(time limit 30 minutes)
Motion 1
Councillor Jabbar to MOVE and Councillor Harrison to SECOND:
This Council considers its duty towards Children’s Social Care and Early Help to be one of its most important statutory duties. It is vitally important that the Council provides as comprehensive a service as possible to ensure that children have the best start in life. Therefore, the Council notes with grave concern that across England:
· Approximately 350 Sure Start centres have closed since 2010.
· Child poverty is now at its highest level since 2010, with 100,000 children nationally in relative poverty and 4 million children considered to be in poor households.
· The analysis by the Local Government Association that suggests that: 75% of councils exceed their children’s social care budget to a total of £605 million, that councils are dealing with an increase in demand with child protection inquiries up by 140% in the last 10 years and that Children’s services face a £2bn shortfall by 2020.
· A survey conducted by Action for Children outlines that 53% of Conservative Councillors are concerned that recent funding cuts make it more difficult for local councils to deliver legally required responsibilities for children and young people, with three quarters saying that in the long term children services is a major cause for concern.
Council further notes that:
· The Council has invested an additional £4m into Children’s Services in this financial year. This is to cover the cost of the vast increase in demand. As this trend is expected to continue, the budget reduction requirement for 2018/19, has been increased by £4m to reflect this
· Despite this in year investment, our Month 3 Financial Monitoring report considered by Cabinet on 23 September showed a projected overspend of £1.066m on Children’s Social Care. This is clearly challenging in the context of cuts to the Council’s budget totalling £202m over the period 2009/10 to 2017/18 and the use of £6.5m of reserves to balance the 2017/18 revenue budget. As a result of the increased funding requirement in addition to Government funding cuts, the Council currently faces a budget reduction target of £24.8m for 2018/19 with further cuts required in future years.
Therefore, Council resolves to:
· Make urgent representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer outlining the Council’s continuing struggle to meet its statutory requirements with the funding available, and request the release of adequate funds so that the Council can properly safeguard its children’s services.
· Make representations to Robert Goodwill MP, the Minister of State for Children and Families, outlining the Council’s continuing struggle to meet its statutory requirements with the funding available, requesting that the Minister lobbies the Chancellor of the Exchequer for adequate funds so that the Council can properly safeguard its children’s services.
· To write to the Local Government Association expressing the Council’s support for the organisation’s lobbying for adequate funding for Children’s Services.
· To write to the borough’s three MPs asking that they continue to lobby government for adequate funding for the Council’s children’s services.
Motion 2
Councillor Moores to MOVE and Councillor Ball to SECOND:
This Council
i. Recognises the importance of local action in coordinating and commissioning accessible and effective HIV testing to reach the undiagnosed and reduce late HIV diagnosis
ii. Commits to strengthening its own provision of HIV testing services through working with local providers of Sexual Health Services, NHS partners, HIV charities and patient groups
iii. Recognises that late HIV diagnosis is a Public Health Outcomes Indicator in the Public Health Outcomes Framework
iv. Recognises the volume and quality of public health and local government guidelines and performance indicators designed to support local authority implementation and monitoring of appropriate and effective testing guidelines
The council further notes,
i. That an estimated 101,200 people were living in the UK with HIV in 2015; 13% of people were undiagnosed and unaware of their condition. It is estimated that 984 people are currently living with undiagnosed HIV across Greater Manchester.
ii. HIV testing is integral to the treatment and management of HIV. With an early diagnosis and put on a clear treatment pathway and guaranteed access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), people living with HIV can expect to have a near-normal life expectancy and live healthy and active lives.
iii. Oldham’s HIV testing coverage has significantly declined.The testing coverage rate for men has increasedboth regionallyand nationally while Oldham’s rate decreased slightly by 3.7 percentage points. Over thesame period,there hasbeen a sharp decrease inthe testing coveragefor women in Oldham particularly since 2013while decreases regional or national level have been less severe. Testing coverage for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) was similarto national rates.
iv. Late diagnosis is the most important factor associated with HIV-related morbidity and mortality in the UK (BASHH 2008). There is an impact of late diagnosis on individual health, public health and health budgets. Late diagnosis increases the likelihood of the need for complex and expensive treatment and the risk of onward transmission to others. In 2015 39% of people were diagnosed with HIV at a late stage of infection (with a CD4 count <350 cells per mm3)
v. The lifetime treatment cost of living with HIV is estimated to be around £360,000. Late diagnosis increases further the cost of HIV treatment by 50%.
vi. Developing a Greater Manchester city-region approach to the eradication of HIV within a generation is an objective of the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan.
Recognising the weight of evidence in favour of expanding local HIV testing services, Oldham council resolves to:
· Work, with partners, towards attaining the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 targets;
90% of all people living with HIV will know their status
90% of all people living with HIV will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART)
90% of all people living with HIV on ART will have durable viral suppression.
· Support the Greater Manchester (GM) city region approach to eradicating HIV within a generation.
Council further resolves to:
· Ask the Director of Public Health to provide a report outlining what needs to be done locally in the commissioning and provision of services in order to support the 90-90-90 targets and GMs ambition to eradicate HIV within a generation.
· Work with sexual health services to address the decline in HIV testing rates for men and women in the borough.
· Adopt the GM model to increase HIV testing and associated interventions.
· Support the provider of our Specialist Sexual Health Service to successfully implement the NHS England funded Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV prevention programme. Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a way for people who do not have HIV, but who are at substantial risk of HIV infection to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV.
· Promote the National HIV Testing Week which starts on the 18th November 2017
Motion 3
Councillor Ali to MOVE and Councillor Jacques to SECOND:
This Council notes with great concern that Greater Manchester Police’s budget has been reduced by £180m since 2010, reducing nearly a quarter of its front-line officers and 1,000 support staff as government austerity budgets sought to reduce the cost of Britain’s public services.
With 6,200 officers, reduced from 8,000 a decade ago, GMP is so stretched that officers from specialist divisions are being drafted in to help with community policing. Officers are being directed away from the Serious Crime Unit, which usually deals with robbery, kidnapping, and drug dealers.
In Oldham, 4,839 more crimes were reported per annum in 2017 than in 2011, an increase of 27%. This reflects the regional picture, with crime up across Greater Manchester by 13% in the same period. Oldham performs worse in 11 of the 17 categories identified by official police and crime statistics which include huge rises in violence (131%), shoplifting (75%) and public order offences (244%).
The Government has not protected police budgets as promised. Home Office Figures in England and Wales between September 2010 and September 2016 record that the number of police officers fell by 18,991, or 13%. The problem is compounded by sickness absence rates. Nearly 2,500 officers - about 2% of the total workforce - were classified as being on long term sick leave, an 11.5% increase on 2015. Overall police budgets, excluding counter-terrorism grants, fell by 20% between 2010 and 2015 which is completely unsustainable.
This Council condemns these cuts in policing in the strongest possible terms threatening as they do the excellent policing we have in Oldham and putting at risk the safety and security of our local diverse community.
This Council resolves to:
- Instruct the Chief Executive to convey this Motion and the Council’s strong concerns about these matters to the Mayor of Greater Manchester and the Home Secretary.
- Instruct the Chief Executive to write to the Home Secretary asking her to increase Police numbers in order to safeguard our residents and communities.
Minutes:
Motion 1
Councillor Jabbar MOVED and Councillor Harrison SECONDED the following motion:
“The Council considers its duty towards Children’s Social Care and Early Help to be one of its most important statutory duties. It is vitally important that the Council provides as comprehensive a service as possible to ensure that children have the best start in life. Therefore, the Council notes with grave concern that across England:
· Approximately 350 Sure Start centres have closed since 2010.
· Child poverty is now at its highest level since 2010, with 100,000 children nationally in relative poverty and 4 million children considered to be in poor households.
· The analysis by the Local Government Association that suggests that: 75% of councils exceed their children’s social care budget to a total of £605 million, that councils are dealing with an increase in demand with child protection inquiries up by 140% in the last 10 years and that Children’s services face a £2bn shortfall by 2020.
· A survey conducted by Action for Children outlines that 53% of Conservative Councillors are concerned that recent funding cuts make it more difficult for local councils to deliver legally required responsibilities for children and young people, with three quarters saying that in the longer term children services is a major cause of concern.
Council further notes that:
· The Council has invested an additional £4m into Children’s Services in this financial year. This is to cover the cost of the vast increase in demand. As this trend is expected to continue, the budget reduction requirement for 2018/19 has been increased by £4m to reflect this.
· Despite this in year investment, our Month 3 Financial Monitoring report considered by Cabinet on 23 September showed a projected overspend of £1.066m on Children’s Social Care. This is clearly challenging in the context of cuts to the Council’s budget totally £202m over the period 2009/10 to 2017/18 and the use of £6.5m of reserves to balance the 2017/18 revenue budget. As a result of the increased funding requirement in addition to Government funding cuts, the Council currently faces a budget reduction target of £24.8m for 2018/19 with further cuts required in future years.
Therefore, this Council resolves to:
· Make urgent representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer outlining the Council’s continuing struggle to meet its statutory requirements with the funding available, and request the release of adequate funds so that the Council can properly safeguard its children’s services.
· Make representations to Robert Goodwill MP, the Minister of State for Children and Families, outlining the Council’s continuing struggle to meet its statutory requirements with the funding available, requesting that the Minister lobbies the Chancellor of the Exchequer for adequate funds so that the Council can properly safeguard its children’s services.
· To write to the Local Government Association expressing the Council’s support for the organisation’s lobbying for adequate funding for Children’s Services.
· To write to the Local Government Association expressing the Council’s support for the organisation’s lobbying for adequate funding for Children’s Services.
· To write to the borough’s three MPs asking that they continue to lobby government for adequate funding for the Council’s children’s services.
Councillor McCann spoke in support of the Motion.
Councillor Mushtaq spoke in support of the Motion.
Councillor Ali spoke in support of the Motion.
Councillor Sykes spoke in support of the Motion.
Councillor Jabbar exercised his right of reply.
On being put to the VOTE, the MOTION was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
RESOLVED that:
1. Urgent representations be made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer which outlined the Council’s continuing struggle to meet its statutory requirements with the funding available and request the release of adequate funds so that the Council could properly safeguard its children’s services.
2. Representations be made to Robert Goodwill MP, the Minister of State for Children and Families which outlined the Council’s continuing struggle to meet its statutory requirements with the funding available, requesting that the Minister lobbied the Chancellor of the Exchequer for adequate funds so that the Council could properly safeguard its children’s services.
3. The Local Government Association be written to expressing the Council’s support for the organisation’s lobbying for Children’s Services.
4. The borough’s three MPs be written to and be asked that they continue to lobby government for adequate funding for the Council’s children’s services.
Motion 2
Councillor Moores MOVED and Councillor Ball SECONDED the following motion:
“This Council
i. Recognises the importance of local action in coordinating and commissioning accessible and effective HIV testing to reach the undiagnosed and reduce late HIV diagnosis
ii. Commits to strengthening its own provision of HIV testing services through working with local providers of Sexual Health Services, NHS partners, HIV charities and patient groups
iii. Recognises that late HIV diagnosis is a Public Health Outcomes Indicator in the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
iv. Recognises the volume and quality of public health and local government guidelines and performance indicators designed to support local authority implementation and monitoring of appropriate and effective testing guidelines.
The Council further notes:
i. That an estimated 101,200 were living in the UK with HIV in 2015; 13% of people were undiagnosed and unaware of their condition. It is estimated that 984 people are currently living with undiagnosed HIV across Greater Manchester.
ii. HIV testing is integral to the treatment and management of HIV. With an early diagnosis and put on a clear treatment pathway and guaranteed access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), people living with HIV can expect to have a near-normal life expectancy and live healthy and active lives.
iii. Oldham’s HIV testing coverage has significantly declined. The testing coverage rate for men has increased both regionally and nationally while Oldham’s rate decreased slightly by 3.7 percentage points. Over the same period, has been a sharp decrease in the testing coverage for women in Oldham particularly since 2013 while decreases regional and national level have been less severe. Testing coverage for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) was similar to national rates.
iv. Late diagnosis is the most important factor associated with HIV-related morbidity and mortality in the UK (BASHH 2008). There is an impact of late diagnosis on individual health, public health and health budgets. Late diagnosis increases the likelihood of the need for complex and expensive treatment and the risk of onward transmission to others. In 2015, 39% of people were diagnosed with HIV at a late stage of infection (with a CD4 count <350 cells per mm3).
v. The lifetime treatment cost of living with HIV is estimated to be around £360,000. Late diagnosis increases further the cost of HIV treatment by 50%.
vi. Developing a Greater Manchester city-region approach to the eradication of HIV within a generation is an objective of the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan.
Recognising the weight of evidence in favour of expanding local HIV testing services, Oldham Council resolves to:
· Work, with partners, towards attaining the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 targets;
90% of all people living with HIV will know their status
90% of all people living with HIV will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART)
90% of all people living with HIV on ART will have durable viral suppression.
· Support the Greater Manchester (GM) city region approach to eradicating HIV within a generation.
Council further resolves to:
· Ask the Director of Public Health to provide a report outlining what needs to be done locally in the commissioning and provision of services in order to support the 90-90-90 targets and GMs ambition to eradicate HIV within a generation.
· Work with sexual health services to address the decline of HIV testing rates for men and women in the borough.
· Adopt the GM Model to increase HIV testing and associated interventions.
· Support the provider of our Specialist Sexual Health Service to successfully implement the NHS England funded Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV prevention programme. Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, is a way for people who do have HIV, but who are at substantial risk of HIV infection to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV.
· Promote the National HIV Testing Week which starts on the 18th November 2017.”
Amendment
Councillor Gloster MOVED and Councillor Murphy SECONDED the following AMENDMENT:
“On Page One in the paragraph starting ‘The Council further notes:
Insert at the end of Point IV: ‘Fortunately Oldham does not have a high rate of diagnosed HIV with 1.35 persons diagnosed with the condition in every 1,000 of the population; however worryingly there is a high incidence of late diagnosis in 42.9% of cases.’
On Page Two in the paragraph starting ‘Recognising’ after the first bullet point insert two new bullet points:
· ‘Look to introduce HIV testing services in primary care settings in this Borough including GP surgeries and health clinics, as per the recommendations made in national HIV guidance, guidance issued by NICE, and by the sexual health charity The Terrance Higgins Trust.
· Conduct a review of the current services available in this Borough in consultation with people living with HIV, their partners and carers, and relevant bodies such as local LGBT+ groups, The Terrance Higgins Trust, the George House Trust and Healthwatch Oldham, to determine how else they may be improved or made more accessible.’
Insert at the every end of the motion after 2017’,and promote both the It Starts with Me campaign and the National HIV Testing Week each year.’
Amended motion to read as follows:
‘This Council
v. Recognises the importance of local action in coordinating and commissioning accessible and effective HIV testing to reach the undiagnosed and reduce late HIV diagnosis
vi. Commits to strengthening its own provision of HIV testing services through working with local providers of Sexual Health Services, NHS partners, HIV charities and patient groups
vii. Recognises that late HIV diagnosis is a Public Health Outcomes Indicator in the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
viii. Recognises the volume and quality of public health and local government guidelines and performance indicators designed to support local authority implementation and monitoring of appropriate and effective testing guidelines.
The Council further notes:
vii. That an estimated 101,200 were living in the UK with HIV in 2015; 13% of people were undiagnosed and unaware of their condition. It is estimated that 984 people are currently living with undiagnosed HIV across Greater Manchester.
viii. HIV testing is integral to the treatment and management of HIV. With an early diagnosis and put on a clear treatment pathway and guaranteed access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), people living with HIV can expect to have a near-normal life expectancy and live healthy and active lives.
ix. Oldham’s HIV testing coverage has significantly declined. The testing coverage rate for men has increased both regionally and nationally while Oldham’s rate decreased slightly by 3.7 percentage points. Over the same period, has been a sharp decrease in the testing coverage for women in Oldham particularly since 2013 while decreases regional and national level have been less severe. Testing coverage for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) was similar to national rates.
x. Late diagnosis is the most important factor associated with HIV-related morbidity and mortality in the UK (BASHH 2008). There is an impact of late diagnosis on individual health, public health and health budgets. Late diagnosis increases the likelihood of the need for complex and expensive treatment and the risk of onward transmission to others. In 2015, 39% of people were diagnosed with HIV at a late stage of infection (with a CD4 count <350 cells per mm3). Fortunately Oldham does not have a high rate of diagnosed HIV with 1.35 persons diagnosed with the condition in every 1,000 of the population; however worryingly there is a high incidence of late diagnosis in 42.9% of cases.
xi. The lifetime treatment cost of living with HIV is estimated to be around £360,000. Late diagnosis increases further the cost of HIV treatment by 50%.
xii. Developing a Greater Manchester city-region approach to the eradication of HIV within a generation is an objective of the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan.
Recognising the weight of evidence in favour of expanding local HIV testing services, Oldham Council resolves to:
· Work, with partners, towards attaining the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 targets;
90% of all people living with HIV will know their status
90% of all people living with HIV will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART)
90% of all people living with HIV on ART will have durable viral suppression.
· Look to introduce HIV testing services in primary care settings in this Borough including GP surgeries and health clinics, as per the recommendations made in national HIV guidance, guidance issued by NICE, and by the sexual health charity The Terrance Higgins Trust.
· Conduct a review of the current services available in this Borough in consultation with people living with HIV, their partners and carers, and relevant bodies such as local LGBT+ groups, The Terrance Higgins Trust, the George House Trust and Healthwatch Oldham, to determine how else they may be improved or made more accessible.
· Support the Greater Manchester (GM) city region approach to eradicating HIV within a generation.
Council further resolves to:
· Ask the Director of Public Health to provide a report outlining what needs to be done locally in the commissioning and provision of services in order to support the 90-90-90 targets and GMs ambition to eradicate HIV within a generation.
· Work with sexual health services to address the decline of HIV testing rates for men and women in the borough.
· Adopt the GM Model to increase HIV testing and associated interventions.
· Support the provider of our Specialist Sexual Health Service to successfully implement the NHS England funded Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV prevention programme. Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, is a way for people who do have HIV, but who are at substantial risk of HIV infection to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV.
· Promote the National HIV Testing Week which starts on the 18th November 2017, and promote both the It Starts with Me campaign and the National HIV Testing Week each year.’”
Councillor Moores exercised his right of reply. Councillor Moores ACCEPTED the AMENDMENT.
A vote was then taken on the AMENDMENT.
On being put to the VOTE, the AMENDMENT was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
On being put to the VOTE, the SUBSTANTIVE MOTION was CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
RESOLVED that in recognition of the weight of evidence in favour of expanding local HIV Testing services:
1. To work, with partners, towards the attainment of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 targets; 90%
90% of all people living with HIV will know their status; 90% of all people living with HIV will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART); 90% of all people living with HIV on ART will have durable viral suppression.
2. Introduction of HIV testing services in primary care settings in this Borough including GP surgeries and health clinics, as per the recommendations made in national HIV guidance, guidance issued by NICE, and by the sexual health charity The Terrance Higgins Trust be looked into.
3. A review be conducted of the current services available in this Borough in consultation with people living with HIV, their partners and carers, and relevant bodies such as local LGBT+ groups, The Terrance Higgins Trust, the George House Trust and Healthwatch Oldham, to determine how else they may be improved or made more accessible.
4. The Greater Manchester (GM) city region approach to eradicating HIV within a generation be supported.
5. The Director of Public Health be asked to provide a report that outlined what needs to be done locally in the commissioning and provision of services in order to support the 90-90-90 targets and GMs ambition to eradicate HIV within a generation.
6. To Work with sexual health services to address the decline of HIV testing rates for men and women in the borough.
7. The GM Model to increase HIV testing and associated interventions be adopted.
8. The provider of our Specialist Sexual Health Service be supported to successfully implement the NHS England funded Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV prevention programme. Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, is a way for people who do have HIV, but who are at substantial risk of HIV infection to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV.
9. The National HIV Testing Week which starts on the 18th November 2017 be promoted, and both the It Starts with Me campaign and the National HIV Testing Week be supported each year.
Motion 3
The Mayor informed the meeting that the time limit for this item had expired and Councillor Ali as Mover of the Motion and Councillor Jacques as Seconder of the Motion requested the Council permit the following motion be rolled over for discussion at the next Council meeting.
“This Council notes with great concern that Greater Manchester Police’s budget has been reduced by £180m since 2010, reducing nearly a quarter of its front-line officers and 1,000 support staff as government austerity budgets sought to reduce the cost of Britain’s public services.
With 6,200 officers, reduced from 8,000 a decade ago, GMP is so stretched that officers from specialist divisions are being drafted in to help with community policing. Officers are being directed away from the Serious Crime Unit, which usually deals with robbery, kidnapping and drug dealers.
In Oldham, 4,839 more crimes were reported per annum in 2017 than in 2011, an increase of 27%. This reflects the regional picture, with crime up across Greater Manchester by 13% in the same period. Oldham performs worse in 11 of the 17 categories identified by official police and crime statistics which include huge rises in categories identified by official police and crime statistics which include huge rises in violence (131%), shoplifting (75%) and public order offences (244%).
The Government has not protected police budgets as promised. Home Office Figures in England and Wales between September 2010 and September 2016 record that the number of police officers fell by 18,991, or 13%. The problem is compounded by sickness absence rates. Nearly 2,500 officers – about 2% of the total workforce – were classified as being on long term sick leave, an 11.5% increase on 2015. Overall police budgets, excluding counter-terrorism grants, fell by 20% between 2010 and 2015 which is completely unsustainable.
This Council condemns these cuts in policing in the strongest possible terms threatening as they do the excellent policing we have in Oldham and putting at risk the safety and security of our local diverse community.
This Council resolves to:
- Instruct the Chief Executive to convey this Motion and the Council’s strong concerns about these matters to the Mayor of Greater Manchester and the Home Secretary.
- Instruct the Chief Executive to write to the Home Secretary asking her to increase Police numbers in order to safeguard our residents and communities.”
RESOLVED that the Motion be rolled over to the Council meeting to be held on 13th December 2017.