements and present a single improvement plan which brought together all recommended improvement activities within Targeted Services into one place. The self-assessment and improvement planning processes for inspected and other services formed part of the Council’s continuous improvement arrangements and help drive improvement across the Council. The approach taken with services for vulnerable children had been in line with this. The Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered the submitted report and improvement plan comprehensively, asking detailed questions of Interim Executive Director, her support staff and the Portfolio Holder for Children, Schools and Families with particular regard to safeguarding measures for children introduced in the light of child sexual exploitation cases ongoing in Rochdale. DECIDED – That (1) the self-assessment of services for vulnerable children be noted; (2) The single integrated improvement plan for services for vulnerable children be approved; (3) a report on progress on the improvement plan be reported to the Cabinet and the Overview and Scrutiny Committee March 2013. 1ST & 2ND QUARTER CORPORATE COMPLAINTS 2012/13 74 The Committee scrutinised a report of the Service Director - Corporate Services which provided Members with details of complaints received by Services during the 1 st and 2 nd Quarters of 2012/2013 (April to September). DECIDED – that the report be noted. SOCIAL CARE COMPLAINTS: 2ND QUARTER 2012/2013 75 The Committee scrutinised a report of the Service Director - Corporate Services which provided Members with details of complaints received by Adult and Children’s Social Care Services during the 2 nd Quarter 2012/2013. DECIDED – that the report be noted. CORPORATE HEALTH STAFFING INDICATORS: QUARTER 2 2012/13 76 The Committee scrutinised a report of the Service Director - Corporate Services (Head of Human Resources) which provided Members with a summary of the performance of Services against the Corporate Health Performance Indicators for staff in the 2 nd Quarter 2012/2013. Page 2 In considering the report a Member suggested that at future meetings the Service Director of those Services which have poor sickness records, or which display unusual patterns of sickness absences, be requested to attend this Committee to explain to Members what remedial action is being proposed to address the issue. DECIDED – That (1) the report be noted; (2) the Head of Human Resources be requested to arrange, as and when necessary, the attendance at future meetings of the Committee, when quarterly corporate health staffing are being considered, the Service Director of those Services which have poor sickness records, or which are displaying unusual patterns of sickness absences in order to explain to the Committee what remedial action is being proposed to address the issue. ROCHDALE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY - PERFORMANCE MONITORING REPORT 77 The Committee scrutinised a report of the Chief Executive of Rochdale Development Agency (RDA) that presented information on the RDA’s performance in delivering the agreed Business Plan objectives, priorities and targets over the first two quarters of 2012/2013 (April – June and July – September), together with information relating to the broader economic context.
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