Issue - meetings

To present Cabinet with the recommendations from the members’ overview and scrutiny task group which was set up to review contextual safeguarding.

RESOLVED: That the report and five recommendations contained therein, of the Overview and Scrutiny Task Group on Contextual Safeguarding, be noted.

Councillor Muhammed Butt, Leader of the Council, welcomed Councillor Orleen Hylton to the meeting. Councillor Hylton introduced the report and presented Cabinet with the recommendations from the members’ overview and scrutiny task group which was set up to review contextual safeguarding.

Councillor Hylton stated that Contextual safeguarding is a commitment in the

Borough Plan 2019-2023, and safeguarding was felt to be a highly relevant area for a scrutiny review in terms of corporate priorities as well as meeting concerns of the borough’s residents.

Councillor Muhammed Butt thanked the other members of the Task Group -

Councillor Patterson and Councillor Donnelly-Jackson and Councillor Hylton for chairing the group.

Councillor Tom Miller, Cabinet Member for Community Safety, thanked Councillor Hylton for her presentation and welcomed in particular recommendations 1 and 4. It was agreed to share the report with key strategic partners across the Borough and to submit the report to a future meeting of the Safer Brent Partnership for discussion.

RESOLVED:

      i.        That the report and five recommendations contained therein, of the Overview and Scrutiny Task Group on Contextual Safeguarding, be noted.