Councillor Graeme Henderson

Agenda

The meeting began with a discussion of the latest crime data for the borough and included a presentation about the Metropolitan Police Service's use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR). This was followed by an update on the various initiatives the council is undertaking in partnership with the police and other stakeholders to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour in Balham. The meeting finished with a question and answer session with the police and council officers. No decisions were made during the meeting.

Agenda

The meeting noted the independent review into the Putney Constituency general election count, and accepted all of the recommendations that were made in it. It also noted the progress of the Democracy Review and that a task and finish group would be established to develop proposals based on the recommendations made by the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny.

Agenda and decisions

The Board agreed the recommendations in each of the reports on the agenda. These included holding the Council and health partners to account for the implementation of the new Autism Spectrum Disorder Emerging Needs Pathway, to sign off the Better Care Fund Plan end-of-year review, to note the activities delivered as part of the Health and Care plan, and to note the findings of the Homelessness Health Needs Assessment. It also agreed with the Director of Public Health's proposals for coordinating the delivery of the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and to note that the interactive, semi-automated Joint Strategic Needs Assessment products were now live. Finally, it approved the revised Terms of Reference and noted the work programme.

Agenda

The Executive of Wandsworth Council made a series of decisions about their leisure services, parks, and waste enforcement contracts, agreed a response to a petition about antisocial behaviour, approved a new Community Trigger protocol, and made decisions about grant funding applications.

Agenda

The Council meeting began with tributes to recently deceased former Councillors Neville Daniels, Shawn Creighton, Lois Lee, and tributes were also read out on behalf of Councillor Ravi Govindia who could not be present. Councillor Peter Graham proposed an adjournment to highlight the Alton Renewal Plan, which the Council voted for. The Conservative group proposed a motion of no confidence in the Labour administration, arguing that it was incompetent, secretive, and unresponsive to residents’ concerns, particularly regarding waste collection and alleged changes to the constitution to avoid scrutiny. This motion was defeated. Councillor Cassidy proposed a second adjournment, this time to highlight the impact of the closure of Hammersmith Bridge. This motion was defeated too. The Council voted to approve changes to the constitution, and to approve the Housing and Annual Resources report. Finally, a Labour group motion stating that the Council will work with the national government to deliver on shared policy objectives was passed.