23/07/2025 – Full Council

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But hello and welcome to everybody. Good evening. I’d like to welcome you all to this evening’s Council meeting. I’d like to extend special welcome to the public present in the cats will S, I’d like to take this opportunity. The recent and past in. Of one of happiest longer serving. That council. So I don’t know why my glasses are playing. And the past civic Mayor, Mr. Former Council should have shake. Should you? Who I knew personally was had his first Muslim, counselor first elected to the cats were 1974. He was a civic mayor of Hackney in 1991, which we serve many years on the Council together with his time on the council, spun in the five decades and ended in 2010. Should you devoted most of his life to Hackney and to make in the borough a better place? And they helped many handers arrested in that time? We’re joined in the chambers today by should just two daughters and other family members. I know the mayor wants to say a few words in her statement, about traditional shortly. But in the meantime, I invite you to join me in one minute. Silence in his memory, Sorry, thank you sadly. We’ve experienced the death of another long-standing member of our community last month. The parson of James Cook MBA James was a former British and European Super Meadow white champion and the inspirational leader of the Petro Club for over two decades, he changed the lives of many, hundreds of young people in the borough and we owe him a huge debt. This was well reflected in the vast numbers. Of attendees at both. The funeral and the wake, which I can say that I attended on behalf of the Council. I will continue to raise funds for the Pedro Club as one of my speakers charities to support the club, In building on James’ remarkable legacy. Unfortunately, in recent weeks we’ve also had the tragic death of Annabelle Rook from Mark, Mark Seuss and the past of Nelly Louise Brown who was one of the oldest living members of the Wind Rush community generation. as we won’t know the passing of the solicitor poet and activist mum and mentor to many in this chamber. very fondly and respectfully and send wholehearted condolences to their families and feel grateful for the impact on the lives of others. Is reminded to how precious life is, and how important is to try and make a a positive difference in the time that we have here. I know that the mayor plans to play her own tributes, to should James and the belt Nelly Louise and Wendy in her statements shortly on. Now it’s a turn to gender, right? And so I enjoyed into apologies for absence policies. I’ve been see so far from Council’s. Bio, Rumble Conway. Hey Huss, Odomiram and smile. I understand that cats are tomorrow. Will Join online. I also received a political lightness from cancer other gero. in order to capture third, apologies in elderly white, can I ask all apologies of right? For the group with leaders, Cancer Adams do have no. Thank you, Counselves. That’s Steinberg. No, apologies. Okay. Already apologies for many other groups. Okay, thank you very much. please can I also take this opportunity to remind members that we have not, who have not signed in please do so, please also sign out if you need to meet him Before it’s conclusion, this will assist in that record in attendance for this meeting and the health and safety purposes. Agenda item phrase because announcements. 60 AGM in my FB. So it has a game being my privilege to attend many civic and community events highlights included attending various wind rust events. And the London Pride, the Black Health Care Awards At the London Park Plaza Hotel in which Dr. Sandra Husbands as Director of Public, Health was nominated for the fence in the walls. We’ve also had Armed Forces Day last month which is kindly headed up by the past. Victorian councilshusters. she’s a sister runs in my absent and the fundraising has Begun for my charities, the Pedro Club Hackney Marsh Partnership and Hackney Food Bank. The first charity event was a dinner held at Zulu Grill last night. We had lots of plans for, for more charity events and the dinner was a great success. I am Keenum setting up an informal working group. of members or anybody else that would like to help to support the speakers office in raising funds and also supporting the nominated charities, I’m also asking members of anybody else has anything spare that they can donate for charity prices? She’s, if you have anything, just let me know and I’ll make arrangements to collective or you can leave it at the town hall for me. So, are there any decorations of interest relating to any items on the agenda? It’s so members please declare it. Now in the kitchen, which are submit relates to and the nature of the interest. That’s been another. I work for an organization that promotes assemblies and that might relate to the opposition sponsor business. That’s on the agenda Thank you. Okay. Minutes, the Earth and five minutes of the previous meeting. Can the minutes at the Annual General meeting held on the 14th of may be agreed as a true record. and accurate record of the proceedings? Thank you. so, it got stomach of You’ve got a matter of accuracy of you. Yeah. Just on page 14. I think it’s important because I think the outgoing speaker, I thank to on the basis of the type of council she used. And as we say you should mention which I said then and she’s a special counselor. I was referring to her as the council she was And you put here That was speaking about the speakership which I just thanked her and I said that, you shouldn’t have a really fit here that she was put in a deep end for a year. So that has to be rectified Also, for some reason, sometimes assignment, sometimes you call me Steinberg, I’ve got no problem with make up your mind. Okay, prep. Some governors can take that on board. One more little things. I thank the young and Sam Kirk. I think the wording should be much stronger because it done absolute amazing job and I don’t think it’s shown enough, you know, I’m most of the time I’m not thanking. But when something is being done, good, I wanted to be noted because it’s important of how hardly worked and that means everybody. So that’s important. Thank you. Thank you, that’s got the changes. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that to our Att. Ention. Okay. Before I enter ask Mayor Woodley to address the chamber. S, As part of the Revised Council Procedure rules. MEB Woodley. Would you like to make your statements to the Council? You have no more than eight minutes. Thank you. Madam Speaker. I would like to continue your theme of remembrance for remarkable members of our hackney communities who we have lost in recent months, who’s contributions to the borough we’re significant and who’s absent is deeply felt. We were shocked and sad and by the tragic death of Annabelle Rook. And up Annabelle, helped refugees and women fleeing domestic violence and was as an absolute force for good. Through. Mamasu’s the charity. She co-founded she brought creativity, joy and healing to women, who had fled violence and trafficking, and she went on to co-found the Amy’s project, which gave traumatized survivors, a voice through the expressive arts of drama art and writing. Tonight, we’re bringing forward emotion on tackling violence against women and girls, it’s a mission that Annabelle, dedicated her life to and we must continue this vital work and we do also mourn the loss of James Cook MBE who passed away in June James was an absolute community champion. He devoted his life to Hackney’s young people his work at the Pedro, Youth Club turned it into a safe haven, a space where young people could grow in confidence and stay away from harm. His MBA awarded in 2007 for services to youth justice, reflects his lasting impact on this borough. His legacy lives on in the lives of the countless young people. He mentored and thanks to council capital investment into the Pedro Club into a space where they will continue to gather and grow. I also join you Madam Speaker and paying tribute to Xuzia Sheikh, and welcome his family members who are attending this evening. Hatton’s first Muslim counselor first elected in 1974, over 32 years, he represented four different awards served as civic mayor and demonstrated, his unwavering commitment to justice by signing Hackney’s Antipartite, declaration in 1990. Shooter was instrumental in founding the old Hackney Muslim Council laying foundations for Muslim community life and our he was also a contributor to the children in young people and scrutiny commission. And I remember meeting him there after he’d become a counselor, and it’s so often that people continue their contribution to civic life. In June, we said goodbye to Nelly Louise Brown, who died at the incredible age of 111, born in Jamaica in 1913. Nellie was one of the longest surviving members of the Windrush generation. And last week, we were absolutely honored to host the launch of the office of the new Windrush. Commissioner, Reverend Clive Foster and to reflect on the enduring contributions of the Windrush generation. and people like Nelly who have helped shape the hackney we know today, we paid testament to Nelly on when Rush Day on the 22nd of June a market day event. We held in the town hall and I didn’t realize that all in Badoo was a relative and she kindly came to the stage and shared the joy of Nelly and you realize that so often these big figures are community Any one other big figure away from ourselves? So many people contribute to Barbara and finally, yes, we remember Wendy, Pettifer a fierce community champion campaigner solicitor socialist and poet who fought tirelessly for the rights of migrants and refugees. Many of us knew, her personally, as an activist or through the network of labor lawyers. She is a huge loss to the borough. I’m sure I speak for everyone in this chamber. and communities mourning, these losses, but I also want to share something the work they’ve done in order to celebrate the lives of those who give so much to help others. They are an examples to us all madam Speaker when I think about the people who make Hackney, I think of those committed to community dignity, justice and care. These are the same principles that shaped our manifesto and the resulting strategic plan. In line with these principles. I’m immensely proud of our extensive engagement residents on the issues that matter most are out communications and engagement. Team strive to ensure that residents voices are right? At the heart of our work. This commitment is clearly reflected in our latest resident survey which shows that 73% of hackney residence trust the Council a great deal or a fair amount of figure significantly ahead of the national benchmark of 53%. And we will do all we can to improve on this in future years. Hackney like other councils continues to face immense challenges. We’re changing from a young burrough to one with older people, who deserve our respect and our care. more residents than ever are relying on our services and we face intense financial pressure on our essential frontline staff, particularly in the areas of adult and children’s, social care and temporary accommodation. Despite this year after year, we’ve continued to deliver on our ambitious manifesto to create a greener, healthier fairer and safer working for every child, our strategic plan update, which I’ll be sharing tonight. Highlights are achievements over the last year. and working with officers on this over the last few months, I realized it was impossible to list everything we’ve done in one document. Last September. I identified three key priorities. Tackling the housing crisis, head on addressing, the root causes of poverty. And inequality and leading the way in the fight against climate change. I will share the progress. We’ve made in these areas and across the depth and breadth of our plan later on in the agenda. our council staff community partners, educators and health professionals, go above and beyond every single day, I want to say a really special, thank you to Jennifer Winter. Who is moving on, from Hackney Council this week, Jen, first joined the Council in 2005. So 20 years of service and is so ably headed one of our most critical services as assistant, director of the Benefits and Homes prevention supporting some of our most vulnerable Distance. She’ll be a massive loss to the Council and will be following her progress into our hamlets with great interest. I also want to thank Mark Agnew who left the council after 17 years working first in the mayor’s office, then in governance services. Mark has helped steer members and officers alike through our duties and public meetings with calm professionalism, his institutional knowledge, his sense of public duty and excellent style will be greatly missed. I wanted to end by acknowledging that our communities continue to be impacted. Not only by challenges at home, but atrocities abroad. last month, I wrote to David Lamy, calling fraction on human rights abuses including an arms embargo on the Israeli government and urged for further sanctions to enable the council to divest from companies linked to Israel’s military operations in Gaza and the West Bank, It was in part. The application of sanctions that made it legally possible to divest from Russia in previous years. Plus the fact, as I understand it that we held a number of direct investments at that time, I recognize that a growing. Number of councils have committed to explore divestment and although we are all constrained by a fiduciary duty. In other words, we cannot lawfully, take action that would decrease the value of pension funds. We want to assure members that we’re doing all we can to uphold ethical investment and stewardship. The UN’s warning that Israel’s warfare methods and Gaza may be consistent with genocide means the UK. Government must urge further action in securing the release of hostages supporting the distribution of aid. Called for an arms embargo and I believe recognize the state of Palestine. Madam Speaker Hackney is an incredible place and it is my privilege to serve it. So, many people have come to operator to find sanctuary from different parts of the world and have made so many significant contributions. Others have come because they feel at home in a place that is ambitious creative exciting and full of people who committed to working together to try and think over adversity and to celebrate successes. The challenges are real but so is our determination. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Woodley. Wouldn’t anyone from the conservative group like to respond? You have no more than three minutes. You don’t have to tell me all the three minutes of real quick Okay. when I started off, In my political career. I was very close with Shojin. Should you was a speaker in Hackney and he was very true in what he believed. When they had this mock Trotter thing, he could not stay in the Labor Party and he moved to the new Labor Party and became. I believe it was. The deputy leader. And he was very, very powerful and what he’d done. He was basically busy with. The whole hackney. I remember coming actually today when I came in to the Conservative party room, I saw. A tray of. That was Hugest tree and we decided we’re going to keep it there as As a member to remember Shuja. Now, there’s many other things I remember. Should you had a book as big as this? Where he had all his stuff in there. Everything he was doing for Hackney, I remember at the time when he was in still, in the new Labor Party, there was a by-election in East Town. And should you set me Simka? I’m going for it. So I said, Do you realize that you got no chance? She says, no such thing as no chance. Everything you have to try. And he stood, and he actually had a very nice vote there. He didn’t win but he had a very nice fault and he never gave up in the end. He stood in Springfield, he was my counselor and my second home. I spent I could say probably in the community, in the Muslim community, it’s the house. I spent not just I spent the house. I was always, I remember the cat, I remember the mother your mother and I little car was driving around everywhere. and should you when you finish being a counselor he told me Cancer Steinberg, I do not want to give up on local politics. So we found a way in for him which was to sit and represent the Muslim community on scrutiny and he done that for many years until when it was impossible to do that anymore. So he will be sadly missed and he was a great asset to hackney and Till till recently, he walked around like a guy of 25 years old. So the energy that he had and that was very, very strong. He will be remembered by, hopefully, by everybody. I just wanted to. Sarah. And basically, I wanted to say on what the mayor mention is very interesting. She’s busy with watching what Jennifer Williams is going to do power Hamlet. She’s busy about Israel and you realize we got hackney also to run. I think the problem is that you forget about Hackney, you actually been elected to be me and happy. Not how Hamlet’s not in Israel. So I believe you should concentrate on your plate because a 25 million pounds and you’re tracking in the dustbin and making yet more pollution and things a lot of rubbish. So, please spend our money sensitively and stop wasting our money. Because I Remind members that are speaking to try and keep to there. A lot of time, we’ve all agreed these times. and it’s for everybody’s benefit that we keep to them Council. Meeting is a very long. I’m members of public here to listen and we don’t keep them here. Any longer they need to base. So I like cats ago, but I, I’d like to give the green groups condolences to all of the Hackney leaders and their fact that we’ve lost and all their families and friends and send our green group condolences to to you for your loss and the main you mentioned working for every child yet we’ve seen nursery fees hike and hike costs of 69% for working families, near an arbitrary line of 55,000 per household income. This includes couples on London, living wage and forcing women out of work. While fees go down for much wealthier households, benefiting from the national free hours roll out. So I hope the mayor will listen to families and pause this poorly thought through changes. And turning to divestment and recognizing their letter that you sent to Lamy. So I know that people are devastated by the Ostracities that they see our government is completely complicit in this genocide. Parts. Are from. So f-35 jets are dropping bombs on Palestinians made from parts from built in the UK. 15% of every single jet includes parts from the UK writing a letter as a start but that should have happened years ago and we need much more urgent action to stop the aiding and abating of the genocide. That’s happening, Palestinians are being slaughtered and staffed every single We’ve seen us out over a thousand killed and accused for food hubs and air convoy routes including children. We are arming a genocide and an apartheid. It’s quite insulting to us. Who’ve worked really hard to get the council to even talk about, divestment to hear you say that, you’ve written to the government asking for powers that I best when we haven’t even as a council committing to divest, we haven’t had that debate here. We’ve we’ve been blocked on a number of occasions for bringing emotion when we when emotion a dictation was bought by and someone who shared a deep deep story about their Palestinian family to the pension committee. It was meant met with a pre-made script with no heart or soul, which didn’t even knowledge, the councils ambition to diverse. So I want you to recognize the deep pain of Hackney residence. And also the fact that a lot of The action that you’re taking is because of the deep pain that residents are feeling they camped outside for months, to get you to take action. So it would be good to hear you. Recognize. How many palestines and solidarity campaign? The work they’re doing on boycotting food items. And yeah the camp that they that they had outside and and just on arms We obviously, we won’t have a full council before the dicey arms fair that takes place in East London. It’s a biannual horrendous fair that sells arms to dictators and human rights abusers and I hope that you will join me in the Mayor of London in condemning the Gross Conference of Misery, Deaf and Destruction, and that you will. And it’s so contrary to our inclusive values and an offense to our communities who’ve fled on configs. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for taking time Council Garber. I married like cancer about. From that independent social group to respond. Thank you, three minutes. Um could I also offer condolences to all of those who’ve lost the loved ones and in particular, I’d like to single out Annabelle, Rook and Natalie Brown and just say that, it’s rather sad, isn’t it? That Annabelle who gave so much of her time to working for decent housing for immigrants and Natalie who was a member of the Windrush generation who looking at a situation now where we’re still waiting reparations for the Windrush generation to be completed and the situation with immigration housing is Frank. Calling and an embarrassment to the Labor Government. I’d also really like to mention Wendy Petfer, who was a personal friend who will loved, and who we will really miss dearly. And with regard to the mayor’s letter, to David Lamy, we’re not witnessing a conflict in any conventional sense there. But a mass murder ethnic cleansing and the utter devastation. That’s really not infrastructure. You rightly pointed out to David Lamy that the UN has said on several occasions. This may be consistent with genocide but you imply that you need a reset somehow from the national government before you can act on diverse on human rights grounds and that is simply not the case. The 2014 Law Commission guidance makes clear that pension funds can buy this on ethical grounds. If two conditions are met, first fund members, must support DIVERSEMENT and our pension fund members clearly do as you point out your letter and second that divestment shouldn’t significantly negatively affect the performance of the fund. As the tide of public opinion, is now utterly repulsed by the IDF’s actions There is a real danger that by not divesting from the Israeli arms machine. You have a negative impact on that fund. We recognize that there are bureaucratic delays and potential legal obstacles to divestment, but some 15 other councils and growing have made a commitment to pursue divestment in principle. So will you Mayor Woodley commit to divesting Hackney’s pension fund from companies? Complicit in what you yourself have admitted, maybe genocide, or is your letter to David Lamy? Just empty words. Finally could I on the issue of the council’s, finances? You say that housing is a priority. I’m just wondering how you’re going to manage that in the financial year so far. We’re only a quarter of the way through it. You’ll projecting an overspend of 10 million pounds. the housing revenue account, which was overspent by 17 million last year has been told. It’s got to save a million pounds this year, and it has to implement tough improvements. after the calamitous failing set out by the social housing regulator and the Ombudsman Some of the targets in that housing improvement plan are already being missed. So, in short, Mayor Woodley. Are you living in cloud computing? It’s not gonna achieve those savings and actually fulfill your promises on housing. Thank you. For today, you have three minutes. Thank you. And I was very moved by your contribution to Condolences and councilor Steinberger. Especially when you talk about objects that remind us of people that we’ve lost, I know with the my father and my grandparents, they’re a small objects around my home really quite modest little things but they they bring those people back to me in a moment and it’s I guess it’s the Madeleine effect isn’t it? But a lovely to hear that you’re in that home and that, that connection and Cancer. Gareth, thank you. Also for sharing your condolences, and also councilor route. And I know we all share that sort of investment in the people that work. so hard. What we do. And actually we try and live in the image to raise challenge as you’ve all done tonight but also to contribute on the ground. And I think again I would ask that we look at how we can bring cohesion and support amongst people rather than as it were storing the pot and flinging blame. You say I should have written something years ago. Well, I did. I wrote to the former Foreign Secretary and you I shared that letter with you at that time. and I’ve engaged with many different groups across the borough, either going out with my deputy mayor, with individual counselors when it’s their awards or indeed, with the chief executive to understand how we can help and that might be through. Standing that might be through creating new connections. It might be through taking up and the challenge that they bring to me and taking it forward to ministers, or city hall or to anyone that can help. I don’t believe it is possible. For us to divest in the way that you described, Counselor Route. I think we have to maintain our fiduciary duty and we have also got a low carbon vehicle with exemptory stewardship so I think there is a genuine question about how we do more but I do believe that we have the will to do more and we do want to take seriously the outcome of that member survey that we pressed for and to ensure that our holders within the pension fund feel reassured that we’re doing the right thing by them. In terms of still waiting for recreations for the win rush generation. I’ve got to say it was both. Uplifting, but also deeply, you know, upsetting to be in the room with the Commissioner. We had amazing testimonies including from one of our own council officers who I won’t name in this room, but I’m happy to tell you more privately who through her testimony, the entire room was on their feet but it was a real story of persistence against the odds to try and get the support that she and her mother, would you? And I was convinced by the commissioner that he was taking this. Very seriously, just the fact that he spent today hearing from really quite challenging advocates. You know, people that that were really saying, what’s going to happen. And when The fact that our minister also Seema hotra came and to listen and to converse with him was a real indication that the Windrush Home Office scandal will be properly addressed and you all spoke or return to interrupt you Mayor Woodley. That’s three minutes. You all spoke of doing the work in Hackney I do it every day 12. Hour days, I’m out in the community all the time, and I will continue to do that. Thank you very much. We now move on. to say, I thank all those who’ve contributed. I’d like to fight the family about the late. She just shake and to offer you our students, serious serious, condenses. And it was lovely to see you and host you. And for this meeting, I’m in the parlor and to get to talk to you about your light barber. I’m relative You’re welcome to. To leave or to stay for the rest of the meeting. And they’re going to move on to. I change an item. Seven, which is questions from members of the public. So, just want to remind those responding that the amended Council procedure allows for total free minutes for response to questions. The Council’s constitutional implants, a maximum 30 minutes to public questions. Any questions have not been asked at this time will be written. We’ll have a written response and called and be recorded in a minute. As this is custom when I call your name. If your present, please approach Odeon to ask your question, a reminder that you should ask your question as it has been, published anyone not present will receive a written response to their question. Once you’ve received your question, Your response, you have an opportunity to us supplementary question and it’s something She answered Questions. Must remind Come out of your your answer. Original question. You may not make a speech or a statement. And they reply to supplementary questions might take only up to two minutes. Thank you. He’s a Dylan law here. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. I said in a yes or no, it doesn’t matter believe that she is sufficiently represented. The viewpoints of young people during their time. Yeah, the question. Yeah. Yes, I want to do more. Throughout my time as mayor. And also during this, I’ve mentorship term in my former role, as covenant lead for families. I’ve been committed to listening to young people and acting on what they told me matters. Most when young people told me, they wanted more spaces to play and gather we invested in parts, playgrounds multi-use games areas, and ensure that spaces like venture playgrounds are shaped by the young people that use them. To the work. I’ve had the chance to do in increasing provision for children with special educational needs. I’ve also met with school councils and representative groups such as a neurodiverse, People’s Council in-depth, Through the you said we did approach young. People haven’t just been consulted. They’ve been part of the change. We’ve also co-produce services that matter to young people like spotlight at Forest, Road are dropping health hub, rated highly by those using it. My deputy mayor has joined me an engaging in the work of the Hackney Schools Group board who’ve engaged with young people on their sense of belonging. The amazing officers working across the local offer participation and re-engagement services have also captured voices in innovative ways to support candor. For example, bringing in a manga artist to make portraits of young people interviewed about their experiences from the highlights of their home and educational lives through to the very deepest challenges. Patanese Parliament, has been at the heart of this work. They’ve shaped our thinking, your mental health school, behavior, criminal exploitation violence against women and girls and much more. They’ve sat in cabinet challenge counselors and scrutiny panels. And make sure that young voices are not only heard but embedded in policy. Nationally are two UK Youth Parliament, Reps, Martha and Romeo brought Hackney’s voice to the House of Commons contributing to debates on national campaigns for period dignity. And folks at 16, a proposal that our Labor government is now committed to delivering what better representation is there Madam Speaker than enabling young people to vote. Thank you. Women trying. Despite what she says, on the piece of paper. could I ask if she believes that the young people would agree if they asked? If the young people were, would they agree if everyone was asked? Development, for example, in the play area there will invite them back out to see what they think of the work we did and whether we didn’t good enough job. And if we didn’t, we’ll try harder. Here very much. You’ve been prompt is Rachel Maguire here. That’s come forward. My question is to the cabin member for homelessness prevention. Rough sleeping and temporary accommodation. Can she please explain to me the support given to residents in our borough? Who are rough sleepers or temporary accommodation residents during this high changing temperatures while it peaks at 34 degrees? Cache essay. You’ve got respond. Thank you. Thank you very much Madam Speaker. Thank you. Rachel for the question. Hackney cancer. We recognize and understand you’re doing just the resident. In terms of the extreme warm weather and high temperature. I mean, this is not just statutory requirement, but the Council is committed to keeping residents safe during hot weather. Particularly those who are living on the streets as they may Higher risk of literated illnesses, like heat, exorption and heat stroke due to prolonged exposure. The cancer has in place a severe weather protocol It is activated when temperatures either for below freezing, or I expected to rise above 25 degrees and this is part of a Pan London approach, which is been adopted by most London boroughs In most instances. The protocols are activated when an alot is received from the UK health. Security Agency and the Met office. Although the cancer will activate the protocol independently. When local conditions are condis considered a risk, so the protocol centers on ensuring that residents are provided with information on the health risk associated with extreme temperatures, the symptoms of his exertion and when to take preventative measures so we produce leaflets posters, we provide information colleagues in the room can testify so that I sent information out We do this on social media. I mean the importance. The advice stresses the importance of being properly hydrated and details where those without ready. Access to what’s our country. Love a bottle of water for free acting. What are refill station? So they are located. sites across the borough and additionally Me. And what we also do is we triggers to various places that they can Stakehold during the period example is Mind May Club, and also our public libraries. So with regards, the outreach service should not be considered as an emergency service, why we encourage resident to support rough slippers by reporting their location and description to strictly. It is important that if any resident is observed to be in distressed appropriate, assistance is sort immediately from the NHS through 111 or 999 and with regards to residents interpreter, accommodation, the challenges of hussain, whether a broadly similar to just residents in settled, accommodation, and residents are encouraged to follow general advice about keeping cool. and before I finish what I’m speaker, I like to work or may your woodley, which regards to Jennifer Winter, Jennifer has been a strong and a committed man. I’m assistant director, she everybody understand and knows that she’s very hard working. As she would definitely be missed. I just needed to say that. Thank you Richard. Hello, do you have a supplementary? Questions, thank you very much. Okay, can I Call the next speaker, which is Alana Henry. hi, I just want to say acknowledge that Caroline mentioned Wendy, Pettifer Thank you. Yes. Ask questions. I was just thinking her for saying about Wendy. No, it’s a question, it’s public questions. Okay. Okay, thank you. So, when I sent in my question, I sent in a bit of background evidence that explained that in July 23 at High Court Judge, Mitchell, right? Just out. So, my in that question about part of the question is, why is there no online application, form for housing? Registration on Hackney Council website. Okay, I cover your responding. Thank you. Thank, thank you very much Madam Speaker. Thank you very much. Alana for the question. I’m sure everybody understands that in 2020. We had a cyber And it’s hard, a significant impact across hackney IT system and existing housing registers system and what we are currently doing is we’re grappling with this with these and I mean everybody in also understands that we have a profounder for their hustle crisis, a challenge that was heavily on our resident. So the reality is that more and more hackney wristers are finding themselves, Facing homelessness or the threat of it or trapped in unsuitable living conditions. However, I just wanted to give you the information that the number of available family science social properties as at last year was that we came available was only 336. We continue to make progress, which regards to the software, developing the software, the benefits and homeless prevention is not at the moment, we are not in a position to include an online House of Register application on the Cancer website. We recognize the first frustration residents have been unable to do this directly through the website. What do we do? That does not mean resident. Cannot join the house and register. What we have done is to provide a short-term solution to resident housing. I mean what we have done is we asked President who are interested in joining the register to call our customer service on all 2008, 356, 2929, and the effective date for a resident. Joining the house register is the date. The contact customer service and when the contact customer service, they will take all the details and provided. They need the eligibility and criteria and contacting customers services, allow residents the opportunities to discuss their house and situation and for appropriate advice to be given why? No residents will be excluded from making an application. Then we also be directed to other areas of service, best able to support an advise them on securing a suitable settled within a reasonable. Scale. Thank you. Do you have a supplementary? Yes, I do. What’s a recognize? What you’re saying? The fact is that there still is no online application. And when I have many examples of people who have phoned the council one of them has been waiting three years, Three years to get registered. And nobody has contacted her. Another client has waited been told. They have to wait 15 weeks for an online application. Another one’s been told they have to wait. So this is a question the last time that you must provide an application and Hackney council is breaking the law. If let me assure everyone and all resident listening that there is no three years for any resident to, that’s hold on. Let me, let me finish. There is no reason for any resident to be asked to be on us. I mean, to wait before they can register, you might be talking in terms of having to beat or in terms of register. What they will do when you contact the customer services, they will take your details in terms of your phone number. Your name, your address, your email, and then they will send you an application form to filled and where you need to supply. About evidences, in terms of supporting evidences, you will be required to definitely supply that as well. But Categorically, that is not what we do. If you have evidence, I’m not having you. Thank you. Thank you. This isn’t going to be a debate between the two of you. I’m sure you can speak to cancel. I say yes. Out of this meeting. Is Julie Foxx president. Lincoln. Hello. Hi. This is a question for the cabinet. Minimum member for climate change, environment and transport. Wilton Estate Tenants and Residents Association seeks installed solar on our estate blocks, the Council denied permission in 2017 for viability study, and we have not had a response to our application for the Council’s, residential, solar power project of 2024 and 25. Why are actively engaged to states not being supported. Hi Gillian, thank you very much for asking about this. We are really, really keen to include all estates across Hackney in the residential solar project and this just to explain for others and this is a pilot scheme at the moment. For where we’re putting solar panels on the top of 27 Council blocks. they it’s just a pilot, so we’re testing it out to see whether it works and that that solar energy is then providing electricity at a cheaper rate from the sun to council, tenants and residents. And so when we first looked at that scheme we we looked at 2,910. Blocks residential buildings across Hackney. And we then filtered the results from those to look at those, which will be most viable for this kind of pilot phase of the scheme, which is a range of different types of block to test out. really whether this would work there are technical reasons why it was surprisingly complicated to do this. So we really wanted to be sure that the microgrid would work that the systems for for passing that energy down to individual flats would work as well. And we are at the moment just at the stage of the panels are up on the 27 blocks and emergent who are our partner who are doing that work, are going out to residents to off them the opportunity to sign up to hackney light and power to get that cheaper energy. So once we looked at those nearly 3,000 buildings, we then filtered the results down by roof type by size. By what else they had on their roofs already maintenance constraints and so on that was reduced down 382 buildings and to make further feasibility assessment. So, unfortunately, at this stage Wilton Estate, wasn’t one of the first three estates for those 27 blocks and but once we’ve worked at once, we’re sure that this works at the pilot scheme, you know is successful that people sign up that, you know, the energy is flowing freely into their homes and is cheaper and is working we will then go back to the feasibility studies and our aim is to roll this out as white as we possibly can and I certainly hope that wellness state will be one of those. Thank you, Captain. Do you have a supplementary? I smooth. Something vintage is a timeline around this? I know that’s asking. I can’t give you an exact time. So, literally right now, the panels are on the roofs of those on those three. Estates emergent are going out right now. They’ve just started going out to get residents to sign up once we’ve, you know, once people have signed up once they receiving the electricity and then we’ve had an opportunity to evaluate the results of that we will. Then look at the next phase which is This is one mega what electricity, we’ve identified 15 megawatts in total, for that sort of next phase of roll out and then we will go back and do further feasibility study. So once we’ve in this pilot will, then be able to identify how long it will take us to get to the next stage and the one after that. So I can’t give you, you know, it will be this date this year but I can tell you that’s the phasing. Thank you. I’m silly hall. Hello. At my questions to the mayor. Why are high polluting diesel vans being hired by lime to distribute bikes to bays on a daily basis? Drivers are being hired on a payment by task basis. Only in addition to the chaos disturbance, cluttering bike and mobile theft, the issues with lime continue to increase. And the contract needs address. I’m going to answer this because I’m responsible for the line bikes and all of them. All of them, everyone you’ve seen fallen over and so thank you for highlighting. And these issues, we are right now in the very final stages of procuring new contracts for either one or two dockless ebike companies. And so because of that we’re a bit constrained in what specifically we can tell you about any particular company and our contract with them. However, can tell you is that we put some very stringent Requirements into these new contracts and that high bike companies are signing up to. And we I personally expect to see some very significant improvements to the Douglas Harbor companies operating in Hackney. And we so we’re in this standstill period right now and but we’re in a very strong position I think to drive up standards and for Dr. Cycle hire and also to deliver a kind of step change in the resources. Meaning money coming in available to the Council to manage those higher companies and very, very nice nice Echo. So and to tackle the issues relating to those shared ebikes what we as soon as we’re out of this standstill period with the contracting will be putting out quite a lot of information about the changes that you can expect to see in the service because of the changes in the contracts that we’ve required and so specifically on the vans We have current contract with lime where those vans are required to be electric vehicles. So the contractor requirement is that their electric vehicles. And so we’ve contacted Lime to raise your query and I’ve also personally seen a van which I think is diesel as well. So I know that that is happening. Sometimes they alignment apologize. If this is the case and commit to reaffirming the terms and conditions with their third party contractors, and They also say, please, if we see a van that’s doing delivering their bikes around the borough that we think is not an evil, can we please report it directly to them, which we can. and they subcontract a lot of that work out, but that doesn’t make any difference to the contractual terms if they subcontract the subcontractors also tied to the same terms. So it’s not good enough, it’s absolutely not good. and just to say on the wider issues that you’ve raised, we have been doing a lot of work and I think you will see this in the new contracts around bikes being used without payment bikes, being dumped, inconsiderate cycling. And then I can see that my lights on Ambus. I’m going to say there is a quite a wide range of quite stringent requirements within this, the new contract and also the resources to really enforce those going forward. So I hope that you’re going to see some improvements and you’re welcome to come back. Cool. Thank you. And In light of all the chaos. I assume lime is still inconsideration for the contract. Could you not consider counseling the contract with lime? And speaking with the Mayor of London about Pedro Scheme, which is all the more sustainable which could include access for young people, as so I can’t tell you who’s in the frame. So I can’t tell you who applied. When we put out a tender a number of different companies. Applied, my mail may not have been one of them, but currently, they’re what you’re seeing now is them operating under their existing contract. So any enforcement is under the existing contract and they read there are moves across London to have a London wide scheme and that that’s a conversation that we’re having with London councils. But also with government and the GLA about imposing a london-wide regulatory regions at the moment. It operates by borough. There is already obviously the Santander bikes which are run by transport for London and they’re not Douglas but It’s the same kind of idea. Thank you. Next person is That I am Tessaary. Sort of connection anymore. Leaving me a question is for the mayor? Oh no, it’s not for the mares for the guy sitting next to the mayor. And it’s Manifesto Hackney Labor promised to support participatory budgets. To allow tenants and leaseholders to shape the future of their estates. And also promised to capture the aspirations of residents in five year investment plans for Council alone to states over 250 homes. What has the council done to fulfill these pledges? And I believe your responding. Yep, that’s correct man. Speaker and thank you, Dan. I thank you very much for your question. And the 2022-26 Manifesto commitment that you refer to, for participatory estate based budget making and five-year investment plans on council and estates still remains on the table. And are part of a comprehensive program of work that is underway within housing services. The services managing and delivering and improvement program that is improving, not just the quality of day-to-day services and everything that wraps around that. that will be provided to tenants and leaseholders, but this all so includes introducing a local neighborhood approach to providing housing services and the far closer working relationship with tenants and residents through tenants and residents associations. As part of this program, the Council is midway through a two and a half years standard stock condition, survey, that will see every council home in the borough, surveyed to assess its condition, and that will provide the evidence-based, starting point for a state plans to be shaped and designed With this survey evidence resident-led estate base plans can be formed and capital identified and allocated but to be clear, the estate plans will be led through the estate-based, Tra’s working with the Council. Thank you. Madam Speaker. Supplementary, I do. Thanks to the deputy mayor beyond housing in what areas is the council willing to employ, participatory budgets Payday. I don’t think it was. We heard it short beyond housing in what areas is the council willing to employ? Participatory budgets Thank you, Dana. And I fear I’m not really a quit to be able to respond to your very ambitious question there about councilwide participatory budget making that would be other colleagues in the Cabinet who run with the finance brief, who’s better placed? But if I may just bring it back and I appreciate this isn’t specifically answering the question that you just tabled, but if I may bring it back to tenants and residents and the states of 250 homes or more the participatory budget proposition is part of that capital program but what I will just point out it’s very briefly perhaps Chapman can Oh, written Response. I have I haven’t might have the answers to participatory budgets, if not wake up provided, I was just about to kind of embellish so with with participatory budget making and the spending of over 1.2 million pounds worth of HRA housing revenue accounts. Budgets the question that was asked until I was trying to widen it out a little bit. speak about Better. That’s we could have a conversation outside of the Council Chamber. S are right at the outset and strive hard to deliver those to the budget term. We have a consultation process, which we take a very seriously in setting about you, but we’re always willing to look at other ways of consulting with community and ensuring that all I heard so thank you for your question. You very much. Thank you, all members of public. That’s the end of public question time. You can say, I’m going to the public gallery or you can leave moments entirely up to you. Thank you very much. we now move on to Our agenda item eight, which we have five minutes for, which is members allowances members, you before you a report from Chambersective, which sets out the Members allowance game for 25 26, I understand the cancer been in Lubbock and cancer turbot to love which to speak to this item. Please indicate if there any other members who wish to wish to speak to, and I will call you intern, we have five minutes. Yeah, that’s been eleven. Thank you very much as greens. We believe this very important to improve accessibility to elected office, and that counselors should be properly renumerated for their time and efforts. And while we’re pleased with the 80,000 pounds worth of savings by, not going through with the uplift previously passed by this Council. We still do not feel comfortable voting for a horizon members. allowances during this chronic cost of living crisis, especially we’re especially worried about how this will sit with residents, while the Labor government is voting through cuts to personal independent payments for disabled people and floating the have cuts to send children and also And also for councilors to get an increased allowances while they’re also overseeing restructures and transformations, which might see officers roles put a risk. So, we are planning to obtain from this item. Thank you. Cassidy Law. Thank you. Thank you. Melanie Speaker. We do share the concerns. That the green Cornbreads have just shown now. We so we also abstain on the, on this item, we do want to share something else as well. and is that the current rates or the current remuneration really does also deter younger people from entering into public life? Because it has a reflect, and it doesn’t support the ongoing. and economic crisis that we have experiencing and also the rise in the mountains in range. Course, housing. So, we do hope that future administrations do think and improve the rates that elect the members could have when they’re doing when they come into public life. So in also brings a broader future counselors to the chambers. Thank you. For being prompt cancer Steinberg. That’s where the speaker. I quite see the opposite of what the Greens have been saying. I actually see a reduction of the conservative leaders wage to probably about half. Now I’m sick and tired of on the agenda, singing, independent, independent, because there’s no other London borough who uses this and I keep on going on, and on about it. And clearly, there’s some kind, it’s nothing to do with independent. It’s got to do if you sit here on this side, Will make sure that you work hard like I don’t know what, and we’ll decide now. If you don’t have a look, On page 29. I can’t understand if it’s got to do with group leaders. Why is the mayor also not under the? Why is it oppositional group leaders enough to do the man? It makes no sense. It’s not done. Anywhere, only here in Hackney, I keep on mentioning this every year it’s the same thing and there’s never any normal answer but it doesn’t make sense. We’re now in 2025, and the leader who’s been getting in 2012 wage of 35,000 pounds is not actually getting away to 20 something thousand pounds. It’s clearly stinks of something, but it’s the normal, I see this the whole time where we say, we’re using it dependent people. I don’t even think this independent guys even seen this report, So I would really think it’s time to make a new review and go through it properly and copy London, barrels. Not just do our own agenda for everything. So we’ll be actually voting against this. Whole shenanigan. Is there anybody else? What’s coming? Thank you, it was noted that, yeah, well, we had ambitions to move towards the London Council’s recommended Increase and more substantial review of this game. That was just not not feasible. Given the fact that the Council just set a budget with 10 million user reserves in the financial position continues, We do want to look at the equity this screen the longer term but now is not the appropriate time to do that. I think the recommendation as recommend it to set out basically. accords with a long established principle that we basically mirror. The increases given to staff. And that’s exactly what we’re doing here, and that’s what we’re recommended to council. Right. Thank you. It’s a member of members of indicated do members agree to talk the members allowance game for 25-26 as attached in Appendix One. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you, Captain Burger. It’s been noticed. Okay, agenda Item 9 which we have sub minutes for is a you’ve just distributed partnership plan. members of to note that this report is contained within supplementary agenda, which you should have had. I invite the Catholic member for Community safety and regulatory services. So introduce report you have to free minutes following which members made debate the context of this fall. And that I received notification from Cancer Davis, Cancer, Premier and Captain Suso Rones who wish to speak in this item. Anybody else who wishes to speak or comment once. those who have just read out has spoken, please raise your hands and now add you to the list if there is time. Thank you. Madam Speaker, the our report before us this evening. As you said, the Hackney You just Strategic Partnership Plan 2025 to 2028. Or they you Justice Board of England and ways to be late. A requirement for the Anwar Three-year plan to design of a full council, which is why this report is before us this evening. In our duty. As a local authority, we have consulted with partners agency that meant to be consulted in developing this or strategy plan. And those partners includes or the police probation, education health children, sushi community safety housing court, voluntary and community sector as well as feedback from staff young people and their parents. So, it is from the Cifa Young Hackney Partnership Board. with adopted this approaching developing this and I can confirm the developing this or strategy will came together in the facilitated workshop to consider local performance data the outcome. We achieve for children the challenges we’re currently facing feedback from children and family that are holding you justice and before we develop this, our primarily the aim of the, you justice is to prevent offending on the offending by children and young people and I can say in hackney, we have adopted the child first, it’s about safeguarding is about making sure. The first thing we do is not criminalizing our young people. It’s about making sure our young people are diverted into, or, Aa to all the into supporting them when any criminality happened or any issues happen. Having said that there will be situation where the police might not agree with us in terms of that or devicting of the of the of the crime. So, basically dies, you justice, a plan before you and I hope all members can sign these of us. Our grant to Ronnie disease Depending on this, we need to submit this to the, you just tease Board of England. I will thank you Madam Speaker. That’s a Davis. Thank you, Mother Speaker. I want to start by recognizing some of the real strengths in the plan and feedback particularly around the dedication of frontized off. I do have concerns about the process and we’ve got us to this plan. However, the forward rightly says, We need a system wide approach, so just but in practice, the strategy seems to have been developed for primarily alongside the Safe Young Hackney Partnership Board, which while important only represents a part of the wider system. the plan references, some feedback from the young people families and staff as you say, but not meaningful, co-production or real engagement with grassroots, youth groups. You aren’t already tied into formal structures, like the board or young Hackney under the VCS umbrella. And that is a gap. We read that the Council expects to develop a participation approach, which sounds good, but it’s not in a place yet. So we can honestly, say, coming, honestly, say that this plan reflects a system-wide approach. If we’ve excluded many of those closest to the issues, especially so many organizations who are also reaching out to young people before they even in the system. This includes children excluded from school obviously insecure, housing, insecure housing risk of exploitation. And some often also unknown to our services, but well known perhaps to grassroots groups, many black and global majority, level organizations have directly told me that they feel shut out Strate, Conversations that londonborough hackney are blocked by bureaucratic barriers to funding and engagement and that leads me to one of the most flaring omissions I think in this plan, which is scnd, it’s mentioned just three times in the entire 56 pages. And nowhere is their serious consideration of how this insects with race exclusion and injustice, the board itself that we are talking about from England and Wales have made very clear in 2022 and its review. The scnd needs are widespread of courses across this cohort and used justice. Black and global majority children are disproportionately under diagnosed misdiagnosed or diagnosed too late. and in Hackney, we have over 3,000 children with ehcps, and many more who have unmet or unrecognized needs still. So, why is this not a strategic priority specifically outlined in the plan at all? While I welcome the overwhelmingly positive feedback or finalized staff in the later sections. Constructive criticism is also pretty absent. That raises the question. Are we building a culture that truly welcomes honesty and challenge in this space? Or are we at risk of falling into what the housing ombudsman called a positivity prison elsewhere? If we’re serious about system-wide, approach, and scnd race, or justice, and grassroots engagement cannot be left as afterthoughts or called to complicated do now, they have to be central and in there from the start. Thank you. Thank you very much and just to just emphasize just to exercise what cancel the Davis said about inclusive the tea and really needs to be matched. Who’s actually involved. And publish a map of organizations, involves its clear, who is and, who isn’t at the table and to reiterate the fact about and send children the Youth Justice Board data that 71% of centers children, 2019 to 2020 had speech language, or communications needs. So this needs to be really looked at you very much. This is a range. Thank you. Madam Speaker. this is an excellent and very comprehensive plan and one of its strengths is it that it rightly addresses, the intersection of race and social economic inequality. It addresses face in interventions that must be balanced by acknowledging socioeconomic inequality and racial injustice. This is Justice Reimagined in the Plan. By accepting and providing a whole system approach. The importance of a child first policy and a rights based approach. This plan ensures that there can be no disapplication of children’s human rights. I would ask all members to make time and to read this plan to the very last line. Thank you. Thank you everybody for that. Can we agree? The recommendations are set out in the report. Thank you very much, gentle item, 10 appointments to committees. The members agree, the recommendations. Thank you. Gender item, 11. No, no, I’m moving it. Sorry. Gender Artery 11, Questions from members of the Council. We’re 30 minutes for this. If you’re all prompt to keep your time, everyone should get their questions answered. Okay, thank you. the first question is from cancer, but had to buyer who’s not hit present and I gather that cats above. He’s going to ask the question on her behalf. That’s the battle. Thank you very much. Captain Chapman here. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor, Adebbeau, for your important question. Better speaker. Protecting the vulnerable is at the heart of what we stand for, as a labor council. in direct answer to Council at the virus question, and we set out Up. What is called here to help in November 22 as a response to the impact of the cost of living crisis on our residents here to help? is a easily accessible multidisciplinary service, that brings together benefit of assessment support with an assessment for a range of discretionary grants, managed by the Council. it has a data LED active outreach approach at the heart of services, and that is quite important because that I think that that insight we get through that data has been one of the things help us target campaigns and get quite the results results that we have there. The core goal of here to help is tackle and benefits under claiming and the borough. Since its exception here, to help us supported. 2,823 people with benefits. Uptake, Totaling some 4.79 million. Increasing comes to some of Hackney’s, most vulnerable households income maximization cases represents 12% of total applications. Of all the residents receded benefits up like Help. 60% were often support as a result of targeted campaigns on specific. codes. This includes a hugely successful telethons, which resulting in over 1500 residents, receiving previously unclaimed benefits and also more recently, a joint campaign with policy and practice and members of the voluntary community. So sector which is a very important relationship. So 40 residents awarded a total of 1863,000 and attendance allowance. The next data lead campaign. Beginning in almost a minute imminently, we’ll focus on temporary. Accommodation residents who are eligible for, but by not be claiming but not be claiming residents, who receive a text message plus a follower phone call to check your situation and offers a help to apply where appropriate we hope to help around eight people, take up personal independence and other associated benefits across this campaign. Thank you. That’s a baffled. You have a supplementary Nothing. Okay, thank you very much. Connect that’s been in love. Thank you very much. I just wondering if you had exact statistics on how many residents you’ve helped. To apply for the pension credit. Specifically, do you know what what number that is out of the 2000 plus Please. Madam Speaker Council’s Procedural. 10.11 provides that the Council asking a question. May ask a supplementary if the counselor asking the question does not wish to do so another counselor may ask the supplementary question. If the speaker agrees there is only one supplementary permitted and it must arise directly from the original question or reply and must not be a speech or statement. Okay, very much. She was reply. Sorry. Cats a Chapman. I just I I do know that 195 residents were ordered a total of 1.2 million invention credits, arising from the telephones. I don’t know. We’ll be others on top of that, but we can probably I’ll provide that information separately. Cancer. Chapman casser, Turbo. Thank you. Madam Speaker. I’m Hackney’s council around community. Centers are underused costly and of the inaccessible. In my world. I Youth club now Pacer use this community hall. What percentage of council runs centers and in regular and accessible community used for hackney residents. Thank you. Candidate. Okay, sorry. Thank you, Madam Speaker, and thank you for your question, character. The love you raise. An important issue about the critical role that our community halls Play in our neighborhoods and especially on our council estate. I didn’t speaker these are and should be the hubs of social connection. Providing spaces to address health and well-being and also physical assets that are local communities. Can depend upon to meet for activities, gatherings and celebrations. 75 Community halls located across its housing. Estates, these are a mixed portfolio of spaces, directly managed by the Council Tras and other community stakeholders. 42 are directly managed by the Council, 27 by Tras free by tmos, and free by public community stakeholders, as of this month, 31 of the 42 Council managed halls are in regular use with bookings, taking place between two and seven days a week. 35 Out of the 42. Meet minimum accessible standards. including step-free accessibility toilets. And in addition to that public bookings, a number of halls are also used for how I think related services hauling and community engagement. And activities. The Council recognizes that regular, use does not always equate to inclusive or equitable access, which is why we are committed to addressing this. I’m very conscious that despite the recognition of the value of these spaces residents. It was a lot of work to do to ensure that all of our 75 halls are working for our residents. But we have the ambition and we have the vision to do this. A part of this work would include reviewing the types of users and activities taking place in the halls reassessing the current charging model to ensure its support community organizations and improving the governance and the oversight of these halls You mentioned your question, the youth club in your award which I know Counselor that you’re written to the mayor about on this issue. What time does a me to going to details on this? I raise this because work is underway to pilot new models of locally managed halls to provide affordable and accessible access to local people. the Council of Space Bank project is providing this in new ways to working, which is, which is taking on a more strategic approach to the use of community community assets, building relationships and knowledge of community needs with the Council and the wider VCs and how we identifying opportunities. Convening partnerships and making connections across the system. There are already great examples of this partnership model working, with a very Lloyd Center in London Fields and also the old fire station in Stoke Newington. In conclusion. Yes, we want to increase accessibility and use of our community halls. Yes. We want to make them more affordable. and yes, we want to build effective partnerships with residents and community partners to ensure that these assets are open till thank you. We have supplementary. Yes, mine is because of worker. Thank you, a really appreciate you acknowledging. Their needs for improvement. It really estabreciate. And I think that’s the way to move forward. My question now is how this can residents be part of all of those improvements a so then that they can bring the real life experience or lived experiences on the issues with booking and everything that they experience as various to accessing those spaces. Thank you. Thank you for your question. And yes, we are absolutely committed to kind of looking at how we use our community hall, and really use the process of co-production working with our tenants, with our leaseholders and community stakeholders that want to use these faces and I give you example in my own wards and on and on one of the estates where we are working, with the tra, to look at how we better use the community hall, how we make it more accessible to local communities and looking at the broad range of services. That these places can provide. So we’re absolutely committed to this and we really want this to be Co. Session. We want to be open and accountable to what we do. And to ensure that we really make it accessible to all communities. Thank you. Can I remind members that you are meant to stand when you ask a question and see, if you have a medical problem with disability, you can’t stand then a reset that but It’s part of the standard orders. Next question, I have with some cats and Michael Desmond, To the cabinet member for employment human resources and equality. This is a long distance called Council Williams as set out. And thank you, Councilor Desmond. I’m completely aware that Councilor Desmond knows, of B6 has merged with New City College. They did so on the first of August 2024 that this decision was made by the college. Recognizing that the current position was unsustainable due to its wide range of courses on offer. and continuing fall in student recruitment and the number dropping out of those already enrolled as part of New City College. The campus is now 64 College for the new September. a 25 intake, the college has struggled to overcome significant challenges, which in turn has restricted young, people’s ability to achieve their goals and pursue their desired, paths with providers, facing financial pressures, shifting demographics and changes in student ambitions. I’ve been informed that the leaders of the college of adopted an approach that will offer a blend of academic, vocational and technical qualifications. They have also, or they will also introduce new courses. Applied young people with appropriate progression, routes, The new city college in Hackney 61 College are taking preemptive preemptive measures to provide high quality education. NCC found achievement rates at B6 were poor at point of merger, outcomes. Outcomes data for 24. So, that B6 is the lowest performer among all new City College group campuses for about 16 to 18 and 19 plus cohorts achievement rates have since improved hackney six form. Leaders have acknowledged the strength, the strengths inherited from the merger. It’s all pinpointed areas where the quality and student achievements are inconsistent. Senior managers are taking an evidence. Informed and consultative approach to make adjustments and ensure staff have. A say the curriculum is being reviewed in areas where students have two higher chance of not achieving their qualifications. This is activity. This activity is also taking place at our schools-based 6 forms regardless of the consultation or review. Workman’s new students will be asked to leave the course midway and Council is taking the following action, Madam Speaker, the Council is maintaining good contact with City College has been informed about the curriculum review, which is I said, has found that able to achievement does not be check. Hackney is developing a 14 to 19 year, old strategy, and maintained schools academies NCC independent providers such as elat and employers are partners in the center. And we’re waiting a final report on the curriculum review and that’s updates on the skills agenda from that Department for Education, which expected this autumn secondary schools? I’ve just got two more points on actions that were taking at secondary schools or grappling the same issue which are considered whether or not to achieve to deliver academic vocational technical qualifications and remain viable. The Director of Education and inclusion was invited to give a statements last night at CYP meeting. He gave an update on the number of unfilled. A level places in the Post and Post 16 Capacity. Thank you. Madam Speaker. cast Desmond. Do you have supplementary? I certainly do. Thanks for that councilor Williams. I met with the new principal. Met with the new principal and two colleagues, I was on the government board of B6 for 20 years. I was shocked that they seem to want to airbrush it from history, and they treat B6 with a degree of disdaining on contempt. I was really appalled that they didn’t value the success we had in giving added value to people who hadn’t always had an academic success. That many of whom went on to go to Russell group universities. And of course my question is how to Desmond. Yes this isn’t a supplementary question. I’m coming to the question here. You need to ask a question. I’m trying to be the question. They have a great. Opportunity, Early Entry Requirements. Would you not agree that the September intake should? Okay, thank you. we are doing what is within our purview as a council to support New City, College and Hadley Sixth Form college. And we’ll certainly take your question to the college and the principles of both New City and Hackney Community College. I do want to say their Madam Speaker C Example of myself, it crosses both of our portfolios and we’ve been assured by six foot and sixth form that they are committed to providing highest quality education for our local communities. And we will work with them to this center. Very much. In your manifesto in 2023, you said you would lobby the government for rent controls. Can you describe how you’ve done this since getting elected as Matt? Thank you. Thank you. Counselor Gareth. Yes I did commit in my 2023. Manifesto to lobby for rent controls and I followed through on that commitment since being elected through the Council’s, spare a renting campaign previously known as Better Deal For Renters. We’ve made the case loud and clear private. Renters need a better deal, including fairer, rents and improved housing quality. A key part of that has been calling for more powers for councils like Hackney to control rents specifically for rent increases to be tied to inflation and real income changes This position is not just political, it’s strategic, our private sector, housing strategy, and housing strategy. Both reinforce our commitment to rent controls as part of broader affordability reform. Since taking office, I’ve worked with other London, boroughs, and city hall to push for local powers on rent setting. I’ve backed efforts from the mayor of London to create a rank control framework tailored to local needs at the same time, we strengthened local enforcement, our consulting on expanded land or licensing and provided support to renters facing unsafe or unfair conditions because we know change needs to happen. Now, not just in the future. Through London councils across party group of council leaders. I have since my election continue to push for local, housing allowance to be uprated annually. So that more of the private rented sector is affordable to hackney residents after Tauruserity that has proved to be a welcome step in the first year of our Labor government. The Renters’ rights bill, which Councilor Moema. And I have long campaigned for has made its passage through the House of Lords. I’m please see, provisions to limit rent increases to once. a year with an all-important legal, right? To challenge helped by the tenant. If they feel the increases unfair, Coupled with a ban on Section 21, no fault evictions, and an end to rent auctions at horrific rent bidding. This is a welcome step in the right direction for private tenants and hackney and of course the country. Labor’s National Manifesto includes reform of the private rented sector and I will continue pressing for the devolution of rent setting powers to councils. So we can act and affordability. Not just talk about it. Rent, controls are about fairness, stability, and dignity. And this labor council will keep fighting for Hackney renters to get exactly that. Cash garbage service. And my supplement is actually, to cancel Nicholson. I wanted to just But you received last week from Acorn regarding the Fellows, Court residents, who’ve suffered considerable disrepair and challenges over the past three years disrupted access to the hot water heater. Ask the question of the mayor. Well you let Counselor Chapman also the supplementary. Oh no because it was a different matter. It was a split. It was a split question. So you asked a question to the mayor. So you about rent and rent, renters and renters rights and then my follow-up was going to be Okay. Okay. I’ll ask a follow-up to the Met. Can you ensure that your deputy mayor responds to the Fellows, Court residents, who are suffering in their local flats and commit to make to meeting with somebody’s If I could. thank you if I could just get some clarification through you and the monitoring officer. The tabled question is about the private. Rented sector. The supplementary should that not therefore be about the private rented sector and not about a whole different department of the Council which is to a whole person. if you thank you Madam Speaker. As I said earlier, the supplementary questions must arise directly from the original question or the answer that has been given and it may not be a speech or a statement or in effect, a new question that doesn’t relate to the original question or the reply that is what the rules provide for. In my opinion, the question is out of order as it relates to a different topic. It isn’t your matter and it is a matter for you to decide whether or not you’re there to accept yourself question and then whether or not you are prepared. Lost respond to it. There are private renters there. But the supplementaries to the question. If you’ve got supplementary question to the answer, Mayor gave you I will allow you to answer it so it’s the question was about renters so the supplementary was sorry. No, I’m not about you. You Elementary to the mayor on her response or you don’t have a supplementary as simple as that. Well, if you’ve got something interesting to the mayor on her answer, yes or no. Yes, right. The notes. I found a shocking sitting and listening to this. We have residents of fellow court. We’ve got no water with and we’re judging around. If this is a supplementary or not, would you want to live like them? I don’t understand this. So I’m not sure your question. And drink cancer. Gareth please continue. Well, I’m sorry. You don’t understand it because that’s for you Cancer Garden. It’s time Burger. Thank you. and so, yeah, in relation to renters and supporting renters, as you described in your response, I wondered how you’re supporting the renters at Fellows Court. And if your deputy mayor will meet with fellows, court, renters and tenants. It’s not a second. It’s not a question, a supplementary to what? The mayor responded Council Galba. So I’m not going to ask me to respond. Thank you. He’s quite clear. So our next got cancer, Ross. But that’s Ross. Thank you. Madam Speaker. I’m delighted, I think Mary Secret Garden in Hagston. A valuable community asset. Has reopened after sudden closure last year. What steps is the council taking to ensure the garden. Remains open for residents and it’s dedicated volunteers to enjoy in the long term. thank you, Councilor Ross, and for your question, I’m pleased that you you’ve asked this question because despite the sag closure of Saint Mary’s Garden last year, I’m delighted that the Council was able to step in working with Haggerston, councilors, residents volunteers, and our community partners to reopen the garden and put a, put the place and back in action to secure. It’s long term future. We are working with one of our long-term, trusted, BCS partners, Happy City Farm. You stepped in to look after the space. And we are really grateful to all the community support and ongoing efforts by volunteers to maintain. This wonderful garden for our residents. This is about a relationship of trust that the Council has created with our VCs partners. This is demonstrated through the interim arrangements that we’ve been able to put in place quickly by working with Hackney City Farm, Hackney City Farm already has strong ties to the garden and relationships with the local community, which is why they are the right partner to take this interim plan forward for the garden and we’ve embarked on a lease for two years. In order to ensure that the site remains open during this period, and that’s a proper consideration can be given to its future use which includes remaining within community ownership and stewardship. In the meantime, volunteer garden, sessions will continue at the garden and the farm will ensure that this is in an inclusive space by working with groups, for I’m from Hackney’s diverse communities. They have plans to look at Revenue streams based on the farm’s own, social enterprise model, and explore the potential of full-time licenses on the site which should not only and create income but also add to the site security going forward. The farmer also. Look at the Changing Places facility to ensure that when the garden is open, it continues to be accessible to all of our residents. it’s important to recognize that as a council when projects, or organizations Using council assets are no longer financially viable, for whatever reason. That is, we look for long-term solutions to ensure that our residents interests and needs are protected. Saint, Mary’s Garden is an example of this, despite the challenging financial environment. Both the Council and the BCS are currently operating in, through building, effective partnerships, based on relationship, and trust, and recognizing the knowledge experience and expertise of our community partners. We can ensure that this world loved and value community asset can provide a vital service for residents going forward and for years to come Do you have a supplementary Castros? Yes, I do. It’s great to hear that. You’ve It’s great to hear that you’ve partnered with Acne City Farm. Another great space within Haggerston. I heard that you said that there’s a two-year lease with them currently, could you give them timelines or any other commitments? The Council of Made for beyond those two years. Thank you. yes, it was a really important that we gave Happy City Farm that two year lease which enables them to work with us as a council. We’ve used local councilors with the local community, and other community stakeholders to really kind of look at the long term future for this community asset. And again, you know, we want to be looking at co-production, you know, we want to be looking at how we use this asset to provide vital community service for some of our most vulnerable residents, you know, we we know someone most wonderful residents both in your ward and around the borough come and use this asset. And we want to ensure that stays in place. But of course, you know that that means resource and that means partnership and we’re very committed to building that partnership going forward and we look forward to the plans again put in place. Thank you. very much. Thank you. Tessa Walker. The next question is the last question so. Well, we’ve reached 30 minutes. Thank you Madam Speaker and it pays to be the cabinet member for XXX and which I assume is Counselor. and Council of Bramble for and Children’s Services. Young People budget who’s going to answer in her place. I’m can you provide an update on the status of all recently closed or repurposed school sites in Hackney residents board councilors and otherwise community stakeholders would like to be Aged in shaping future uses that prioritize sustainability, transparency and long-term social and community benefits. Thank you. That’s Chapman. Thank you. Council. Premier for your question, right? I’m sorry for disappointed. It’s me again in my role as a strategic property this time. Like barrels across in the London. Hackney has seen a rapid decrease in the number of school-aged children and they’re having to close schools as a result, which is heartbreaking. Both of the people for us for the pupils and for families for teachers and school staff, and for the wider communities, of which they previously paid such an important part. We now have a responsibilities, not let these building sit empty or simply sell them off. But ensure that whatever possible we can do. They remain as important public assets. That benefit our communities While there is work to do to deliver on these plans. We’re committed to keeping the communities that are invested in the future of these buildings, informed and involved and starting by encouraging organizations to put forward proposals for the coldest school site in summary, the current position with the four initial Excel Sykes are Cobblestone Primary School. The preferred option proposed for the site is for it to be leased to an organization with a sustainable plan for the for the facility experience in community engagement and offering social value. This could be a single organization or group and the local communities Particularly encouraged to express their interests will proposals, that will provide services immunities of facilities. There are benefits of the local area and its community. Our understand, the application for the invitation for expressions of interest has gone live now. Biden, Powell. Primary School is proposed to be adapted to become a special school and host extra school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities. 10, Giving more children access to support that they need closer to home. Randall Crime of Primary School and the Bova Primary School, for these sites. The councils exploring the potential to be converted into temporary, accommodation for local people in need of a home, helping alleviate the homelessness crisis. and keeping families in the borough. Further. So this is agreed as part of phase two. I think back in April, that cabinet that’s the various school will also close others 31st of August this year and I know this is in your award council, primary we have yet to make any decision on the future use of those two schools, but I’d be happy to go away and pick this up with officers. Them, get back to you with the you know I feel a response. Just don’t further to. This is great as part of phase two. Sorry, following consultation with the schools, the council’s prepared a support package to up all of those be including parents and staff directly affected by the closure to support them the transition. Thank you. supplementary, perfect has a Chapman if you get the price tonight for keeping that’s a premier. Do you have a supplement? like to thanks very much and I was a bit served by the phrase worth of possible because it must be every single school that is that’s going to be. I’m safe for community use and we would like to know really much more clearly in the week where there are tragically formal school closures and there’s a lot of heartbreak, how people apply and get involved in this and also went to sustainability, begin and end. I don’t know if you were aware, but teachers who are currently experiencing the school closures are really upset to see. They entire classrooms school equipment books, some in very good condition being skipped and destined for landfill. So we would like to know what is happening here. Though, do not have a question now, the question. Okay. So Members must ask questions. This isn’t about statement. I know. You asked it at the end, but please everybody be saints and ask a question. This isn’t about statements or grandstanding. It’s about questions. It’s members questions on. The mayor’s office information. Thank you. It’s Mitchell, Chapman. Thank you cancer, primary. Yeah, absolutely. every site will be for community use, I think is just a different kind of uses will depend on the opportunity within the site and certainly there will be available to meet some of the really serious needs in our in terms of the school that’s open to community expressions of interest that opportunities. Now open on our website. So we’ll be able to direct you to that link and that will be publicized and there’s a post on the Hackney News website and that the Council website right now. and, and with regard, I think you might be referring to Saint Dominic’s and that was a miscommunication. So as soon as we were alerted to it, we stopped that clearance and thanks to being advised by a trade union representative. So, acted very quickly to stop that Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. I’m now going to call a short a German For five minutes. So I make it five to nine. If you need, please be back for nine o’clock. Back is there from back? Thank you. Yeah, we’re going to start the nine o’clock has gone. We’ve actually nine o’clock again today. if we can move on to, I don’t item 12 which we have 15 minutes for which is he had me independent, socialist opposition, sponsor business, Had these poor record of community consultation engagement. The Council has before in item of business, some mited by the social Independent social group, Only white cats around to address the Council on the issue. Raise we have occupied minutes. members within after five minutes to debate, the issue I’ve received notification in the parts that these cases wish to speak cats have been in love cats are Potter and Castle of I recall them, in turn. If time permits, I recall, another members from across the chamber, S to build a cohesive thriving, borough. Sadly, too many hackney consultations, just pay lip service to the rules. Consultation is only genuine when it is shown to influence decisions. To make it meaningful consultation. Must start with a clear explanation about how any data gathered will be used. It must spell out what decisions are being made, how they’re made and at what stages residents will be involved. And Huntley. We know what happens when consultation expectations aren’t well, managed. Think low traffic neighborhoods. Residents were understandably outraged when majority opinions were ignored. Too many participants were insulted by wasting their time and feeling blindsided. They felt furious disillusioned and sadly resolved not to bother with culture future consultations. Personally, I favor most ltns but they do come with problems like traffic displacement and inconvenience for vulnerable residents or the emergency services. Those issues were flagged in the consultations, but by writing roughshod over them positions became entrenched and the council lost credibility, and still struggles with, trust on Ltns In fact, the public are not stupid, and they realize that in most cases whether it’s closing schools, charging those with savings for social care, support or building new homes on council estates. The decisions have often already been made. You can add to that list, raising Children’s Center fees to unaffordable levels where campaigners this evening have been denied, the chance to speak at this meeting. And all those examples, the moment to propose substantive alternative ideas was long before. Public views were sought the most, that can be hoped for are some small tweaks. So engagement must start at an early stage to be meaningful and in a place like Hackney with so many residents and economic and social disadvantage engagement, must also tackle power imbalances. That means professional planners architects consultants and the like should not be dictating terms to ordinary. people. Instead, they should value residents expertise as highly prized because it comes from daily lived. Experience residents views should be incorporated into the brief. From the outset, the Council should work with residents and stakeholders to select the teams of architects or experts, who lead the project. Only by working alongside the professionals, making joint decisions and taking collective. Responsibility can true community buy-in. Be assured. And Hackney has expertise in this field to draw on local practitioners like muff in my own ward. The keen to share the engagement models that they’ve helped develop and council offices too. Who would love more scope to roll up their sleeves on co-design with the public? Of course, that costs money, but that’s money. Well, spent for the long-term benefits of genuine community. Cohesion. And that’s some you use some imagination about funding sources and upfront percentage fee from developers for engagement, ongoing consultation, perhaps, or in the case of the long running saga of the morning lane Tesco site where the supermarket on council land operates. Rent free, why not approach? Tesco for a significant Sun in lieu of the lost rent to fund a community co-produced solution. And on that subject, why is it that the Council is the only body engaging with Tesco behind closed doors. Don’t Tesco’s customers deserve a seat at the table, too. Hackney is in the midst of a consultation credibility crisis. as if losing a judicial review about the children’s centers wasn’t enough, the housing ombudsman followed up with observations, about the council refusing to hear residents shouting about core repairs. To make up that lost ground of credibility. Hackney should immediately set minimum participation targets for consultations. It should establish consultation hot desks. the town hall, the service center, libraries and other public spaces like cafes and it should redesign its online forms to make them more user-friendly. Most Most importantly, it should engage early and meaningfully, There is, this is a warning to the Labor Party under with his rigid party Discipline ways the senior politicians to hear from the grassroots are being severed counselors and backbench MPs are hung out to dry if they challenge party policy even when they’re trying to tell the story of how the people who elected them are being harmed, If I’m going dialogue with the electorate to shape and monitor policies is the only era will thrive, we must stop riding rough, shot over residents views, Thank you very much. I’d like to begin by saying that I appreciate the efforts. But clearly residents, do not feel heard residents are actually having to do the hard graft often of consultations and community engagement, for example, as we heard the morning lanes, people space and the campaign against children’s centers closures and today, you know, we’ve had, you know, the also the campaigns, the campaigners who forced the Council’s hand in terms of getting this the pension recipients, surveyed about their feelings about their pensions being invested in companies that are facilitating genocide, and of course, we’ve also got families here today who have had to take time out of their busy schedule and they’ve surveyed families, and care and carers that these nurseries, they’re doing all of that hard work and parents offered us. In that instance, very detailed survey data and real case studies before the changes, but the council has failed to act on the public’s input and now the Council say will monitor impact after these eye, watering increases hit families wallets in September. I doubt that the Council’s monitoring will result in a reversal of these changes. If families fears are born out as we expect they will after they, you know, possibly after they leave the borrower, when it will be too late. You know how you’re going to monitor the impact on them? Then it’s not a way of making a child friendly Borrower cats I’m into I’ve got green light. Okay. Apologies. I’ll just in that case or I was confused by the light. So I’ll just wrap up residents. Have been forced to run their own consultations or even if you take these effort, seriously, if we don’t co-design chambers with brandy, love, the least we can do is listen when they try and help us get it, right? When I’m so minutes after. It doesn’t mean you carry on. Apologies. I was trying to follow the lights. Well, I’ve got cancer pattern next. Is there. Anybody else that wants to speak up of the cat’s Davis? I’ve got can you cats? And that’s a late. Thank you. The role that scrutiny is unplayed and scrutiny takes feedback from resident Seriously. And we did have feedback that the consultation is particularly with the low traffic neighborhoods, We’re an issue, so at school skills and economy growth, we heard that some some schemes have been amended where residents had expressed concerned that the skin is not working exemptions for Blue. Blue badge holders, which is not a tweak. We’re all. So introduce helping some of our most vulnerable residents in the community following fee, back office has talked about lessons learned about a greater range of engagement tools. The importance of talking to residents and businesses face to face and seeking feedback from community groups and stakeholds like the hometown hospital bringing all this together with in-depth analysis, to ensure they receive the representative Sample of voice voices. Thank you. Madam Speaker. Has to love. Thank you Madeline Speaker. Thank you Penny, really powerful. Truth about consultations in our portal, those from migrant and historically disadvantaged communities. Not too. Well what it feels like to be used for data by deny real power. We surveyed we consulted we including photos and reports to take the boxes that representation in set consultations. But when it comes to real decisions, we are left out or worse, never invited bank. We told that we’ve been involved. So the paperwork looks, right? And in truth is a process that too often feels performative. One that that’s not reflected respect dignity or seriousness of our voices is that this has been made painfully clear in the way the consultation on the Council is Constitution, for example, has been conducted what should have been a general opportunity for strengthen participation has instead have the time and space available for residents to rate the issues that matter most to them. That’s not democracy, is exclusion in these guys and is that expense of public funds? We are not engaging communities. We are in sometimes. Thank you. You’ve got 20 seconds, cancel divers. If you want to use 10 20 seconds, And I know in the Hatley Labor, Manifesto in 2022 that you had a commitment to regular and localize citizens assemblies on climate, which have never really materialized citizens durian. Assembly are two different things, which is a shame. We also heard earlier about participated budgeting from a resident, which would be great to see particular where we do have hard prioritization decisions to make in our financial position and the last thing, Good try. Thank you to everybody. I’m afraid those who have want to speak the reasons. next time. There’s no time cats. Lynch was trying to come into us. So what cancer Kenzie if you’d like to respond, please? Thank you very much. Madam Speaker, look, I’m responding in my capacity as cabinet lead for comms in an ideal world. We would consult engage and co-produce on absolutely everything. We did as a council, we don’t live in that ideal world. We provide over 500 services to a court of a million residents. It’s just not possible to do that all the time. We do have one big important general consultation, every four years, local elections, Madam Speaker, the Hackney Dependent Socialist Group have bought this motion this business tonight. We’re elected to this chamber. when they left Hackney labor, they did spare as the cost of by-elections and that is to be applauded. Thank you. But we had a general election in this country last year the perfect opportunity to engage with residents and at very little extra costs, that would have been had you all resigned, then one extra ballot paper. In two wards, Surely Madam Speaker, the cell style champions of resident engagement would take that chance to see if their votes are still wanted to be represented by his counselor, but no, they didn’t take that opportunity to find out what their residents think, but they have taken the opportunity to bring opposition business today and tell us that we do a bad job of finding out what our residents think. Thin ice Madam Speaker skating on very thin ice. nonetheless, nonetheless, the proposals that you put in, in the paper that you put forward, they do reflect a shared recognition that good engagement is essential for building trust and delivering effective. Local government. But on trust. You’ve got it wrong, you imply, we’ve lost the trust of residence. The evidence is otherwise, I’m afraid the latest resident survey 2024 73% of happening residents. It’s on the council website. Go and check it out. Trust the Council a great deal or a fair amount that’s up from 67% that’s From 67% in 2022 and well ahead of the national benchmark of 53 Percent. This Council. And how we talk to residents is 20% more trusted than the average Council. Now we’re not complacent about that. We know trust varies. We know it’s lower among some groups. We take that seriously, we do listen, please don’t characterize, as it’s not listening on Ltns. You heard What? Counselor Potter said, Every single ltn proposal has been altered to some extent by a result of consultation and you imply that there’s a huge great Labor Party out there the government’s not listening to anyone on pit on winter fuel, we happen Are spoke to the government. And the government listened, it was happening labor politicians, driving, that over the past year. Our comms and consultation team run over 80 consultations 9,000 participants the engagement platform received 270,000 visits. We’ve invested in an updated consultation and engagement toolkit. We’ve created a cross-council community of practice every department engaging properly. We’ve offered staff training on co-production consultation law and relational practice, all of that out of our own review into the Children’s Center consultation, we didn’t lose the JR. We simply realize that we probably would on a technicality on a technicality. Go and read the report. That’s also on the Council website. We do co-production really well at the moment. We’re working to improve the outcomes of black children and young people that co-production is co-led with a resident accountability. Board and the fairer help Early intervention model is being developed with community partners and I’m sorry on Morning Lane. We are talking to residents, We are talking properly to residents. We’re engaging them, in shaping designs early on on digital divide. We know there is a digital divide in Hackney, that’s why we use paper and we talk to people face to face. We go to library. So we go to stations, we go to supermarkets, we go to schools, to reach our residents where they are and find out what I think feedback and transparency, you’re absolutely right. This is critical, we should boast more about how we have changed our ltms, as a result of public feedback, we’re going to get better at doing that on citizen space in closing chair. I just want to say there was a premise in this business today that we have poor consultation and engagement services. That is not true. We have a hard working and effective content engagement team and the work they do is good. Thank you. Give Castle candidate, right? We now come to item to work 13 on the agenda which is the labor motion together. Against violence towards women and girls. The Council. I understand the Council is going to proposed by Cancer, Ross and seconded by captains. Joint amendments have been received from the green and at the independent Socialist Group which have not been accepted by the proposal and seconder Before this motion is considered, can I ask all those making speeches and contributions debate to be succinct in their comments? In accordance with the Council of Procedure role. The total time for this promotions should not exceed, 30 minutes. Cancer, Ross, and Cancer’s. Tinas, please write a right hand to indicate with boat. You are going to propose and second emotion. Can’t thank you. Counselton Cancer. Can you confirm whether you wish to speak after cats are Ross introduces emotion or reserve your right speak lighter working Sorry sorry. Nothing speak at the traffic, lights, aren’t working. And I think I just want to support members speaking later in the meeting. There’s not working. Yeah, I understand they’re not working, but the monitoring officer is Thank you. so, Yes. Thank you for sure. Okay, cancel tennis. Can you confirm whether you wish to speak after Ross, introduces the motion or reserve your right to speak later? I wish to speak Arthur. As a Ross. You have up to five minutes. I rise to move this motion. One woman is killed by a man, every three days. Black women are disproportionately affected. Domestic abuse. Offenses of newly doubled in the last decade and vogue is still under reported The scale of violence is devastating including here at home in Hackney behind closed, doors in every ward. And every street. There are women and girls living in fear. Whether in romantic or familiar relationships separated from their abusers on a night out, or simply going for a walk, the threat of violence on murder remains real The recent murder of a devoted mother in our borough and about by her male partner has rocked us all While we appreciate this is not a regular occurrence and happening. It deeply saddens us. May her soul. Rest in power. Neither will we forget our sisters who have gone before her and similarly murderous ways at the hands of men? Vogue doesn’t end in murder. Still destroys lives. Sexual violence and assault, Rex women and girls, physically immensely. Psychological abuse and coercive control can be just as devastating as physical harm. Alongside a range of physical health issues, caused by violence and abuse survivors, as significantly more likely to experience long-term. Mental health impacts with broad, being a leading cause of PTSD amongst women and girls. We are three times more likely to attempt suicide. But this is not a women’s issue. It is a community issue, a justice issue, a public health emergency This motion reaffirms our commitment and support for women girls and survivors. not just in principle, but in practical measurable ways. Hackney Council already. Does amazing work supporting survivors and championing community-based prevention. Hackney’s Domestic Blues Intervention Service supported over 1300 residents in the past year and received respect accreditation. What happens has a model received, Domestic, Abuse Housing, Alliance accreditation, Domestic abuse has been reported as one as the highest causes of homelessness amongst women in the UK and a huge barrier to leave in an abusive relationship. Hackney’s innovations including launch in UK’s. First domestic, whose protocol was social, landlords, a crucial for survivors and their children. These aren’t after forts, they’re part of his evil tolerance. Commitment to gendered violence. I’m proud of the leadership, shown across housing safeguarding and public health in this space. Labor is pledged to have walk in a decade in this motion supports that aim by ensuring both remains a priority. We want women and girls to feel safe, they all night online or in person in public spaces and in their own homes. Converts were not starting from zero far from it, but we still have work to do. Logan, Hackney demands culturally sensitive interventions with a deep understanding of the intersectional and generational nuances at play. In the face of rising need chronic and defending the Latin impact of Toriel’s and a surge in toxic masculinity misogyny and misogynia. We must be relentless in our efforts to eliminate bulk and all its forms. We have to make the streets of happening streets of safety. To do this is vital, our survival-led whole system. Approachments all our services, and that we tackle the root causes of walk. Start with our children, young people who education urgent all schools and colleges to embed as evil tolerance approach. Is also crucial that we continue to champion our specialist, foreign-force services and work in partnership with our voluntary and community sector room. Continue to fill the gaps with compassion expertise and trust supporting Black and global majority. Women lbtq people, disabled survivors and others are often to to often overlooked from space to Claudia Jones Organization, and Latin American women. They have these women sectors always been b****, strong and truly reflected of happiness diverse communities. So tonight let’s speak with one voice and stand together with women and girls with survivors with services. And with each other in staying every woman, every girl, we believe you. We stand with you and we will not stop until you until we are safe. I commend this motion to counsel Thank you, everybody cancer tin as you have free minutes, thank you very much. and we’ve tried and urgency violence against women and girls is not just a national crisis is happening here in Hackney. And as a councilor Ross has mentioned, is happening. Often behind closed doors. Let’s be clear this issues. touches. All of us, whether it’s a local. So whether it’s a close family, member or a close friend, every single one of us within this chambers has a connection to this crisis. This motion isn’t just about statistics. It’s about real people. It’s about the woman walking home in hacking Central who doesn’t feel safe the teenage girl endorsed, and who’s told told that her voice? Doesn’t matter the woman suffering in silence because they’re too afraid or too unsupported to us for help. But yet Hackney isn’t standing still. We are proud to be the only borrower with the intergenerational domestic abuse. Protocol as mentioned by Councilor Rose. And we are the only council whose risk assessment includes Anti-races Lgbtq+ and disability inclusive. Practice are Hackney nice. Campaign is set in new standards for safety in the nighttime economy. We know there’s more to be done, this motion calls on us to remove how we commissioned services to protect and strengthen by and for organizations and to work directly with survivors, to shape, our next strategy, it calls for proper education in every school on healthy relationships and consent. This is about action reaction and loss and changes less. Second this I second this motion not just as a counselor but as a father of two daughters and as a member of this community. So let’s make Hackney a bar that leads with compassion, carriage and purpose. Thank you. Madam Speaker. Thank you cancer. Tennis for second in the motion are now come to the amendments. They, I’ve got they are going to be proposed by cancer, garment and cats and seconded by cats are turbot alone. At Gareth. Can you write a right hand include so that you wish to speak? Thank you. so, Yeah. And cancer Herbert’s. Hello, you’re gonna second okay, cancel. I don’t permit to lose. Sorry, do you wish to speak after cats agava? Or you do want to do? Okay, so council’s, girl, but you have five minutes that’s allow you have free. Thank you. Thank you. I’d really like to. Welcome this motion. Put forward my councilor roster and councilor tenaz and just recognize all of our deep concern about this. As you say, public health crisis and also the disportionate impact on black women, as well as the amazing organizations that exist in Hackney and our amendment just spoke to add some elements, you know obviously we don’t change the core of the motion. It was just adding to things that we thought would strengthen some of the framing. So we explicitly wanted to mention misogyny you know the hatred of women and the fact that misogyny is a driver of male dominance and male violence and seeing women is lesser. So we wanted an explicit mention of misogyny. We also wanted to acknowledge the structural issues that impact women disproportionately around. Well, they’re welfare, there were wellness and they’re sustainability especially around disproportionate impacts around the welf System financial strain and experiences of homelessness. And we also in recognizing what you’ve just said about grants and women against women and girls going run, the reported, which is a huge concern. We wanted the metropot failings within the Metropolitan Police to be recognized within the motion because they have been recognized as being institutionally misogynistic It was accepted by the Mayor of London, from the Baroness Casey Review of a couple of years ago. So we need to see that institution addressing its misogyny. It’s called the way it treats its female officers, the way that it treats women on the streets because the harm is perpetuated by the police and then causes women to be unable to report. And it go under reported. This was also recognized in the Angelini Review that was reported the next year around the dire failings of the Metropolitan Police into, not being with and the feelings of women that they don’t and properly, look into things like indecent exposure. So talking to many women about how the fact that they just stop reporting things. And we know indecent exposure is a likely indicator of And violence and so they cannot be absent, you know, we’ve got a huge responsibility within this council to hold the police to account and I think they’re missing from this motion is is a big gap. And we also wanted to add to the resolves which included just to make them a lot, bolder and clearer and just really kind of pack a punch to the end of the motion because I think it’s it holds really good and information but I think the results make it and quite weak. So we just wanted to change words like work towards preventing to campaign against and we wanted healthy relationship Education to be to be put into law and we wanted to continue to support and we added a whole extra resolve at the bottom which was to continue to support initiatives. For men, who are you, who have used abuse against women, especially intimate partners. No willing to address yet to make sure that they can address their behaviors. And I’m going to leave some of the other elements around migrant women and intersectionality to cancer. But to laugh some of which I know you’ve picked up in your introduction, but those are elements that we were also adding. I just wanted to take this opportunity to just reflect on an announcement that was made by the government was in the last week. We do here that violence against women and girls is prioritize, but when it comes to funding, it feels That’s extremely lacking. The Labor minister made an announcement of 53 million over a four-year period, which I think is absolutely pittance and shocking. It was called Landmark. I don’t think anyone feels that 53. Million nationally over four years is landmark divided evenly that’s for about 400k per tier one authority in England. And well, so about 100k years, so, about a month for about half a worker in a few posters. I worked out. So I think that shocking and I think the Labor government has made a commitment to half violence against women. and girls. The decades obviously we’ve lost a year. So that’s nine years from now. And I just don’t know how you’re going to do that with 53 million over for the next four years. So I think that’s incredibly worrying. And I know that came in after this motion, but if we can do anything to raise the alarm, that’s not going to be anywhere near enough for Hackney Council, then. I think we need to use this opportunity and just over sorry to interrupt you. But I’ve been inform, what your sign isn’t the part your amendment, okay? I’ll just wrap up then. So the motion is titled Together Against Violence Against Women and Girls and we did bring these mode, these motion amendments in good space and we do want to be included in that together. So the together felt like it was excluding some of our contributions but we do wholeheartedly share ambition and we’ll work and vote for the motion and amend it. Thank you. Thank you, cancer servant to law. Could you stick to the amendment place? while the Mag statement? Thank you. Mother Speaker. Can I ask how long do I have? How long, how long, for how of three minutes? I just gonna come my time. Thank you. That’s all right. You just because I’m also partially when I finally difficulties to be tricky. Thank you, thank you. Man is bigger. Um thank you councilman Ross. I’m really as a survivor myself of violence against women like girls and not working and now Very supporting women free in the views. I’m very proud to support this motion and so they make that we have put forward is about areas that we feel and as a micro woman is missing in the motion, I’m sure that all members in the wrong we want to in the chamber. Was at risk yet, there denied access to the same housing, refugees refuge. Sorry, and basic support. Simply because of the immigration state. I’m not going to take too long, but I wanted to add that I’m delighted to hear of the recognition of the projects that you mentioned Counselor. Russ, especially for Claudia’s project and the Latin American Women’s and have a huge appreciation myself. They are the first and only Latin American women organization offering Refuge for Women, playing the news and I’m really, really pleased that I recognition for the incredible work. Now, to conclude, I want to say to all members that you for serious about ending domestic violence for all women and girls, we must confront this injustice held on. We must piper protections. They include every woman, regardless of background paperwork, Hackney must lead, by example. And ensure that no woman is left behind. And this must include women in mind, we may not access to public to Public Request Public funds. Thank you. Hey members wish to debate the amendments on which direct religions to the vote major amendments. Thank you very much. Yes, I’ll just like to add on these amendments that I’ve noticed. So a this is, we’re moving to the boat and I thought, you know, We’re not debating amendments if I understand it. And I’m now put a members and there’s any member has rejected. I intend to do with most amendments on mass those in favor of gay moments. Okay, thank you. There’s a Galaxy amendments. Those extensions. I’ve declared the moments are not carried. Will then move on substantial debate. I’ve been notified. That I’ve got. That’s a chance and that’s a golden. Cancer. She’s so wrong. That’s supposed to. We’re talking about. I’m sorry, you’re upset over about the most. That someone go out and come. Frank has. so I would not repeat sorry, I’m happy notified that I have got Cancer golden. So that Potter, I don’t realize Martin’s and I’ve seen that’s Shivan and has been And I think that’s it. Madness Speaker nearly five decades of past since I fled to one of the first women’s aid refugees in the country with my two year old daughter. I was glad to be safe, but it wasn’t a happy place and I still had to look over my shoulder Every time I went out, I could only rebuild my life by leaving the area and with it, the friends who supported me. Because ingenious to say it’s been no chambers since then, and he discrimination lawlessly, inactive by labor, governments means that if we can cross opportunities, we have a right every dress. If those rights tonight. One housing, too, that our government has committed to continue this work. But does it mean that there has been radical change towards women? No. The backlash is simply more insidious and easier to medicine in the past. and there are new homes online and in the increasingly harmful trails of women in pornography, that display women as passive, or even willing, recipients of male violence. We know this because the measure of women and girls continues as an unabated race. Consumer actor, despite taking refuge, was not safe from her violence and controlling partner life’s ruined because a woman did to say no to her killers. he goes to demands. Semicide is a sharp end of the misogyny. The stove lights, women’s life globally. They Afghan women banned by force from speaking public or women here silenced and dismissed for voicing our views or lesbians whose existence is a raised by regressive ideology. While the work done by this council supporting victims of sex face, violence is commendable. The causes of no violence will not have changed until women can speak freely without fear of Maryland aggression. So images of women who tres as honest available until men’s discomfort, hearing our voices is owned by them. So then I’ll write for our safety are under threat in ways of both obvious and subversive and are struggle to hold on to our rights will continue. Thank you. Thank you, member speaking. I have put them in it. I’ve got cancer school next. Thank you. Imagine Speaker, sorry. The Lionesses are the UK’s most successful national sports team. Last night had reverberated with chairs following the change Euro Semifinal victory against Disney However, this brilliant team of women led by equally bring it woman. Manager does not have equality with their male counterparts. Not only, they not pay the same, but we shallowed to men. Chloe Kelly in the start of Celebrate, their achievements, the bars are packaging, and I hope they do like all women. They would need to plan their night out to ensure their safety. They need to make sure that something knows where they won’t plan to get home. Despite universe measures taken by the Council’s. Licensing team, working with responsible license soldiers. Women do not have equal access to safe enjoyable nights out in the borough and can’t walk around even daylight with freedom. Even starts, like all women are subjected to human humiliating and degrading behavior seeking to objectify them. It’s not a woman in this chamber. No women and hackney or elsewhere should be subject behavior with objectifies and humiliation sexual harassment to form of violence to creates a climate interfered intimidation that normalizes, harmful behavior and creates conditions. Freedom, more serious violence, we must not tolerate it Tessa’s that. Thank you, Madam Speaker and I fully support this motion and command the work of the Council. yeah, I fully welcome this motion and commend the work of council’s already, doing to tackle violence against women and girls and to provide vital services to support victims across our borough, but it’s Council of Charlton, it’s already rightfully said, The only way to eliminate violence against women and girls is to address the root cause the problem, and at the heart of this issue on misogyny and masculinity, that is the attitude. Men commonly hold. And the way we behave and a society which so often excuses, these behaviors So I’m really glad to see your resolution in this motion about educating young people about healthy relationships and I ask that the council invest as much time and resource as possible and to support in any initiatives that educate people on respect and sense and equality in the context of gender and just on this note, I want to finish with a short poem from the Scottish author and penny for themselves, a victim of domestic violence at the hands of a man. It’s called Boys, will be boys. Boys will be boys, who will say, who will be men soon enough. And if all that, we teach them is how to be tough. They will learn the misguided ubiquitous notion that anger is anything, but an emotion. We must teach them strength in their vulnerability, show them, that’s a kind heart, doesn’t evoke credibility. We must let our boys cry and then let them sing. Let them sobbing him and feel every we think that a human should know, they can feel an express. Remove, all the rules on how they ought to dress. Let them set their own boundaries be hurt and forgive let them see that toxicity is no way to live. always will be boys who were one day be mad and with respect some boundaries hopefully then they’ll see no as a sentence that is full and complete and not as a challenge that is there to be. Teaching to care. Sorry. teach them together for both themselves and others create standards to which they can hold their brothers. Love them without apology, fearless and loud. So our boys will be boys that will make this all proud. Thank you. How nice? Thank you. Very I’m so sorry to see a sister in distress. And I wish he could hear what I have to say. I would remind her that last year. we in this castle we had 16 days of activism and we specifically had a joint event with that American words ahead. And we had another extreme event on the critical importance of culturally tutored, services and referral pathways. And we continue working in partnership with black global majority. Violence against women and girls agencies. I hope that. Cancel that alarm can hear me. When I say to her, this is my story too. And when violence crept out, the shadows came from me. I would have been really grateful for 16 days of activism and all the things that the Council does online. I’ll go translated Intervention Service. Leaflets Our safety planning contact details. our protocol and our young people’s gender, screening programs. We are the foundation, Adversion. wealthy of all about, Pigment speaker. Thank you. Is there a second? Thank you. Great great. Okay, thank you very much. I have now got Thank you. Adam Speaker. And some of when I was going to say, has been said to be very, very sure. And I’m just saying violence against women and girls including street-based harassment as an issues to many women and girls. And their families in and round and the physical area. I’d like to thank the Council for a lot of the work they do working with hospital, boundaries with faith and local community groups, as well as the police have this motions whole life. There’s so much more to do and I welcome, you brings to read focus of efforts, particularly to address, the route courses, and all also willing to correct safe environments for women and girls in all. How you? Very much. I’d like to thank Councilor Ruston Councilor to now, for bringing this motion to council. I think it’s both so sobering horrific to consider that despite most crimes still remaining only quartered. 25% of women. That’s around 5.1 million of US report having experienced some form of abuse before the age of 16. For those events that are survivors, most remain hidden was continued to bear the pernicious, physical and mental scholars of trauma. The impact is both profound and long-lasting and often carried across generations. This is indeed a national emergency and one which requires an emergency response and as the government’s highlighted political and social and institutional responses to walk must continue to evolve and coalition as the nature of defenses involved. In terms of the perpetrators, despite the client media would have as believed there is no one type of man or boy that carries out these crimes. There’s no one culture in which these offenses are allowed to permeate. Rather, there are universal symptom of society. Which means patriarchal and increasingly sudanistic Ensuring, we get to a place where no child go a woman expect to experience brutalization, mental, trauma, or even death. He’s our collective responsibility. And with this does come education. this motion puts forward tangible, proposals in furtherance of this, and ensuring. We must we have the services we need as our response, continues to develop. It must always taken a diversity of survivors. So that despite the widely disparities for black minoritized communities, any women or girl of any background is able to access services, enlightenment with their individualized needs. along with what ongoing work on to take about cabinet leave and please say that living happily will also be looking at for and the partnership response across your authority. Once again This is Arnold it’s all to be upstanded. Thank you very much. Thank you. I apologize to members. I said, overall, I’ve asked the Catholic members to run some and then we’ll go to vote. So much and I just say thank you to all the contribution to this motion and rosemount. I completely agree that we need to work together to talk about entering games and then our girls having said that I’m very very proud of our record as in leading council talking about that against women and girls in the UK, some of my colleague of Mitchell. Some of the work we have done that videos that number one in this country, including the false public REM consultation on women safety in 2022-2023, being the first borrowed to have the desert vegetation, only a country and all the other world we have. We have done, oh, just to put things in contest and I’m sorry. Cancel the lowest of say before he left in. How can you we have two boards in terms of talking about dancing games, We have this strategic board and we have the operational board the operational, but we have over 30 Organization, Community Organization Day, the majority of those organization are organization that support my brand refugees people from black and global majority. In HACKNEY, We repurpose the more platforms for those acne and commissioned, emergency, one of the local organization that How you feel in Hackney that’s specifically as specifically supporting Black and global majority women that might be survival and victim of violence against women. In terms of what he was saying, Of course, have domestic abuse interventional service, sorry Madam Speaker, while there’s no barrier that I just when it comes to accessing refugees. Sorry, cancel the alarm. Actually a couples are in terms of intersectionality. I’m so sorry. Madam Speaker. We we are of these and we have been working the leaders up on that equality. With your time is up on the equality, I’ll finish here model speaker. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Very much. Madam Speaker, but just want to make those points that people have made to respond in terms of what we are doing, proud of the world, we’ve done with their GPT close community. Thank you. I’m trying to keep time not talk tonight so everyone gets so much and don’t wait. and everyone’s passionate about Robertson, can’t do all items, 14 at which we have seven minutes while you know, Woodley to induce report you have up to five minutes. so, Sorry. Sorry. I was I’m just hate the motion those in favor. Now, as you found you having that feeling reminisce. Right. Feet actually, anonymous. Thank you very much and tell you, sorry, members. It was the instruction that I And I did have to me, so I can’t answer the Months because I’m trying to take less time. away you have other writing to get through in my early statement, I set out how Hackney strategic plan continues to guide us through the major changes. We face particularly around housing, inequality and climate I want to thank colleagues across the chambers for your continued support and delivering that work. But continue working our commitment to deliver our thousand new social went homes with 956 underway. There was that benchmark for quality and community and social housing. We’re now consulting a new London licensing, scheme to ensure that lands meet their responsibilities and tenants have safe and secure homes to live in. And we’ve introduced our new supporting residents with additional East to thrive policy. As part of our mission of housing improvement, we continue to fight against poverty over. 90,000 have these residents have received fighter support through the household support and without ranging from few packages and energy payments to Taylor device and emergency cash, assistance, we have invested over two million of this fans. Specifically into food. No family should know. Chinese continued, his journey toward becoming a borough of sanctuary and more than 400 refugees. Migrants and asylum. Seekers have been supported through our welcome hub, to ensure they get the festival starts their lives in the UK and our new children and families are now delivering coordinated, early health, providing reference support for families, facing financial hardship, housing security, and complex needs. with completed protected cycle lanes, along the full length of May Bridge Road making it safer and easier to walk from cycle. We offer all primary school children’s cycle, training, and in February, the Council had success, we delivered cycle training to 1300 children and 331 adults on counting. We’ve launched, Keeper Greener Energy Charis for council tenets and expanded our renewable energy programs, The Happy Life Empowers Solar Pilot is already benefiting 45 states and the Hackney Green Jobs and Skills Action plans and ensuring that our residents, that benefiting from alcoholism. The new green Skills Club Elizabeth launched in March as offering specialist training, insulation and retrofit techniques 180 residents, but the goal of securing, a hundred, thirty green jobs over two years. And we’re serious about our green spaces this month 33. Parks and green spaces. We’re awarded green flag, status and natural recognition of quality. And this place is a joint. First, in London, tied with Westminster. Daniel Update. Also tells it why the story when a resilience and progress across all the services that make this apparent a place that we are. People are proud to call how you I’ll stop there. Just as in the interest of time. Thank you, Speaker. So wrong. Apologies, thank you Ministry of the Plan. Sits out the challenges as well as supposed. the other update provides an overview of progress, made and clarifies the scale of ongoing challenges. The resident survey feedback is helping to share our organizational planning and performance approach. Community is at the heart of this labor administration and we are changing together and securing our future together. We welcome the LTA Corporate Review Challenge in 2024 and this was a sign of the mature administration. Going forward, we have the Equality plan 2026, the upcoming people, strategy 2025 2026, and the wellbeing strategy 2024 or 2026. This shows that this labor administration has a structured and unified approach to workforce development and community eng. And it is to be commended. Thank you Mother Speaker. New concert. much. There is a lot to commending the strategy, but I just like to point out one As you mentioned around the, solar pilot that’s around. So obviously we’ve declared a client emergency over six years ago, but yet the solo scheme for estate residents is still a pilot scheme and we’re concerned about the lack of pace and so we’d like to see these things for a long time because there is a risk that Thank you very much. Can we not the report? Not say, thank you very much. Awesome 15. We have five minutes. I’d like to get the care project, Manchester, support complete, you have three minutes. You speak into the mic, I know you can’t. You don’t have Stanley. You’ve got budgeting speaker. Thank you. Mother Speaker. I’ll try to be quick if I’m mindful of the time. So first, I just like to apologize to members for the errors, that occur today. So you haven’t had as much time as what we would have wanted to have, read the report, but hopefully you have so bead appointed as a cherry of audacity remains a privilege in a responsibility that I take extremely, seriously, the members are also collectively aware of the importance of field activities independence. So that we’re able to effectively uphold the council standards around, good governance control risk management, and financial reporting. the Audit Committee reflects the SIT for recommendation, that there is clear that a nation between order and security functions. Even those these can be complementary processes and will and we will always work constructive. ly the use of cancer reserves is something, the audit committee will continue to keep under careful review. And we’ll be monitoring the expected outcome of the transformation program to ensure that we remain from HD resilience. When the Lga peer review visited last September, it was unfortunately disappointing. Given the committee’s independence, commitment to best practice plan of interest that we were not invited to take part despite other councils ensuring that they’re all different committers, included in peer review. However, I mean credibly pleased that this year following a rigorous recruitment process, the audit committee, welcomes two, new independent members, Anthony Marsh and Miriam Doyan solo, This additional level of independent security is much welcomed and ensures. We continue to reflect the highest standards for audit community are set out by sit for I wish to extend a warm, welcome to our new sexual 141, officer name, Ahmed, and look forward to carrying on working with them as the next municipal year. I know that I will continue the exit work that was delivered previously by our late Jackie or not late recently. Departed Jackie Moreland. He provided exceptional support to the audacity. Yes, I am pleased that a core of officers including Digital and Michael Sheffield will continue to support the audit committee. And I really want to give thanks to both Major and Michael’s teams and their support to me. I’d also like to have the previous Audit Committee Vice Chair Council in Richmond. I welcome the new vice chair, Councilor, Ben, Lucas and finally my thanks to Counselor Robert Chapman cabinet lead for resources and to all the members of the audit committee which includes representations across the political parties, in Hackney and in support and support me to be an effective and fair share of order. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Thank you. I’ve been notified that cancer Premio and that’s Lucas which to speak. I’ll call cancer from you. Thanks very much and thanks for the good works. The order committee. I didn’t want to ask with regards to risk. and how we might in terms of international law. And reaching that whereby, the Pensions Committee is still really tracking its hails on divestment. In, in the case of an international genocide. Now, I know there’s been has been legal advice from with currently but those lawyers are very Israel friendly. We know that I’m secretary has been asked about physical, we know that he’s also very Israel friendly and it’s been very slow to move on this situation. We’re now the daily it’s Christ. The Daily Express is saying saying, Stop this horror. And we need to, we need to free Palestine and we need to feed Palestine. So can we look at the risk of continuing to fund arms sales to kill children and genocide in Israel? Thank you as part of the scrutiny. Thank you. So I can use disappointed, all the cat society. I’d like clarification and what? Sorry, I’d like clarification and what Israel friendly means. Some point holder. Well, I’ve got cancer Lucas. and then catch the Chapman. Sorry, Chad, yes, it’s only a hold of from his question first second. I’ve got cancer Lucas, I’ve been running out a time, you won’t have time to buy anything so Okay, thanks very much. One speaker. Just ready to quickly reiterate. What my S1 friends and Chambers committee and counseling was saying around really welcoming this report. I think we oversee critical. Perhaps doesn’t always get the spotlight there deserves on audit committee but really proud of the work that we do. I think it speaks to strong relationship with building over time with the audit partners and officers and others throughout the teacher supply chain. If you like him, we achieve another qualified opinion which is testament to so prudent, open accessible financially and you know, sensible approach the Council’s taking on its finances and again just to welcome independent members who already having a big impact and also to pay tribute to you just thank you. Subscribe. Thank you. Commend this report to the Council. Thank you Speaker Just in 30 seconds I wanted to obviously. Thank all the members of the audit committee. Thank all the members Deal committee for the really important what they do. They both Council Lynch and with all the members participated at the point, really wanted to emphasize is that the Audit Committee and the report it makes to us is a really important part of our assurance, right? He’ll be relied upon by observers looking around counts and make sure that I always financially stable and is treated his finances. Seriously. And that’s really important when we look at this body. And take, not only Committee’s responsibility relation to seriously with all our own, thank you. We’ve got four minutes, so minutes for the, can you? Like, find out their home. So we’ve got four minutes. So press homemade from the cabinet member until Mitchell’s journalistic. so, thanks man. I’m speak out very brief before. I would like to, I’d like to about the chair of licensing to say a few. Well, that’s well this report before you highlighted the activities of the license service between 2023 and 20, 25 and cover three main areas of the function of the licenses, the licensing up, 20 2003, which deals which make tree of alcohol sales as well as policy development. The second is they treat life, you know, treatment massage dance and the last beat of these reports, talk about 2005, which calls us activity such as you. Before I divide the chair of licensing, just want to say thank you to everyone a colleague of the licensing community for your commitment. It is a huge community. Now very grateful for your work. That’s not. Thank you very much better Speaker. I would like to thank Thomas. The deputy chair of the Licensing Committee license. And hard work over the past two years. Looking at our performance made on speaker, I’m pleased to see the happiest witnessing a genuine recovery, you know, local economy with the highest economic growth in London, premises license applications have been consistently rising with three consecutive years the clear sign, the business is a confident about investing in our area again. In Timeouts, Ultimate Guide to London’s Best published Yesterday. Happy Parts and Happy World holds the number one spot and we have four brothers on the top 10 or 16 bars. The top 50 We also have three audio inclusive venues making love music, more accessible for newer, diversion part of hearing, in noise sense, of individuals. But on speaker, what particularly impresses me is how we’ve made term maintain service, quality. Well managing this increase combinance. Our temporary event notices are climbing back toward prepandemic levels showing up against once again, hosting events and celebrations. I want to especially the hard work On our major projects, thereby statement of licensing. Policy is now effect. We have published a new SBA and shortage are Hackney Knight’s strategy as launched. And we’ve successfully implemented online. 10 submissions reducing to bureaucracy for businesses. Once improving our efficiency, The licensing teams commitment to risk-based, inspections and enforcement insurers. We’re supporting legitimate business as well as maintaining public safety and getting a good balance between businesses and residents aspirations. The fact that our review applications of return to normal level suggests for getting the balance right? But on speaker as we moved into 2526 with our new sales for system. We’re well positioned to serve our community even more effectively. Thank you to everyone involved, you know who you are for making this progress possible. I commend this annual report to the Chamber Watching. And And I like to put everybody to follow. For some refreshments. And before we depart from, I’d like to say very special. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry, just two minutes. I just like to say a very special, thank you to Eric Boateng. Who’s been? The most embarrassing 2022. Eric has stage, Fastly, supported the speakers. we’ve dedication, dignity, and diligence. in May spare and roll full council meetings as well as every event such as Daniel Mays Associates, Westminster Abbey and the Capital simply the annual Remembrance services and parades and also the passing of our light Green Elizabeth, And the program proclivation of the new suffering. Thank you very much. Eric, you’ll be sadly missed. Thank you very much engage. If you’re able, please be upstanding for the speed over an apple.