Issue - meetings

Update on Recommendations as outlined in the Peer Review Working Group Final Report March 2017

 

 

Meeting: 18/09/2018 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Skills) (Item 14)

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Report of the Head of Communities

Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Service Manager – Locality South that updated on recommendations as detailed in the Peer Review Working Group Final Report that was published in March 2017.

 

The table in paragraph 1 of the report detailed the progress made against each of the Working Group’s recommendations.

 

Members asked questions/raised issues on the following matters:-

 

·         The regional child exploitation pathway and the development of a referral mechanism

·         Differences between dealing with registered social landlords and private landlords in work undertaken to disrupt serious organised crime

·         The numbers of organised crime groups in the borough

·         The intervention and prevention programme “Get Away and Get Safe (GANGs)”

·         The information sharing agreement between partner agencies to combat serious organised crime and its compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations

·         An elected Member training session to be held on 18 October 2018 concerning child sexual exploitation   

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)

the report updating on recommendations as detailed in the Peer Review Working Group Final Report that was published in March 2017 be noted; and

 

(2)

the potential to have Members’ Briefing Session prior to Council be investigated on the intervention and prevention programme “Get Away and Get Safe (GANGs)”