Leisure, Wellbeing and Health Committee - 22 March 2017

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Wednesday 22 March 2017 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Leisure, Wellbeing and Health Committee:-

Councillors:-        Chris Lloyd (Lead Member for Leisure, Community and Wellbeing)        Alison Scarth (Lead Member for Health)

Diana Barber

Martin Brooks      Stephen King

Joy Mann

Alex Hayward      David Sansom

Heather Kenison      Alison Wall

Chris Whately-Smith

Steven Halls, Chief Executive
14 March 2017

Lead Member Responsibilities:

Health - Herts County Council health Strategy; Health and social care provision and access; Air pollution; Cemeteries and crematorium; Food inspection and disease control; Health and safety (for Health and Safety Executive and Council staff/contractors; Licensing activities covered by the Licensing Acts; Licensing and regulatory activities outside the Licensing Acts; Noise pollution.

Leisure, Community and Wellbeing – Arts development and grants; Charging; Grant aid, including the voluntary sector; Outdoor (woodlands, open spaces/grounds maintenance, play areas); Play development, schemes and rangers; Sport (pools, gyms, pitches, golf courses) and sports development; Public Health Strategy, Services for young and old people.

The Leisure, Wellbeing and Health Committee welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on agenda items.   Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that, in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Leisure, Wellbeing and Health Committee. Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.

In accordance with the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 any matters considered under Part I business only of the meeting may be filmed, recorded, photographed, broadcast or reported via social media by any person.

Recording and reporting the Council’s meetings is subject to the law and it is the responsibility of those doing the recording and reporting to ensure compliance. This will include the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act and the laws of libel and defamation.

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2. MINUTES

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meetings held on 30 November 2016 and 18 January 2017 (copy enclosed for members of the Committee).

3. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with the special circumstances that justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

4. DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

To receive any declarations of interest.

5. SERVICE PRESENTATIONS –ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESIDENTIAL (NOISE POLLUTION) AND REGULATORY SERVICES

LEISURE, COMMUNITY AND WELLBEING

6. LEISURE, COMMUNITY AND CAPITAL GRANTS APPLICATIONS

The Committee is asked to consider Leisure & Community Grants for Herts MIND Network, Home-start Watford & Three Rivers, the Pre-school Learning Alliance, Resolving Chaos, Rickmansworth Waterways Trust and Watford & District MENCAP.

The Committee is also asked to consider Capital Grants for Fences Club London, Hertfordshire Boat Rescue, the Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Lawrence (Abbots) and Rickmansworth Waterways Trust.

7. BUDGET MONITORING – PERIOD 10 (JANUARY)

Budget monitoring report is a key tool in scrutinising the Council’s financial performance. It is designed to provide an overview to all relevant stakeholders. It is essential that the council monitors its budgets throughout the year to ensure that it is meeting its strategic objectives and that corrective action is taken where necessary.

This report seeks approval to a change in the Committee’s 2016 - 2020 medium-term financial plan.

8.        SERVICE PLANNING 2017-2020

This report enables the Committee to comment on the Community Partnerships Service Plan and the Community Services (Leisure and Landscape) Service Plan, for the three years commencing on 1 April 2017.

HEALTH

9. MENTAL HEALTH OVERVIEW

The Committee will receive an overview of the work carried out by the Council on Mental Health.

The Committee to note the change in appointment of the Mental Health Member Champion.

10. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY STRATEGY TARGETS

This report reviews the performance indicators for the Physical Activity Strategy agreed on 3 June 2015 and recommends new indicators and targets for the next three years.

11. SERVICE PLANNING 2017-2020

This report enables the Committee to comment on the Community Partnerships Service Plan, the Community Services (Environmental Protection) Service Plan and the Regulatory Services Service Plan, for the three years commencing on 1 April 2017.

WORK PROGRAMME

12. WORK PROGRAMME

To review and make necessary changes to the Committee’s work programme.

13. OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.

14. EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If the Committee wishes to consider the remaining item in private, it will be appropriate for a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under paragraphs (1 -7) of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

(Note: If other confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items.)

1. OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.