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Full Council
10 Oct 2019 - 10:30
Scheduled
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Agenda

Standard Items
2 Apologies for Absence
3 Declarations of Interests by Members and Officers:- (see note below)
(a) Disclosable Pecuniary Interests
(b) Private Interests (pecuniary and non-pecuniary)
Public Items
4 Business carried over from the previous meeting:-

 

Motion Three from 11tth July 2019 meeting

 

On 10th June 2019, the BBC informed viewers that free TV licences for over 75’s will be scrapped for those not on pension credit.

 

This council recognises that this action will have a significant detrimental impact to some of our most vulnerable elderly residents across Nottinghamshire. 

 

This council resolves to write to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to ask him to consider the consequences of these actions and to request that they reconsider the 2015 decision to no longer fund TV licences for over 75’s.

 

This council further resolves to write to the BBC to request that they too reconsider their recent decision.

 

Councillor Alan Rhodes               Councillor Kate Foale


Motion Four from 11th July 2019 Meeting

 

This Council notes the crisis in Social Care and further notes the multiple delays to the green paper on Adult Social Care.  The green paper was first promised in the March 2017 budget as a route to a more secure and sustainable system – it has now been delayed numerous times – Ministers citing ‘Brexit’ as the main reason. 

 

The green paper aimed to confront two issues: chronic underfunding of the existing means-tested care system caused by the huge cuts in government funding to councils since 2010 and the urgent need to protect self-funding people outside the current system from catastrophic care costs.

 

This Council further notes:

 

(1) The proportion of the council’s budget spent on Adult Social Care in 2019/20 is 35p in every £1 of Council expenditure.  This amounts to £356 million pounds this financial year.  This is £11.9 million more than this County Council expected to raise in Council Tax this year. This is unsustainable.

 

(2) The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services recent statement that social care in England was adrift in a “sea of inertia” caused by years of budget cuts and that “The system is not only failing financially, it is failing people.”

 

(3) That this is causing significant pressure on the finances of Nottinghamshire County Council - becoming this Council’s single biggest expenditure.

 

(4) The importance of a reformed funding system to give Councils like Nottinghamshire the financial certainty to address the underlying problems.

 

(5) That delays to the green paper make it impossible for Councils like Nottinghamshire to plan ahead and deal with the biggest crisis we face.

 

(6) That the funding crisis, in particular the failure to publish the green paper caused by Brexit-related policy paralysis is putting untold Nottinghamshire residents at risk with un-met care needs.

 

This Council therefore resolves to instruct the Leaders of the Ashfield Independents, the Conservatives and Labour Parties on Nottinghamshire County Council to write to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care setting out the consequences of the Government’s failure to get to grip with funding social care, calls for emergency parachute payments to Councils, calls for a timetable for the publication of the green paper and to reiterate our call for this to be published as soon as possible so we can deal with the biggest catastrophe facing Nottinghamshire County Council.

 

Councillor Jason Zadrozny                     Councillor David Martin


5 Chairman's Business
a)    Presentation of Awards/Certificates (if any)
6 Constituency Issues (see note 4)
7a Presentation of Petitions (if any) (see note 5 below)
11 Questions
a)    Questions to Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire Authority

b)    Questions to Committee Chairmen
12 NOTICE OF MOTIONS
Motion One

 

This Council recognises the threat posed by Child Criminal Exploitation, in particular ‘County Lines’ drug dealing, where gangs from city areas have expanded their operations into towns and villages by using violence, coercion or manipulation to recruit vulnerable children and young people to carry and sell drugs. 

 

This Council supports the excellent work being undertaken by our officers in partnership with other organisations, including the Police, to raise awareness of and combat Child Criminal Exploitation so that young people at risk are identified, supported and protected.  These measures include:-

 

  • support to, and information sharing with, schools;
  • multi-agency training and awareness raising;
  • targeted youth work and youth crime prevention;
  • monthly Serious Youth Violence & Criminal Exploitation Panels;
  • place-based safeguarding;
  • a Criminal Exploitation Steering Group; and
  • a Home Office-funded Violence Reduction Unit for Nottinghamshire
  • Such work already falls within the purview of many of our committees including Children and Young People, Adult Social Care and Public Health and Communities and Place, and this should continue.

 

This Council further resolves that reports will be brought to Policy Committee at appropriate intervals to provide an overview of these various elements of work and recommend, as required, any further strategic actions that may be necessary to tackle this issue, especially with regard to our youth services.

 

Councillor Tracey Taylor                         Councillor Tony Harper


Motion Two

 

This Council welcomes the recommendations agreed at Communities and Place Committee on 5 September 2019, approving further work to develop Electric Vehicle (EV) technology and encourage its use. This reflects the national drive to increase the use of EVs and recognises their role in achieving our local, regional, and national objectives for transport and the environment – particularly our statutory duty to improve air quality.

 

However, this Council also recognises the challenges that are present when rolling out new technology to countryside areas, and the additional work that is required to ensure that urban and rural communities’ have comparable access to such utilities.

 

This Council therefore instructs officers to undertake further work to examine the EV infrastructure currently available to rural communities, and how this could be enhanced to ensure that these communities are not left behind as this technology continues to advance.

 

This work will be fed back to Communities & Place Committee as part of its wider remit for the development of EV infrastructure.

 

Councillor Bruce Laughton                    Councillor John Cottee


13 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE
(if any)
Notes:-

(A)       For Councillors

 

(1)       Members will be informed of the date and time of their Group meeting for Council by their Group Researcher.

 

(2)       The Chairman has agreed that the Council will adjourn for lunch at their discretion.

 

(3)       (a)       Persons making a declaration of interest should have regard to the Code of Conduct and the Procedure Rules for Meetings of the Full Council.  Those declaring must indicate whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or a private interest and the reasons for the declaration.

 

            (b)       Any member or officer who declares a disclosable pecuniary interest in an item must withdraw from the meeting during discussion and voting upon it, unless a dispensation has been granted. Members or officers requiring clarification on whether to make a declaration of interest are invited to contact the Monitoring Officer or Democratic Services prior to the meeting.

 

            (c)        Declarations of interest will be recorded and included in the minutes of this meeting and it is therefore important that clear details are given by members and others in turn, to enable Democratic Services to record accurate information.

 

(4)       At any Full Council meeting except the annual meeting, a special meeting and the budget meeting, Members are given an opportunity to speak for up to three minutes on any issue which specifically relates to their division and is relevant to the services provided by the County Council. These speeches must relate specifically to the area the Member represents and should not be of a general nature.  They are constituency speeches and therefore must relate to constituency issues only.  This is an opportunity simply to air these issues in a Council meeting. It will not give rise to a debate on the issues or a question or answer session.  There is a maximum time limit of 30 minutes for this item.

 

(5)       Members are reminded that petitions can be presented from their seat with a 1 minute time limit set on introducing the petition.

 

(6)       Members’ attention is drawn to the questions put to the Leader of the Council and the Chairmen of the Committees and Place and Children and Young People’s Committees under paragraphs 33, 40 and 41 of the Procedure Rules, and the answers to which are included at the back of the Council book.

 

(7)       Members are reminded that these papers may be recycled. Appropriate containers are located in the respective secretariats.

 

(8)       Commonly used points of order

 

21 – Constituency issues must be about issues which specifically relate to the Member’s decision and is relevant to the services provided by the County Council

 

37 – Supplementary Questions must be on the same matter

 

49 – The Member has spoken for more than 10 minutes

 

51 – The Member is not speaking to the subject under discussion

 

54 – The Member has already spoken on the motion

 

59 – Points of Order and Personal Explanations

 

78 – Disorderly conduct

 

(9)    Time limit of speeches

 

Motions

   49 – no longer than 10 minutes (subject to any exceptions set out in the Constitution)

 

Constituency Issues

21 – up to 3 minutes per speech allowed

25 – up to 30 minutes for this item allowed

 

Petitions

28 – up to one minute per petition allowed

 

Questions to Committee Chairmen

33 – up to 60 minutes for this item allowed

 

Adjournment Debates

73– Mover has up to 5 minutes

 

74 – any other Councillor has up to 3 minutes

 

 (B)      For Members of the Public

           

(1)       Members of the public wishing to inspect "Background Papers" referred to in the reports on the agenda or Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act should contact:


Customer Services Centre 0300 500 80 80.

 

(2)       The papers enclosed with this agenda are available in large print if       required.  Copies can be requested by contacting the Customer Services Centre on 0300 500 80 80. Certain documents (for example appendices and plans to reports) may not be available electronically.  Hard copies can be requested from the above contact.

 

(3)       This agenda and its associated reports are available to view online via an online calendar –

http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/dms/Meetings.aspx

 


Exempt Items

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

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