(time limit 30 minutes)
Motion 1
Councillor Williamson to MOVE and Councillor Gloster to SECOND:
Council notes that nine local authorities are currently working through partnership agreements with the NHS Blood and Transplant Service to increase the number of blood donors and / or registered organ donors among their staff and residents.
These agreements have included local authorities making a commitment to:
- Promoting blood and organ donation through digital communication as well as hosting stalls at public events and publishing features in Council produced magazines
- Recruiting staff volunteers to act as 'Donation Champions' to help spread the message of donation across the borough. The volunteers, who received special training, attend events and seek networking opportunities, promoting donation to target hard-to-reach groups
- Providing venues free of charge to the service to take blood donations and free parking to donors whenever possible
This Council recognises the value of becoming a partner to the NHS Blood and Transplant Service in order to increase the number of staff and local residents signed up to be blood and organ donors.
Council therefore resolves to ask the Director of Public Health and the relevant Cabinet Member(s) to:
- Work to secure such an agreement with the NHS Blood and Transplant Service
- Ensure that the recruitment of ‘Donation Champions’ through the Council’s Employee Supported Volunteering programme form part of the agreement
- Bring back a further report to Council on this matter reporting progress
Motion 2
Councillor Sykes to MOVE and Councillor Blyth to SECOND:
Council notes that:
· Every 15 minutes, someone in the UK starts to lose their sight.
· According to data from the Royal National Institute for the Blind (the RNIB) there are approximately 6,000 people in Oldham living with some degree of sight loss, and this figure is expected to rise to nearly 9,000 by 2030.
· Obstacles in the public realm such as:
Ø Inaccessible crossings;
Ø Vehicles parking on pavements;
Ø Advertising boards (A-boards);
Ø Street and cafe furniture;
Ø Wheeled bins and refuse bags; and
Ø Overgrown shrubs and trees, and overhanging branches
impede access and mobility, and represent hazards, for the two million people in the UK who suffer from sight loss.
· In a Royal National Institute for the Blindsurvey conducted in 2014 nearly every respondent with sight loss reported that they had collided with an obstacle in the street within the previous three months, and a third of people reported injury as a result.
Council therefore welcomes the 'Who Put That There!' campaign by the Royal National Institute for the Blind and endorses the call to local authorities to engage with blind and partially sighted people in their area to develop a Street Charter to remove obstacles and hazards from the public realm.
Council therefore resolves to ask the Overview and Scrutiny Board to convene a workshop with representatives from the Royal National Institute for the Blind, blind and partially sighted people living in this borough, and their local representative bodies, and highways and planning officers to draw up a Street Charter for this borough.
Motion 3
Councillor Blyth to MOVE and Councillor Harkness to SECOND:
Council notes:
· The launch last month of the Equality for Mental Health Campaign by former Care Minister Norman Lamb MP, Alastair Campbell and Andrew Mitchell MP
· That this campaign has been endorsed by parliamentarians of all parties, by health and other professionals, religious leaders, and celebrities
· That the campaign seeks to persuade Government to improve the treatment available to patients with mental ill health by:
- Ensuring parity in treatment for patients with mental health conditions to those with physical health conditions
- Increasing investment in mental health services
- Providing such patients with mental health conditions with the same rights to timely access to treatment as those with physical health problems
- Reducing the stigma attached to mental ill-health
This Council resolves to:
· Support the campaign by asking the Chief Executive to add the name of the Council to the list of signatories
· Ask the Chief Executive to write to our three local Members of Parliament asking them to support this campaign
Minutes:
Motion 1
Councillor Williamson MOVED and Councillor Gloster SECONDED the following motion:
Council notes that nine local authorities are currently working through partnership agreements with the NHS Blood and Transplant Service to increase the number of blood donors and / or registered organ donors among their staff and residents.
These agreements have included local authorities making a commitment to:
- Promoting blood and organ donation through digital communication as well as hosting stalls at public events and publishing features in Council produced magazines
- Recruiting staff volunteers to act as 'Donation Champions' to help spread the message of donation across the borough. The volunteers, who received special training, attend events and seek networking opportunities, promoting donation to target hard-to-reach groups
- Providing venues free of charge to the service to take blood donations and free parking to donors whenever possible
This Council recognises the value of becoming a partner to the NHS Blood and Transplant Service in order to increase the number of staff and local residents signed up to be blood and organ donors.
Council therefore resolves to ask the Director of Public Health and the relevant Cabinet Member(s) to:
- Work to secure such an agreement with the NHS Blood and Transplant Service
- Ensure that the recruitment of ‘Donation Champions’ through the Council’s Employee Supported Volunteering programme form part of the agreement
- Bring back a further report to Council on this matter reporting progress
AMENDMENT
Councillor Wrigglesworth MOVED and Councillor Fielding SECONDED the following AMENDMENT:
“Delete:
Council therefore resolves to ask the Director of Public Health and relevant Cabinet Members to: Work to secure such an agreement with the NHS Blood and transplant Services
Ensure that the recruitment of “Donation Champion” through the Council’s Employee Supported Volunteering Programme form part of the agreement
Bring back a further report to Council on this matter reporting progress.
Insert: Council therefore resolves to refer the issue to the Overview and Scrutiny Board for consideration.
Motion 1 to then read:
Council notes that nine local authorities are currently working through partnership agreements with the NHS Blood and transplant Services to increase the number of blood donors and /or registered organ donors among their staff and residents.
These agreements have included local authorities making a commitment to:
- Promoting blood and organ donation through digital communication as well as hosting stalls at public events and publishing features in Council produced magazines.
- Recruiting staff volunteers to act as “Donation Champions” to help spread the message of donation across the borough. The volunteers who received special training, attend events and seek networking opportunities, promoting donation to target hard-to-reach groups.
- Providing venues free of charge to the services to take blood donations and free parking to donors whenever possible.
This Council recognises the value of becoming a partner to the NHS Blood and Transplant Services in order to increase the number of staff and local residents signed up to be blood and organ donors.
Council therefore resolves to refer the issue to the Overview and Scrutiny Board for consideration.”
Councillor Williamson exercised her right of reply.
A vote was then taken on the AMENDMENT.
On being put the VOTE FORTY-FOUR VOTES were cast in FAVOUR of the AMENDMENT with 12 VOTES cast AGAINST and NO ABSTENSIONS. The AMENDMENT was therefore CARRIED.
A vote was then taken on the SUBSTANTIVE MOTION.
On being put the vote the SUBSTANTIVE MOTION was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Motion 2
Councillor Sykes MOVED and Councillor Blyth SECONDED the following motion:
“Council notes that:
· Every 15 minutes, someone in the UK starts to lose their sight.
· According to data from the Royal National Institute for the Blind (the RNIB) there are approximately 6,000 people in Oldham living with some degree of sight loss, and this figure is expected to rise to nearly 9,000 by 2030.
· Obstacles in the public realm such as:
Ø Inaccessible crossings;
Ø Vehicles parking on pavements;
Ø Advertising boards (A-boards);
Ø Street and cafe furniture;
Ø Wheeled bins and refuse bags; and
Ø Overgrown shrubs and trees, and overhanging branches
impede access and mobility, and represent hazards, for the two million people in the UK who suffer from sight loss.
· In a Royal National Institute for the Blind survey conducted in 2014 nearly every respondent with sight loss reported that they had collided with an obstacle in the street within the previous three months, and a third of people reported injury as a result.
Council therefore welcomes the 'Who Put That There!' campaign by the Royal National Institute for the Blind and endorses the call to local authorities to engage with blind and partially sighted people in their area to develop a Street Charter to remove obstacles and hazards from the public realm.
Council therefore resolves to ask the Overview and Scrutiny Board to convene a workshop with representatives from the Royal National Institute for the Blind, blind and partially sighted people living in this borough, and their local representative bodies, and highways and planning officers to draw up a Street Charter for this borough.”
Councillor Wrigglesworth MOVED and Councillor Chadderton SECONDED the following AMENDMENT:
“Delete: …to convene a workshop with representatives from the Royal National institute for the blind, blind and partially sighted people living in this borough and their local representative bodies and highways and planning officers to draw up a Street Charter for this borough.
Insert: … to consider the proposal.
Motion to then read:
Council notes that
· Every 15 minutes someone in the UK starts to lose their sight.
· According to data from the Royal National institute for the Blind (RNIB) there are approximately 6,000 people in Oldham living with some degree of sight loss and this figure is expected to rise to nearly 9,000 by 2030.
· Obstacles in the public realm such as:
Inaccessible crossings
Vehicles parking on pavements
Advertising boards (A –boards)
Street and café furniture
Wheeled bins and refuge bags and
Overgrown shrubs and trees , and overhanging branches
Impede access and mobility and, represent hazards, for the two million people in the UK who suffer from sight loss.
· In a Royal National Institute for the Blind survey conducted in 2014 nearly every respondent with sight loss reported that they had collided with an obstacle in the street within the previous three months, and a third of people reported injury as a result.
Council therefore welcomes the “Who Put That There” campaign by the Royal National Institute for the Blind and endorses the call to local authorities to engage with blind and partially sighted people in the area to develop a Street Charter to remove obstacles and hazards from the public realm.
Council therefore resolves to ask the Overview and Scrutiny Board to consider the proposal. “
A vote was then taken on the AMENDMENT.
On being put the VOTE FORTY-FOUR VOTES were cast in FAVOUR of the AMENDMENT with 12 VOTES cast AGAINST and NO ABSTENSIONS. The AMENDMENT was therefore CARRIED.
A vote was then taken on the SUBSTANTIVE MOTION.
On being put the vote the SUBSTANTIVE MOTION was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Motion 3
Councillor Blyth MOVED and Councillor Harkness SECONDED the following motion:
“Council notes:
· The launch last month of the Equality for Mental Health Campaign by former Care Minister Norman Lamb MP, Alastair Campbell and Andrew Mitchell MP
· That this campaign has been endorsed by parliamentarians of all parties, by health and other professionals, religious leaders, and celebrities
· That the campaign seeks to persuade Government to improve the treatment available to patients with mental ill health by:
- Ensuring parity in treatment for patients with mental health conditions to those with physical health conditions
- Increasing investment in mental health services
- Providing such patients with mental health conditions with the same rights to timely access to treatment as those with physical health problems
- Reducing the stigma attached to mental ill-health
This Council resolves to:
· Support the campaign by asking the Chief Executive to add the name of the Council to the list of signatories
· Ask the Chief Executive to write to our three local Members of Parliament asking them to support this campaign”
A vote was then taken on the MOTION.
On being put the vote the MOTION was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.