Issue - meetings

To receive the annual CSE Report.

The Leader presented the report of the Director: Policy and Governance. 

The purpose of this report was to provide an update to Members on the actions taken to date since the Independent Chair of the Independent Inquiry into CSE, Tom Crowther KC, published his 2-year review report on 12 July 2024 and to provide the CSE Annual Report in respect of 2023/24.

The Annual Report provided the Council, and partner organisations, with data that allowed for continuous challenge of the Council’s procedures and practices.

Upon being put to the vote it was, unanimously:

RESOLVED – that:

a)    the Council restate its commitment to continue its work, through co-production with lived experience consultees and partners as appropriate, to respond to the challenge of CSE within the Borough;

b)   the proposal for the Leader to write to government to ask that it mandates the publication by all local authorities of data akin to that included in the Council’s Annual Report be approved;

c)    the update provided in this report on the actions taken following the publication of Tom Crowther KC’s review report in July 2024 be noted;

d)    the contents of the Annual Report be noted; and

e)     the work the Council is doing to share learning within the local government sector be noted.