(time limit 30 minutes)
Motion 1
Councillor Harkness to MOVE and Councillor Gloster to SECOND:
Council notes that:
Council is concerned that, under the current proposals resulting from this review:
· Some patients will be obliged to access services, and surgery outside the North West, at specialist centres in Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield.
· In the event of an emergency attendance at a local hospital, patients will be “stabilised and managed by doctors until fit for transfer to a specialist centre”.
· The capacity of the Manchester Royal Infirmary to carry out specialist procedures has over past months been reduced as key medical staff have left the hospital as they had no guarantee their services would be required following the review.
· The proposed merger of the South and Central Trafford NHS Trusts has created further uncertainty of employment for specialist staff in our region as the two hospitals providing heart services - Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe - will be brought under one trust.
Council believes that:
Council therefore resolves to ask the Chief Executive to make representations on this matter to:
Requesting they maintain specialist provision in our region.
And also to the three local Members of Parliament seeking their support for the Council’s position.
Motion 2
Councillor Williamson to MOVE and Councillor Murphy to SECOND:
This Council notes:
· The national scandal of homelessness, with official figures showing over 4,000 people sleeping rough on any one night, in England last year and over 250,000 people in some form of homelessness.
· That figures for sleeping rough have increased by nearly 50% in the last two years.
· That Greater Manchester has a particular homelessness problem, with Manchester having the fourth highest rates of rough sleeping in the country.
· The charities, Crisis, Centrepoint, Homeless Link, Shelter and St Mungo’s have launched the End Rough Sleeping Campaign to call upon politicians of all parties to make a commitment to end rough sleeping and homelessness.
Working with our social housing and voluntary sector partners, Council reaffirms its commitment to ending rough sleeping and homelessness.
Council resolves to:
· Adopt as policy the aspirations outlined in the End Rough Sleeping Campaign that in this borough:
- no one is sleeping rough
- no one is living in shelters, hostels or other emergency accommodation without a plan to move into suitable and settled housing within an agreed appropriate timescale
- no one is homeless as a result of leaving the care system, prison or other state institution
- everyone at immediate risk of homelessness gets the help they need to prevents it happening.
· Ask the Chief Executive to write to the charities involved with the End Rough Sleeping Campaign to give the campaign this Council’s support and to ask the campaign to register the Council as a supporter.
· Ask the Chief Executive to write to our three Members of Parliament, urging them to support action at a Government level, including:
- Adequately funding local government and local health services enable them to properly undertake their duties to tackle homelessness and causes of homelessness
- Ensuring that the benefits system is contributing to stopping homelessness, not causing it
- Addressing issues in housing provision, including providing for longer and more stable private rental periods
· Support measures to tackle homelessness at a Greater Manchester level, including:
- Supporting the Homelessness Action Network created by the Greater Manchester Mayor
- Working together as ten boroughs, and using our devolved powers to collectively bring an end to homelessness as an urgent priority.
- Ensuring that a revised Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, and the Oldham Local Plan, has appropriate and affordable housing as a core priority.
· Ensure that Oldham Council, and our social housing and voluntary sector partners, are doing everything we can to contribute to ending homelessness by asking the Leader to bring a report to Council outlining how our local services are working to end homelessness in the Borough.
Motion 3
Councillor Turner to MOVE and Councillor McCann to SECOND:
Council notes:
The Project intends to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage by commemorating suffrage pioneers to inspire a new generation of activists.
The Project will identify and celebrate the lives of 100 previously hidden women and supportive men who worked tirelessly in suffrage campaigns leading up to the Representation of the People Act 1918, and who used the extended rights to citizenship in a positive way by serving as elected councillors, magistrates, on school and public health boards, or by otherwise taking a lead in their local community.
· with pride that at least two Oldham women – Annie Kenney and Lydia Becker - played leading roles in the struggle for women’s suffrage and therefore recognises the importance of this Council supporting this Project.
· that the Chair of the Local Government Association, Lord Gary Porter, has asked all Leaders and Chief Executives in local authorities to identify an elected member champion to lead on this work.
Council resolves to:
· Appoint an elected member champion as per Lord Porter’s request.
· Ask that champion to bring a report back to a future meeting of Council in 2017 identifying how this local authority can best support the aims of this Project.
Minutes:
Motion 1
Councillor Harkness MOVED and Councillor Gloster SECONDED the following motion:
“Council notes that:
· Heart disease remains one of the biggest killers of adults in this borough and that it debilitates many more.
· The Oldham Locality Plan for Health & Social Care Transformation reports that “Our adult population is less physically active, smokes more, and carries more excess weight than the England average and we have higher than average alcohol-related admissions to hospital. These unhealthy behaviours mean we have significantly higher numbers of people with recorded diabetes, and deaths from smoking-related diseases, cardiovascular disease and cancer are significantly higher than the England average.”
· There has recently been a review of congenital heart disease treatment services in this region.
Council is concerned that, under the current proposals resulting from this review:
· Some patients will be obliged to access services, and surgery outside the North West, at specialist centres in Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield.
· In the event of an emergency attendance at a local hospital, patients will be “stabilised and managed by doctors until fit for transfer to a specialist centre”.
· The capacity of the Manchester Royal Infirmary to carry out specialist procedures has over past months been reduced as key medical staff have left the hospital as they had no guarantee their services would be required following the review.
· The proposed merger of the South and Central Trafford NHS Trusts has created further uncertainty of employment for specialist staff in our region as the two hospitals providing heart services - Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe - will be brought under one trust.
Council believes that:
· It is unreasonable to expect patients with such conditions, and their carers and families, to make significant journeys to centres outside of Greater Manchester for the more specialist procedures or surgery.
· It is unacceptable that in a National Health Service patients in the North West are subject to a ‘postcode lottery’ as to where they are sent for treatment and cannot access their own specialist centre in their own region.
Council therefore resolves to ask the Chief Executive to make representations on this matter to:
· The Secretary of State for Health
· The Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages the Manchester Heart Centre
· The Greater Manchester Mayor
Requesting they maintain specialist provision in our region.
And also to the three local Members of Parliament seeking their support for the Council’s position.
AMENDMENT
Councillor Moores MOVED and Councillor Harrison SECONDED the following AMENDMENT:
“After ‘Council notes that’, delete bullets 1 and 2 and replace with:
· Adult Congenital Heart Disease [ACHD] patients, their families and carers living in Oldham have raised genuine concerns regarding the proposed changes to ACHD treatment in Greater Manchester.
· That the new national standards are intended ensure that patients receive a high quality, safe and timely service.
After ‘Council is concerned that’, delete ‘under the current proposals resulting from this review’, delete bullets 3 - 4 and insert a bullet point:
· There is uncertainty regarding the location of future services that will be provided to Oldham ACHD patients their families and carers.
After ‘Council believes that’, Remove ‘Greater Manchester’ from the sentences ‘It is unreasonable to expect patients with such conditions and their carers and families, to make significant journeys outside of the Greater Manchester for the more specialist procedures or surgery.’ And insert ‘North West’. The sentence will now read ‘It is unreasonable to expect patients with such conditions and their carers and families, to make significant journeys outside of the North West for the more specialist procedures or surgery.’
In the same section, delete bullet 2 insert:
Amended motion to read as follows:
This Council notes that:
· Adult Congenital Heart Disease [ACHD] patients, their families and carers living in Oldham have raised genuine concerns regarding the proposed changes to ACHD treatment in Greater Manchester.
· There has recently been a review of congenital heart disease treatment services in this region.
· That the new national standards are intended ensure that patients receive a high quality, safe and timely service.
Council is concerned that:
Council believes that:
Council therefore resolves to ask the Chief Executive to make representation on this matter to:
Asking them to seek assurance that the needs of patients and families will be prioritised in making the changes to services.”
Councillor Harkness spoke against the amendment.
Councillor Hudson spoke against the amendment.
Councillor Gloster spoke against the amendment.
Councillor Chauhan spoke in support of the amendment.
Councillor Harkness exercised his right of reply.
Councillor Moores exercised his right of reply.
A vote was then taken on the AMENDMENT.
On being put the VOTE, 38 votes were cast in FAVOUR of the AMENDMENT and 11 votes were cast AGAINST with 0 ABSTENTIONS. 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.
RESOLVED that representations be made by the Chief Executive on this matter to:
· The Secretary of State for Health
· The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
· The Greater Manchester Mayor
· Jim McMahon MP, Angela Rayner MP and Debbie Abrahams MP
And ask for assurances to be sought that the needs of patients and families would be prioritised in making changes to services.
Motion 2
The Mayor informed the meeting that the time limit for this item had expired. Councillor Williamson as Mover of the Motion and Councillor Murphy as Seconder of the Motion requested the Motion be put to the vote.
“This Council notes:
· The national scandal of homelessness, with official figures showing over 4,000 people sleeping rough on any one night, in England last year and over 250,000 people in some form of homelessness.
· That figures for sleeping rough have increased by nearly 50% in the last two years.
· That Greater Manchester has a particular homelessness problem, with Manchester having the fourth highest rates of rough sleeping in the country.
· The charities, Crisis, Centrepoint, Homeless Link, Shelter and St Mungo’s have launched the End Rough Sleeping Campaign to call upon politicians of all parties to make a commitment to end rough sleeping and homelessness.
Working with our social housing and voluntary sector partners, Council reaffirms its commitment to ending rough sleeping and homelessness.
Council resolves to:
· Adopt as policy the aspirations outlined in the End Rough Sleeping Campaign that in this borough:
- no one is sleeping rough
- no one is living in shelters, hostels or other emergency accommodation without a plan to move into suitable and settled housing within an agreed appropriate timescale
- no one is homeless as a result of leaving the care system, prison or other state institution
- everyone at immediate risk of homelessness gets the help they need to prevents it happening.
· Ask the Chief Executive to write to the charities involved with the End Rough Sleeping Campaign to give the campaign this Council’s support and to ask the campaign to register the Council as a supporter.
· Ask the Chief Executive to write to our three Members of Parliament, urging them to support action at a Government level, including:
- Adequately funding local government and local health services enable them to properly undertake their duties to tackle homelessness and causes of homelessness
- Ensuring that the benefits system is contributing to stopping homelessness, not causing it
- Addressing issues in housing provision, including providing for longer and more stable private rental periods
· Support measures to tackle homelessness at a Greater Manchester level, including:
- Supporting the Homelessness Action Network created by the Greater Manchester Mayor
- Working together as ten boroughs, and using our devolved powers to collectively bring an end to homelessness as an urgent priority.
- Ensuring that a revised Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, and the Oldham Local Plan, has appropriate and affordable housing as a core priority.
· Ensure that Oldham Council, and our social housing and voluntary sector partners, are doing everything we can to contribute to ending homelessness by asking the Leader to bring a report to Council outlining how our local services are working to end homelessness in the Borough.”
Councillor Williamson did not exercise her right of reply.
A vote was then taken on the MOTION.
On being put the VOTE, the MOTION was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
RESOLVED that:
1. The aspirations as outlined in the End Rough Sleeping Campaign be adopted in this borough:
- no one is sleeping rough;
- no one is living in shelters, hostels or other emergency accommodation without a plan to move into suitable and settled housing within an agreed appropriate timescale
- no one is homeless as a result of leaving the care system, prison or other state institution
- everyone at immediate risk of homelessness gets the help they need to prevent it happening.
2. The Chief Executive be asked to write to the charities involved with the End Rough Sleeping Campaign to give the campaign this Council’s support and ask the campaign to register the Council as a supporter.
3. The Chief Executive be asked to write to the three Members of Parliament, urging them to support action at a Government level which included:
- adequately funding local government and local health services to enable them to properly undertake their duties to tackle homelessness and causes of homelessness
- ensuring that the benefits system was contributing to stopping homelessness, not causing it
- addressing issues in housing provision, including providing for longer and more stable private rental periods
4. Measures to tackle homelessness at a Greater Manchester level be supported including:
- supporting the Homelessness Action Network created by the Greater Manchester Mayor
- working together as ten boroughs, and using our devolved power to collectively bring an end to homelessness as an urgent priority.
- ensuring that a revised Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, and the Oldham Local Plan, has appropriate and affordable housing as a core priority.
5. Ensure that Oldham Council, social housing and voluntary sector partners were doing everything they could to contribute to ending homelessness and the Leader be asked to bring a report to Council which outlined how our local services were working to end homelessness in the Borough.
Motion 3
The Mayor informed the meeting that the time limit for this item had expired. Councillor Turner as Mover of the Motion and Councillor McCann as Seconder of the Motion requested the Motion be put to the vote.
“Council notes:
· the launch on International Women’s Day (8 March 2017) of the Suffrage to Citizenship Project by the Women’s Local Government Society, a voluntary, cross-party organisation seeking to recruit more women into local government.
The Project intends to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage by commemorating suffrage pioneers to inspire a new generation of activists.
The Project will identify and celebrate the lives of 100 previously hidden women and supportive men who worked tirelessly in suffrage campaigns leading up to the Representation of the People Act 1918, and who used the extended rights to citizenship in a positive way by serving as elected councillors, magistrates, on school and public health boards, or by otherwise taking a lead in their local community.
· with pride that at least two Oldham women – Annie Kenney and Lydia Becker - played leading roles in the struggle for women’s suffrage and therefore recognises the importance of this Council supporting this Project.
· that the Chair of the Local Government Association, Lord Gary Porter, has asked all Leaders and Chief Executives in local authorities to identify an elected member champion to lead on this work.
Council resolves to:
· Appoint an elected member champion as per Lord Porter’s request.
Ask that champion to bring a report back to a future meeting of Council in 2017 identifying how this local authority can best support the aims of this Project.”
Councillor Turner did not exercise her right of reply.
A vote was then taken on the MOTION.
On being put the VOTE, 48 votes were cast in FAVOUR of the MOTION and 0 votes were cast AGAINST with 1 ABSTENTION. The MOTION was therefore CARRIED.
RESOLVED that:
1. An elected member champion be appointed as per Lord Porter’s request.
2. The elected member champion be asked to bring a report back to a future meeting of Council in 2017 which identified how this local authority could best support the aims of this Project.