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Mourning everyone, and welcome to another formal meeting of Cabinet, take place on Tuesday, this of November 2024. Just wanting to also welcome guests and some public that may be watching by the Council's youth panel. For those members that may be participating in this Cabinet meeting via the livestream or online, you'll be able to participate in the debate, but you're an item or vote if you are not present, if the voting just applies to Cabinet members only. If you are renting to speak to any item, and indeed if you are introducing an item, could you please state clearly your name, your portfolio position and also if appropriate, if you feel like it, the wall that you represent. In this glorious London of Durham, and similarly for officers, if you are going to be contributing to any of the debates around these do you introduce yourselves in your role at the Council for those members of the executive or officers who are joining our meeting online. Do you kindly raise your hand using the virtual hand symbol on these in dashboard, and I will be asking the clock to advise me if there is anyone wanting to do that. And then finally, I wanted to make note we're heading into remembrance on the this coming weekend, and before we conclude today's take a few additional comments, we're now moving on to the agenda, apologies for absence, Joy, may I receive formal apologies for absence that you've taken. Thank you very much, and also apologies from Councillor Councillor Bloss Young, and I also wanted to note apologies from Rachel Muffoy, our monitors, and her colleagues, and I think that the meeting is deputising, I think it's a cabinet meeting for the monitoring officer. Thank you very much. So we are just moving on to declarations of interest, please, across some of these reports coming to this forwarding of cabinet. Firstly, there are a number of exempt appendices, as it relates to various cabinet reports, agenda item six, seven, nine, and 11 and 14, typically. In addition to that, note the codes of conduct, please could you declare any discloser for pecuniary or non-concernary interests that have been made on any of the matters that we're going to be discussing this morning, and making decisions on, are there any interests that's assigned, and that's a no from everyone to do myself. Colleagues, can we just note the minutes of the last meeting of cabinet held on the 15th of October 2024, specifically note the decisions of cabinet made, can I just invite cabinet members only to confirm that those are an accurate record of the decisions made at cabinet, is that agreed. Sorry, but I've got Councillor Sean in the clean. Thank you, Chair. Just in, I remember from the meeting, there was a correction to be made on the pro form, the library, and in the minutes, it says that the cabinet is in public, direct to that seat, for resources was going to make those amendments. So I'll just wondering if that had happened. So, can you just clarify which section of the report you felt, if I need to. On page 17, I'm at the end of, never the end of the page on the appendix point, so it's part of the final paragraph for sentence. The lead member from finance and resources requested that the recommendations be amended. It's above that, the positive point, yeah. So that the appropriate text would be added, I just wanted to check that out. Okay, so it's a third bullet point in the penultimate paragraph on the bottom of page 17, appendix B, page 1 or the entry pack, page 15, library review, the text and the additional information box related to children's centres, corporate director resources said that the appropriate text would be added. Just needed confirmation that that's been or has been done. That's right there, yes. So the updated pro formers will be subsequently published, republished as part of the ongoing budget process. And those and other corrections picked up in minutes here will be will be dealt with at that stage. Absolutely, yes. Oh, okay, fine. Joy, can we just capture that for the perhaps today's report. Great. I'm going to go back to cabinet members again, just to confirm. Look, we get out and aids against agenda item three on accurate record the decisions taken at cabinet on the 15th of October. Is that agreed? Agreed. Right, thank you very much. Just to move on to four, on appointments to outside bodies, there's no appointments to outside bodies presently. And that needs to be announced. However, if I do want to clarify that in the context of the recent changes that I've made to cabinet arrangements where I've assigned Councillor Amoverde a role with regards to housing services alongside appointing Councillor Blossom Young. Councillor Amoverde still retains his responsibilities for community safety and crime. So can that be noted? Okay, we're going to be now moving to an amendment. Sorry, agenda item five, which is a amendment to the budget proposals. As we take this paper, I would also like to say a few words with regards to this, but I will be inviting Councillor Zulfica Ali to introduce this paper. And when I invite Conrad Hall, could you kindly also just for verbal summary of any material matters as it pertains to government's first interim statement speak that we need to note that this meeting of cabinet. And I know that works underway with regards to further analysis of the autumn statement and implications for new accounts or as we are still working very hard. On the scale of savings that we're going to have to identify as a budget setting process for 2526. So in the first instance, Zulfica, would you kindly introduce the agenda item five? Thank you, Chair. Councillor Zulfica Ali, Cabinet Leif and Finance and Resources. Chair, as we know that this administration is committed to working with the recognized unions, and that has been the case for many years since we have been in this administration. We are going through a substantive tenure transformation program and in order to make sure that we continue to meet the needs of residents, but as well as the staff who are our biggest assets, and we need to make sure that they are supported and the rights are protected. And you know, we want to retain good employee employer relationship and utilize the best practice in that regard. And clearly, we want to invest in other staff. This proposal was included in the options agreed by the cabinet on 15th of October. However, you may know that the government has published the employment rights bill, offering a new deal and hope for work is in this country. And also in light of the transformation and the change, by barking upon it, it is critical for the trade unions activities. And on that basis, Chair, I recommend to the cabinet to withdraw the 120,000 saving proposals, which were agreed on the 15th of October. I will say that more detailed work is underway in order to find additional savings, which will be part of the January and July budget report. And so without further ado, Chair, I regret that it was included. Perhaps it should not have been, but the government's publication of employment rights bill necessitated with the new situation. So on that basis, I asked the cabinet to agree to withdraw 120,000 saving from the staff's facility time. OK, thank you very much. Look, I'm going to add a few comments. It shouldn't have come as part of saving proposals, first and foremost. We have had a clear and standing commitment as administration, that we support rights agenda generally and specifically in the context of worker rights. And ministerial workers rights in light of the scale of an equity that exists in our borough. Indeed, we were amongst the first local authorities in the country to implement rights unit to support our residents who operate in the great economy or in the insecure economy. And also given the scale of transformation and change that we're going to be embarking on at the council in response to the financial challenges that we're facing as a council having healthy and positive relationships with our union staff representatives who represent the hardworking public sector. Oh, at noon council is really important to us. It's a valuable learning lesson and no doubt as we move forward in furthering our deep relationships with our trade union representatives and galvanising our staff members in our pursuit. Of the agenda of building a fair and neural this minor blip will pass. I think it is also important to reflect the rate under a new national government. And I know that we're quite used to having to be in position to a government because we don't align as a administration with its values. And I'm referencing the previous government that this is a government now that we are indelibly linked with and they're doing great staff as part of rebuilding this country. Workers rights has been a cornerstone of the labour movement and that's something that we should preserve. As we pursue our transformative and reformist education locally. So thank you very much that's all required for having the grace to word and thank you very much. Have members and the wider executive in your engagement on this front. I'm going to pass over to Conrad Hall in the first instance and then Gordon if you have any comments I'll see you. Thank you Mayor. So I'm Conrad Hall, the corporate director of the courses and the statutory finance officer for the council. I've nothing specific to add to the detail of this report but if it is helpful where I can give a brief update on what we know and indeed do not yet know about the budget announcement by the chair for the last. When's there in the process of updating members on that? That will be helpful, Mayor. Thank you, yes. So towards the end of this week or perhaps more realistically at the beginning of next week. I will provide a briefing to all members of the council on the implications for new them of the Chancellor's budget last Wednesday. It's sort of an important advance warning on that. I think it's imperative that I stay there is much at this stage that we do not yet know. So to some extent what I will be doing is is quantifying the sort of possible range of impacts rather than being able to say precisely what it will mean for us or detail while I'm in the coming days as we lead up the local government finance settlement. Perhaps if I give two examples of the range of uncertainty it might help to illustrate the extent of the impact or potential impact I should have of that budget for us. So one announcement that has been significant discussed in the press and elsewhere is the changes to employers, national insurance contributions, preliminary analysis and it's not yet finalised but we think that the direct cost to the council of that for our own contributions to our own employees will be of the order of some four and a half million pounds per year. And so if one thinks about the three-year financial planning period that we're working to from 25, 26 to 78 that if it were not funded by government would add some 13 and a half million pounds to the already substantial savings target. Now it is at this stage quite uncertain as to governments approach to funding that for local authorities. So for instance the London Councils which represent all 33 London Boers produced a briefing note that I think has been circulated to all members that indicated quite strongly I think their belief that that would be at least partially if not entirely funded by thank you government, conversely the local government association and we can also circulate to members stated quite strongly the urgent clarification of that was needed for local authorities. Going the other way we know there was an announcement of some 233 million pounds nationally for homelessness and we don't know the distribution of that that won't be announced until the provisional local government finance settlement that I expect some point in mid-December or so however if one assumes that that is distributed in the way that existing grants for homelessness are distributed and I don't know that but it's a reasonable starting point for any analysis. Do them share of that might be as much as say perhaps eight billion pounds per year or grossing it up 24 million pounds of benefit when you are financial planning period but I emphasize that I do not know how that is going to be distributed so I merely so starting point to sort of illustrate the potential scale assume that it will be distributed in the same way as some existing grants in that space. So those two examples I think illustrate that the 175 million target that we have published for that three year period could one hand please expect a national insurance contributions whether that may be partially or wholly funded by central government and may decrease quite substantially for example to around about 150 million pounds if my assumption on that distribution is correct in respect of homelessness. So those are two obvious and sort of contrasting if you like uncertainties in the impact of the budget for Newham there are several others that again we are working to get what information we can. I will produce a briefing note for all members of the council certainly no later than early next week or the end of this week if I can manage it depends on what information is made available to us and that will be circulated to all members. I understand that's normal and the briefing has been scheduled for the evening of Tuesday of next week so certainly by then I will provide such information as I can but again I I'm I must emphasize that there will be some considerable uncertainties some extent what I will be doing is quantifying the range of those uncertainties providing a definitive picture at that stage I think there's a wealth more sort of detail in that but I mean you're without going into yeah I hope that just sort of illustrates the scale of uncertainty that we're working to and the likely timescale for being able to provide a substantive update on that so I pause that but have to take questions as I say we'll be at the all members of the briefing next week. Yeah I'm going to suggest that we don't take questions only because we'll get into how long as a piece of string we can ruminate about whether it was in statement forever and Gordon did you want to add anything with regards to this just in terms of any officer assurance around trade union relations at the council between management and offices. Thank you Chair. It's all a violent direct relation. So I suppose part of my role is this to have resources in the portfolio and the picture that contains the context that we were made to change the events of transformation and change that we go to and trade union it's absolutely essential we have good relations but these are new practicality around as well as sufficient officer but on issues and we've done some major change that we can have sufficient trade union capacity to work with us and at that point that we're working for is you know being like relations cultures I think this picture itself is just right. So thank you very much colleagues I'm going to suggest that we just go straight to the foundations and vote and this is just for cabinet members only. So recommendations are set out on big page number 20 for the reason set out on the report and its appendices. Cabinet is recommended to agree 2.1 to remove the proposal a 15 renegotiate trade union officer from its list of budget options being considered at the present time. 2.2 to note that this will add 120k to the overall budget gap and just as an aside as Councillor Zulfka Ali has stated very clearly we'll be finding that 120k as part of the savings replacement and then 2.3 to note the advice of the corporate director of resources who is our section 1.5.1 of the civil card and the chances budget of 30th October 2024 and will be receiving further updates in two calls. Cabinet members only is that agreed. That's all agreed thanks Joy by all of us. You are now moving to the agenda item 6 which is green team led housing for a long thought interest in land within Canningtown more and that's covered up in the cabinet report big page number 2320. Please can I just remind members that there are exempt appendices for this item and should any member wish to raise a matter relating to anything contained in the exempt appendices I will have to evoke the exclusion of press public instrument that we have. So over to Councillor Verde who is the cabinet member for housing homelessness and private rented sector as well as retake portfolio responsibilities for community safety and crime. Thank you Chair. Councillor Mavody, Cabinet member has needs homelessness private rented sector and community safety and crime. To introduce this paper this proposal relates to administration's commitment to support community land trust just for abbreviation purposes that's CLT because I know we discussed. Governments in the boroughs part of this policy approach to delivery of genuine and affordable homes that local people can afford. As well as its alignment to community wealth with an agenda inclusive flow strategy, CLTs are non-profit organisations that develop and maintain affordable homes, community garden, civic buildings, hubs, shops and other assets on behalf of the community. We can control those assets in the hands of local people. The report sets out how the Council proposes to lease at nil cost their unused piece of land to e16 community land trust. To develop a small scheme of affordable homes, e16 CLT will seek planning permission source development finance and manage the construction process. The homes will be sold at a price that is affordable to someone on an average income in NUM and kept affordable for future buyers. Community lead housing is about empowering local people to make a difference to the challenges faced in local areas. The depth and impact of housing prices means that a wide range of solutions are needed. Community lead housing is a movement that has been growing in popularity and profile across London and this will be the first such development in NUM. e16 CLT is supported by a well-established community lead housing London who work with community groups, councils and housing associations and developers to provide expertise in the duty of community lead housing. Community lead housing London is supported by the Mayor of London in GLA. e16 CLT identified a council home site occupied by this few garages now says no plans to develop itself. The initial plan indicate that the site could do the nine homes, several which will be much needed for family sized homes. By grinding along these on a small unused piece of cast on land, we can support this first step in community lead housing in NUM. I'm supported by Bobbi online for direct pockets. Any questions? Thank you very much. Paul Kitson or Bobbi Arthur, anything that you would like to add? That's excellent. Bobbi, can you hear us? Thank you, Mayor of Canada. Can you hear me? Yeah. So I'm Bobbi Arthur. I'm head of housing strategy and pump trips for the council. It's really just so add that I think working with e16 CLT over a number of years has been really positive experience for me and the officer team working on this project and witnessing the power of the community that wants to empower itself to make a change, to work with experts in sector to create a high quality housing scheme and make something that benefits the community in the long term. This is all out of a small disused garage site that we hold. So the e16 board has a really great range of representatives from the local community, as well as those with residential development experience kind of generally and then experience successfully delivering community lead housing elsewhere in London as council of Erdy said. So I think for the council, this is the disposal of land at no cost but it brings back into use land that's not produced or reused at the moment and in fact there's a cost to the council to maintain it safely. It powers the community group that wants to make a difference. It brings nine new homes to meet housing need that's not currently met and this is a kind of a greater benefit than disposing of the land from market housing which we know doesn't meet the housing needs of so many people in Newham as we've discussed at length elsewhere. So I'd be happy to answer any questions but I think it's an exciting project and one that as I say has some long-term benefits for the community. Thank you very much. I'm just going to add a couple of comments. A colleague says is a really significant and important reflection of delivery that we have made because as you will be aware community land community lead housing and community land boss provision has been objective of this administration since 2018. It's been an important aspect of our housing plans and thinking across both manifestos as iterated and the council's corporate plan. And I think at a time when we need to force an optimal route for housing delivery this is a really excellent achievement. So I just wanted to comment on those and also the present cabinet lead but also the previous cabinet member for this area council, Shagran Mahamid. Both sites, stroke land complexity and also the financials but just really also to assure we have sought assurances from the e16 community land trust that in light of the houses that will be generally affordable for local people these will be available to people with a clear connection i.e. proximity within the geography of Newham in particular. So well done everyone because it's been a bit of a mission to get to this point. So I'm really happy. I don't sound it but now. Right, okay, any questions? Okay, Magdalene. I don't know if officers or cabinet leads at the moment can give us an indication of where else this kind of project might be able to go forward with the new and what's the potential across the bubble do you know. Bobby, I'm going to invite you in but I'm going to say a few things. In the second manifesto we have said that we would like to have at least one other community-led housing site identified. It's not straightforward and it is not easy not least because we've got in parallel a significant mobilisation round on locking land asset that we own in order to deliver affordable homes for our people and we are able to achieve delivery and quite significant delivery and relative to other local authorities in London through the leveraging of grants from the GLA which we've been very successful. So work is underway with regards to identifying a second site but it's not a replacement for the significant scale of housing delivery that we need to achieve in London and in this country and let's not forget under the new government there is an ambitious one-point housing delivery target in a four-year period so we're going to need to be the drivers and engines for that. Bobby, is there anything else that you wanted to add? Thank you, Mayor. I can quickly add that the report does reference very briefly another property actually that has been identified with with the community loan trust which is is in custom house part of e16 which is which is a property that is derelict is in very poor condition the council has no no current plans to bring that back into use so the CRT is looking at that that might well be kind of a community facility a range of community needs to be to met there rather than specifically for housing perhaps in the longer term to be redeveloped for housing but that's the next proposal when we're working actively with the e16 CRT on that to bring that back into productive use and again be a source and a resource for the local community custom house. Okay thank you very much. Are there any other questions otherwise I'm going to just go straight to the recommendations? No it's right okay so colleagues if you could find the note the recommendations on a big page number 24 25 for the reason set out on the report and its appendices cabinet is recommended to and then you'll see 2.1 2.11 2.1 2 and 2.2 and just specifically note on 2.1 1 the land is no longer acquired for the purposes of housing driven by the council for which it is currently held and that it should be appropriated to planning purposes to include appropriate steps to complete the approachation in satisfaction of all legal and regulatory assignments and consideration of any objections. The other element of the recommendations that I wanted to draw your attention to is 2.2 approved the disposal of a 250 year lease in the land to e16 community land trust as set up for an excellent appendice none. Is that agreed to cabinet members only? agreed by all of us thank you Joy we're going to be moving to the next agenda item thank you office colleagues as well we're going to be moving to agenda item seven which is the assisted living for older adults waking in court which has been another site long discussion and driving forward so council know awesome thank you very much chair so council knew a Wilson cabinet member for health and adult social care there is a real need to increase capacity of provision for high quality services and accommodation within the borough being the crucial phrase vulnerable adults in particular the number of care home available beds in new almost reduced by around 40% over the last two years this has led to around half of the residential and nursing beds being sourced outside of the borough and that's more expensive provision and in borough provision residential provision in particulates becoming extremely hard to source in our borough boundaries. So the council intends to acquire and refurbish this property it we believe it will act as a pioneering location for the new and living program in which the council does the investment in building acquiring and transforming the three stages obviously this is an acquisition of an existing building but we are moving through that to miss the purchase vehicle sorry I can't think of the world the DPV the overriding and new and living program to actually make certain that we're also building acquiring and transforming existing buildings into high quality subordination this will be a tangible example of how building a fairer a new home is ensuring building our fairer a new and corporate plan to ensure that I'm proving the services for vulnerable adults this acquisition unlike going to an open market which I would argue is both fragmented and ratcheting up costs not always with quality this acquisition will allow flexibility of placements for residents that are hard to place and reclaim some degree of control over this local market which I've referred the service will be commissioned through the supported accommodation and there's the phrase dynamic purchase vehicle I was muddled it up which was agreed in cabinet in June 2022 with the cabinet agreeing to find a contract aboard for provider we had a approval from this cabinet in April the acquisition and refurbishment which was part of a wider strategy it was progressing as expected it's taken some domain to which the chair alluded might's coming back here to a range of complete the various surveys required and finalising queries but both the current owner which is the housing trust of a corporation the London and Quadrant housing trust that accounts for an agreement now with current time scale as both parties wish to ensure appropriate due diligence it's pretty straight units shared bathrooms previous cabinet been mocked with model was a split use in the building with 16 units being for residential care and seven units for supported living that the feasibility study brought forward that we needed extensive reconfiguration and modernisation the more you delve in the more the fact that you can't just acquire a building the shell you need to adapt to the very real needs of for the vulnerable adults of the token down we can do for ensuite units with a number of shared spaces and we've got a more optimal configuration now allowing the focus in the building to be on specialised supported housing existed living for older people with high needs very expensive packages sometimes in the private sector rather than a split you supported living and residential care so it's an optimal configuration and you are having increased income through the housing benefit to support the pervishment while having additional benefits for the residential outcomes and as a result the budget has increased with a new cost built into the financial modelling but it demonstrates the acquisition remains financially in addition the scheme is profile to save the council and an excess of 250k per year once it's fully mobilised and if I just bring in Councillor Mumtos for just a quick two points as well introduce yourself thank you very much Councillor Neil Wilson it's Mumtoscan deputy cabinet member for health and social care adult social care so I'll just add a bit more on the actual property property is situated on the corner of Haley Road and Katharine Road at the western end of Haley Road so Green Street offers a number of basic amenities Katharine Road with a lot of local shops the proposal for the property is to be used socialised supported housing are made available to local residents with high social social care and support needs okay thank you very much are there any question of colleagues don't know whether whether or not certainly I think to add I'm just happy to answer any question okay fine um right the social key has a comment Jay thank you I mean I do remember this indication it's been okay for a long time so it's good to see it's coming to some sort of conclusion now and obviously it's going to cost a lot more now can I ask a question about the contingency seem to have substantial contingency I have mentioned the report good I mean since we only done the feasibility in April should there be that level of contingency at this point in time so I'm going to say I think that's a question for Simon to actually be too uh the valuation and the process and all of the finances have been done by kind of finance colleagues who pull together all of our investment appraisals and that's the contingency that they've recommended okay so what's the issue I just the level of contingency very well we only had the feasibility in April you know it is something that needs to be done for all to be part of the well-programmed for the contingency unless we think they're very smart competitors which they believe in someone degree of uncertainty over the life of the problem after the other reason I okay I'm going to cause you there because I'm going to just remind cabinet colleagues these types of questions to be clarified ahead of formal meetings cabinets and my assumption is and I have no reason not to believe it's true that there is a high degree of assurance that that contingency element and amount is appropriate for the nature of the scheme yeah okay fine thank you very much are there any other questions all right colleagues can we just move to the recommendations I set out on big page number 40 what no no yeah thank you one um so you know that the recommendations are covered of 2.1 increase the agreed allocation capital funds for the acquisition and refurbishment of weight green court from 2.5 million to 4.3 million 2.2 to delegate authority to the corporate director of adults and health in consultation with lead member to commence and improve the procurement process for contract for the refurbishment of property up to 3.2 million 2.3 to delegate authority to the corporate director of adults and health in consultation with the lead member to help social care etc so are those recommendations agreed are those agreed agreed agreed yep those are all agreed got stuck by way of conclusion the other thing that I would add please be really clear contingency budgets are simply contingency budgets they are not contingency budgets for everyone to have or think happy days and you can spend it there is no need to be an assurance provided by corporate directors and cabinet members projects are delivered and formatted with agreed budget outside of contingency elements okay all right so let's move on item 8 commissioning intentions specialist SRH services um over to you Nell thank you very much chair so Neil Wilson cabinet lead for adults local authorities are mandated under the terms of the health and social care act 2012 to mission sexual and reproductive health which is in report abbreviated to SRH those SRH services are on behalf of our residents clearly in the period of 2014 to 2017 there was a major transformation at a pan London level so across London they were transformed contraceptive services and services for the screening and treatment of the sexually transmitted infections were also greater than this very clear envelope of responsibilities to improve health problems for our residents and significant savings as part of that transformation and local the queue trust the one of the largest I think the largest in England the NHS parts awarded a contract by the cabinet in July 2017 to reflect that new set of responsibilities on our behalf that contract for the all-east specialist services due to expire and with no further options to extend so cabinet is being asked to approve the commissioning intention set out in this report specifically the decision to be a direct award of contract to parts health this is quite unusual in many respects because I think that adults and health demonstrated over the time of this administration that we take the commissioning role and the monitoring of contracts very seriously it's not just the commissioning role as a contract compliance role as a quality assurance role so I want to reassure colleagues that we don't take this sort of moving on the same provider decision likely the provision in this report is for the incumbent provider for these statutory services under a direct award procedure very rarely used as I say of not very used often at all and that's a direct award procedure for the provider selection regime under the PSR regulations the intention is to pursue a five-year contract with options to extend for up to three additional years so it's a five plus one plus one plus one with an estimated maximum contract value of 32.9 million over those eight years if it worked to be the whole eight-year program a direct award of contract is deemed appropriate for three main reasons I want to underline this chair in my brief remaining minutes that the performance of your incumbent provider is satisfactory there is no significant change to the value of the contract and there's no significant change to the scope of the service provision so I commend the report cabinet view thanks very much based on assignment any additional comments or Kiran I've got Kiran Scott thank you so much okay hi thank you man Jason I think there's just a few things that I'd like to highlight this is one of the first kind of significant transformations this administration ladon so it's very much from your time leading new him and I think it's a really great example of what we're all trying to do the financial situation is very challenging but and that leads to kind of as having to explore creative options working with our residents to design services that work for them we've managed to design an online sexual health service through this period of time which now serves 30% of all sexual health tests that saves his money it saves residents time because they're not having to take half a day off to go to various appointments and it improves outcomes for residents overall the transformation of sexual health in northeast London led by new him has significantly moved things forward at a pace that's rarely seen in the NHS and again that has probably saved the council around a million in growth over this period of time but also delivered higher quality services more people are receiving long act to reversible contraception and more people are receiving HIV prevention drugs than ever before so I think it's a really good example of transformation using digital and non digital designing services with residents and it's very much now on to the next phase of that work. Brilliant thank you very much are there any questions colleagues? Councillor Murrath of Patel. Thank you Chair. I commend this report and and the team well I didn't much need it and an essential service is to to residents in Newham and of course I'm fine you know some of the essential services they actually just by just wondering how this gets into the 50 steps to help you in Newham. Very good I'll take that first and then I'll go off and I mean clearly you know the health health and well-being board is the owner of the 50 steps strategy we're clearly working towards a greater integration and I think this is a really good example of Newham being a lead provider as Simon has said and it's highlighted in report it's not just about tackling inequalities because there's inequalities because of stigmatisation amongst the communities if I just quickly reference I think I did last when another report came in the underrepresentation of glycophicum population and the ability for women to actually get the lack procedures the you know the stigmatisation is a community we throughout the 50 steps have said that we are being being measured by outcomes and make certain it's also the lens of tackling some of those long standing inequalities about access to services so I think this is a really good example of how we can work with parts of and be the lead provider borough makes certainly other northease London boroughs are also because similar demographics different challenges but same issues are often sadly about stigmatisation about people wanting to remain as anonymous as possible hence the online offer and also people don't have to go to their nearest provider through a GP if they don't have that degree of trust there's a whole series of issues there I want to reassure this cabinet and the wider people watching that this is certainly consistent and I think a coherent approach to dealing with some of these long-standing inequalities I think I've said in other places that hold on HIV or sexual health are seeing a sort of an adult it's certainly crucial to some of our communities and making the health progress for your want thank you very much and I'm going to suggest that we just move straight on to recommendations now I can't see any other pressing questions so on big page number 41 no that's not wrong yeah I've got it sorry so we've got recommendations on big page number 53 for the reason set out on the report and it's appendicit cabinet is recommended to approve the commissioning intentions for specialist SRH services set out on the report agrees that commissioners can proceed direct to ward of an eight years contract five years with the extension periods for the provision of statutory specialization relationship health services to bat health NHS trust incumbent provider under direct award procedure C of the provider such an regime 2023 PRESR regulations and waive the contract standing orders as required for award 2.3 delegate authority to director of adults health and communities in consultation sorry we keep on getting the corporate director title wrong it's not communities it's director of adults and health sorry it's director of health and adult social care could we just get that corrected and could we just have some quality assurance it keeps on creeping up delegate authority to the corporate director of health and adults social care in consultation with the lead member of the health and adult social care to 2.3.2 and then the final recommendation is 2.4 note that 2.4.1 the estimated total value of contract to know them is in the range of 32 to 36 million over eight years and 2.2.4 award of a contract will be subject to each as far as agreement the contract should be awarded right is that agreed good to agree right you're very much right let's move on to the future use of dept in health and cap campsite i'm going to be inviting council to talk to the car Ali to talk to this primarily in the absence of council Sarah Rooz I will be inviting council Madeline Ponton to also talk to this report um over to you in the first instance thank you chair this as you write it's the joint report and this concern the stark side that the council owns in Apping Forest area and the site is at a unique location and offers potentially the ledger activities which have served our community and visitors like for many years currently the site is managed by CYPS young children and people services although definite site is used by some new schools and that is you know primarily for activity such as camping i would like to say that the the large majority of the business is not from new homes schools or residents it is primarily used for conferences and leisure camping by wide range of customers across London and southeast and i'm afraid the the use is declining just to give you some demonstrates the diminishing years the the last session data shows that around 18% of users were only from nip so chair we are looking at all our assets and depth and is one of the major assets we we need to look at and the just the officers work on this one demonstrates that they have to need a fix in with the CYPS's education or primary focus and improving children's and young people's education provision and nor does it have any clear fit with any other council departments our activities because the council does not have a specialist lay services expertise which are needed in this case and nor would this be a the core function of the council as many members will know we do have another site fair playhouse and this also sits within children and young people's services and is a much clearer fit with the service and its objectives and this this is a dedicated outdoor education center which is well used by new schools to provide residential outdoor learning opportunities and we are committed to this as part of our enrichment activities our children and young people. As the report outlined the site now faces significant challenges in terms of aging infrastructure and lack of capital investment and its misalignment with council's code functions particularly in relation to the children and young people's services. We have ongoing financial pressures the council and we need to focus our limited resources on delivering key services to our residents and it is both brilliant and necessary to review our position on our assets which includes clearly dubbed in house. In doing so chair you will recall that the proposed agreed by the cabinet on 15th of the October included potentially say in the double house as part of the second charge where engagement is to be undertaken and I'm pleased to say that I engage in the process ongoing and if feedback from that process will be part of the consideration once the engagement sessions are concluded. As I said earlier today this site has served a useful purpose in the past it's the legacy and unfortunately the continued operation is not sustainable without substantial investment which is clearly not possible in the current financial climate and it's also clear that the the primary users of the site are not new residents and it is not a thing it's cost at this stage. So I would like the cabinet to carefully consider the option laid out in the report because we want to make sure that we secure the best outcome for the council as well as our residents. But the proposed sale does offer an opportunity to realize significant capital usage that can be used to reduce the council debt and safeguard essential services. At the same time we will continue our commitment as I said earlier to Fair Playhouse ensuring that our children and young people still have access to valuable outdoor learning experiences. This is to say why is it difficult to select the duty to manage our assets responsibly and in the best interest our borrow and our residents. I would like to invite Jars to Conrad if they could plan a bit more in terms of the process they figure it out. I know you won't because I'm going to be and I'm going to say a few words in terms of decision. Thank you. Thank you, Mary. Thank you, Zulpe. Fair Playhouse has a dear place in many people's hearts. However, it was originally set up to service the needs of the new population at a previous point in time when needs were different. Currently the users of the Fair Playhouse facility, 82% of them come from outside of the borough so therefore we are spending new and okay. 18% of the use is by new residents and 82% is from out non-new residents, yeah. So therefore we are currently running Fair Playhouse as a not-for-profit part of the service with poor new and residents and it's not even for new and residents. I think those are the main arguments at this present time. To make it profitable for new and residents hasn't been possible for over 20 years and to invest now to make it something that meets needs have to undertake a very wide-ranging, in-depth assessment of what it was that new residents actually need but what we've been told by the use by new residents is that what we have currently is not what they need. So therefore we feel that it is better to capitalise on the financial potential of the site to actually plan back into key and essential services within children and the young people's provision. I will apply that last comment because it's not a determination for any singular department as to any opportunity or benefit accrued from a disposal of an asset if that's what we took out to decide to do that it's restricted to a particular service area. It's not for meant generally. Yeah so it's for the council through its political leadership and through the policy and budget set in process to determine what happens with regards to our money and obviously with an I-2 175 million pound-for-cost budget gap as a consequence of simply accommodation granted also children's services and adult social care. We're going to need to fill that gap and that gap is going to be filled through patients, savings, transformation but also making sure that we're optimising and doing things as it relates to outcomes we want to achieve. But that's fine thank you very much. I just wanted to make that clear. Thank you very much. Sorry I missed this spoke. I'm a more general service, essential services. I'm going to now move and invite any relevant officers and then I'm going to make some concluding remarks over any questions because I'm quite keen that we move to recommendations. But Charles Clark, the director of the property is online who may wish to add any clarification about the process and it's certainly able to take questions from the members of the cabinet. If you could kindly just provide a summary around process, the point that I wanted to make before you do is I appreciate that this is a well-loved and used in some instances but as Councillor Sallie Pumpton has stated only 18% of our resident population are using this beautiful site, let's not get, let's be under no illusion, it is a gorgeous green space. The process does allow the identification of a number of different options and it could be the case that it continues to be used for that type of activity subject to what comes forward through a open transparent market process. So, Charles, over to you. Thank you Mayor. I was just going to make the point that you have just made about the openness of the process and the clear possibility that some of the existing uses will remain and be managed by purchases. The other point to note is that if the recommendation is approved today, the property wouldn't go onto the market until the spring of 2025. This is mainly to allow the summer camping season for next year to continue in the event that there are existing bookings. So, they will be able to run its course and also a process like this isn't something that is necessarily quick because it is a slightly unusual property, unusual in respect that properties like this don't come onto the market all of the time. So, if you want to make sure that it is fully exposed to the market and there is a very thorough process that we will adopt to do that. Thank you very much. Okay, any questions? Councillor Schale and McLean. But thank you, Chair. Councillor Schale and McLean, Cabinet Member, for recent engagement, and recent experience. Apologies I didn't introduce myself when I spoke previously. Just a couple of points for me. So, as Councillor Rivera isn't present and I know that she would say so I'm going to say on her behalf that in the introduction it says that she's pleased to present this report and I don't think she would actually be pleased that sense to present this report. So, I'm making those comments on her behalf in her absence. I know that from the engagement sessions that we've been having with residents that there's been, you know, people have expressed their dismay that the stepped in house and campsite is being sold. So, I think it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that. But on listening to the debate and thinking about this as a new resident that actually this could be quite an exciting opportunity for the site to have another, you know, a new lease of life. You know, there's three parts of it, there's the terrace houses, the campsite and the actual grade two I think is listed as itself. But, you know, the site was entrusted to us and actually it's not serving its purpose with us anymore. So, you know, it's only right that it should have its its future years and being used in a different way. One of the things that I wanted to mention is that I know that it was said that there was 80% of new residents that I'm not using, 82% that are not, which I'll, you know, when you hear those figures, it, you know, it makes you think, okay, well, those 80% of people that are new residents that are using the site, it would be good to have an understanding about what they actually use the site for. And if there's any ways that some other assets that we have can be, you know, utilised for them, for example, I know that there's the wood coffin use it, could they utilise purple house, you know, there are other facilities that we have. And so, I think that if we explore those sort of things, that actually the, the heartstrings pulling off, okay, well, you're setting Debton, you're getting rid of our history. Actually, we can move forward and we could all, yeah, benefit from this. And so, yeah, that was my comments, Jeff. All right. Thank you very much. And I just think the purposes of today's decision-making meeting, those comments are noted. And as we progress, the requisite member oversight and rigor from the relevant cabinet members, those points are taken into account in their discussions with officers as opposed to having a debate here about those really pertinent points and valued points. So, thank you for that. Right. Anything, Kels Jarls? No. I'm going to then move to the recommendations are set out on big page number 75. So, for the reasons that out in the report and its exempt appendices, cabinet is recommended to agree 2.1 all the way through to two points. And just for cabinet members only, do we agree? Is that agreed? Is that agreed? Is that agreed? I agree. That's agreed by cabinet members here and myself. Thank you very much. Right. Now, we're going to be moving to agenda item 10, which is the Queen, this first Olympic Park Highway Improvement Projects, Covering Coversers Road, Call Street and Marfgate Lane. Again, as Councillor Sarah Ruhr is under which environment and sustainable transport comes under in terms of portfolio responsibilities. As a cabinet member, he's absent. So, I am going to invite Councillor John Morris to introduce this paper. I'll add a few words as it relates to some of the work that we're doing in our partnership with the OLDC and Coversers Estate Reference and Coversers Road Coximity. But, over to you, then, we'll go to officers. Thank you, Chair. My name is Councillor John Morris. I read up the cabinet member of our partners and I'm introducing this item to the audience. The Queen and the Park Highway Improvement Projects, we'll improve the public highway development and enable greater levels of travel through the park, so as well as connecting with greater areas. The chapter about the OLDC and we have a good working relationship to learn over the years of delivering some of our major highway improvements on such projectives, Westview Dominique and New Zealand project coming from the final cities delivery. OLDC, many occasions express their satisfaction in how these works are progressed on-fight by many highways teams. Recently, they have re-approached to expand the work that's delivered. The Queen and the Park project will improve the public road conditions on the residents and its benefit, while I can't tell you no, but in the process cycle, cycling from activity. I also mentioned that well-in-field connections between Shatford and the Lookup Park, currently is not at its best state, and it is in the most interest except the software from the OLDC, particularly as persons and well-invented leadership with them, and at the same time, so we're in the park, particularly as they are paying for the project. Okay, thank you very much, and I am going to just add some additional minor comments. So this is another really significant milestone in the context of how we want to transform Shatford and the neighbourhood in line with Stratford vision into London's first and the dual shift on car driving and having in this part of this global city a livable neighbourhood cannot be underestimated given the significant scale of investment and growth in the north of the borough, not least, the investments that we're making on our own Frontier Acar Carpenter's estate. I think that this will really help aid the connection between up to the state and why the Stratford neighbourhood into the Queen and this park in a way that is safe, pleasant and also encourages the sustainable modalities of walking and cycling, and also will contribute to our 50 steps out of the innumerate, and it's a contribution to an exciting vision that we have for this part of our borough, so well done that this far. I'm going to move to offices first, in case I can't contribute anything, and I wanted to also commend the offices involved for their diligence on this project, call and rex, who are there, so would either of you like to say anything? Thank you very much, rex, you want to say anything? Are you okay? All right, fine, and welcome to, I think this is your first meeting of capital. Oh, you've been before, I think this might be your third. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been counting. All right, okay, I'll end. Yeah, I'll end it with corporate director of Ireland State, the Chancellor, just to raise your members on four million, was there anything stupid? Well, you see there are no financial fast from authority, and we know from LLDC that there are an unfair section one of six within LLDC, which may well in the future be afforded to the council in order to have even better schemes in there, so you see the recommendation is demigated to the cabinet member and myself, in order to put up with any amendments to the scheme and carry out the statutory protocol. Great, thank you very much for okay colleagues, I'm going to take one question from Neil. Mine is more a comment than you've already alluded to, paragraph five one, and across the page on bottom of page 87 to 88 distress, you know, we often look through the lens of highway improvement projects about equality or about accessibility, but as you've already referenced, it is very consistent with our overheading of methamphetamine, which I've already alluded to about their active travel and health. There is, you know, an obvious reference there to the health and well-being strategy, and if we can make maximise the opportunities to enable active travel, it has a really good impact on the 50s tech programme, and it's there as another outcome, as well as a measurable determinant of health. It's got to nudge people to walk more, sorry, to nudge people. Exactly, I mean, it's a sort of providing the infrastructure is one thing, it's about us, you know, with public health messaging for our director as well to consultations. The journey is to next month's cabinet, everyone walks home, say the frustration to be into this bill. Well, you can run. Right, okay, so I can't resist. So recommendations are set out, big page number 85. Do we approve the recommendations? 2.12, 2.13, all the way to 2.1.4, do you agree? Is that agreed? Is that agreed? Okay, fine. Now let's move on to agenda item 11. I am going to be inviting Council John Morris to introduce this one as well in the absence of Council of Rivers. Over to you, John. Thank you, Chair. Following the agenda process, the Council intense a point, a charge point to operate it to a store, which is 225 electric vehicle charges for 15-year contract. So this initiative is funded by the Department of Transport, Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, they've been piloting, and we honestly, as a potential charge point, is being covering about 27 dollar initial costs as we see up e-front and simply remind them. The project aims to increase names told to e-charges for 1,225, exceeding the mayor's commitment to install 1,000 charges between May 2022 and May 2027 by 120 chargers. It also aligns with productions of between 1,100 and 1,600 chargers by 2025 for a potential growth to 3,530. The new Council will lead the e-v-charging entire sphere, set post, global and regional stylers, into the competitive rates of accepting residents from excessive pricing. The project will facilitate the transition to electric vehicles, central for reducing tailpipe emissions and improving air quality, particularly in new air pollution, poses a significant error. The development of e-v-charging costs may incur more environment for industrial public activities towards public transport, towards transport among the public, as well as potentially improving air quality among those which else, as a local 40, has potentially one of the worst qualities in the entire country. Thank you very much. I think this is a pretty straightforward cabinet report. I'm not going to take any questions beyond invite in officers to make any final comments. I'll actually, I'm going to be, we don't have Richard, but we have Charles. Charles, would you like to say anything? I just want to add that this is a great opportunity for me. That sets us in a very good place considering that the deadline for phasing out internal combustion engine is actually approaching. We know the deadline for that to be more 25, but there is a likelihood that it's going to be more 30, 30, in line with the new government manifesto. So this is a great opportunity to tell us when we accept you out for the deadline. Brilliant. Okay, so another good new story that we need to amplify in the end. Okay, Alex. Just to add quickly, this is not using our assets to streetlights. These are all stand-alone charges. We have 60 streetlights in the borrower which are currently used for electric charging. These will be stand-alone and there's in the appendix, you'll see photographs of them. The next batch you'll do, it may well be used in street columns, but there are some technical issues being encountered across London, and then we'll be looking at whether we actually additionally charge the contractor to use our assets. I have to commend Charles and his team. There was only a handful of electric charges about two years ago. It was a serious risk that we weren't going to achieve the manifesto pledge. We're going to exceed that now, and we are now training people in the team in terms of contract managers in order to deliver and really put the electric charging points program on steroids. So we hope to be one of the best in London in about a year, two years. So it's a commendation to the team in order to achieve such a short period of time. Okay fine, thank you very much. And the organic healthy equivalent of steroids. Sounds really exciting and I'm looking forward to having conversations and no doubt we can get some feedback. Other colleagues that drive electrical cars intermittently because they obviously cycle and walk as well. It counts that Anne Easter who doesn't suffer from car-rained anxiety when it travels on electrical vehicle. But I'm particularly interested in the infrastructure aspects and what you were saying around income generation, which we need to be exploiting more and more across all of our public realm assets. Okay, I'm going to pause there and I'm going to just suggest that we move straight onto recommendations for our big page number nine. Can we just approve the recommendation 2.1 for the reasons that I'll keep in the reports and is asked to agree that liberty charge limited trading as the lead be appointed as a preferred charge point operator for this particular civil operator means a 320 electrical vehicle charge and for 15 year concession periods. Is that agreed? We're all agrees by cabinet. Thank you very much. Now we're going to quickly move on to the contact award environment and sustainable transport software. I'm going to be inviting council and Mirage for tell to introduce this on behalf of council resource whose absent and then on moves with people and then we'll actually go straight to recommendations to approve. Yep, go on. Thank you chair. Apologies, I didn't introduce myself earlier. Well, council and Mirage for tell that cabinet member for environment and sustainable transport ISD in brackets utilised portways software package including the Alan back off this system. Mobile app horizons and may rise street works back off this system and a range of statutory roles to facilitate the provision of services to residents and other professional stakeholders. Software systems that offices use need to be reliable and responds to changes in legislation and the needs of local businesses and residents. The AST software package has delivered a range of benefits and services in terms of the improvement of residents including instant online checks for being collection days and real-time updates to residents who fly tip in and little reports enabled by the service using mobile technology to remotely update residents without any time delays as a result of having to reserve to the office and the manual paperwork which has been really labour and and costs intensive and essentially this amalgamates in terms of like that in terms of new things within this particular service area. Ossets have considered the right form and routes available and decided that direct award to Hallsway Technology offers the most cost effective option to deliver their public realm and highway software service providers. Some of the areas in which this is used is waste services as we plan to insert it in part open spaces and multi-life. So I commend this to report that I'm happy to take any questions in. Okay thank you very much. I'm going to just be inviting Faisal or Alex, do you want to talk about this? Not much more to our just to say this is a pivotal in improving the residents experience so when they report flights or hotels it goes directly into the back office system and immediately gets close to the fleet when they're outside so they can improve the speed of collecting flight tips which is at the moment of our 99% full flight tips collected within 24 hours but this will improve the residents really so they know when it's got no longer to get updates and we're working with the software provider to do that. Okay practical human understanding level does that mean that when I use the app I don't get a confusing message that says it's been dealt with when it's still there it will be done and meet what happens because that's been one of an area of our complaints. The apps go into the system and we are aware of it. What the app has got is still this issue where flight tip has been collected where it hasn't been because it's for some reason so we're trying to to solve that issue. The app is not too related to all of it but it goes into the that the customer interface and the information goes along with the service but the response to get from the app is still not good enough. Right so we're turbocharged in the back end through this procurement it will have a I don't know I don't want to be rude about car makes models 18th century from end but that's going to be remedied. Yes. Okay right you're in charge of that and rapidly yeah okay cool. I'll just say that I'll work with you from a large bit now that we've got this new system then we can get the app to speak it will have someone to speak to you now either new system loving the old system they couldn't speak to. Oh right so the skin new system the old there okay the front facing side will be able to convert sector back side. Sure and I just add that this will save a lot of money as well because paper-based services obviously are very very resource intensive so this will have to put something. Got it okay super right let's just move straight to the recommendation set out on pages 1 3 0 and 1 3 1 so for the reason set out on the report cabinet is recommended to agree 2.1 and 2.2 is that agreed? Fine before I move on to item 13 I need to jump back sorry let me correct myself I need to jump us back item 10 the recommendations set on page 85 I need to just get agreement on those again because I missed that 2 5 so on the big page number 85 it says for the reason set out on the report and its tendencies cabinet is recommended to prove the notes 2.1 2.1 because it's 2.1.3 2.1.4 and 2.1.5 and the 2.1.5 relates grant delegated support director of environmental services. So is that agreed? Thank you very much. Right so now we're going to move in to agenda item 13 which is the sale of IPv4 addresses so IPv4 address range over to you Zulka. Thank you chair and as you rightly said earlier that we are facing unprecedented financial challenges that mean that we need to look everything what we do. I think the office of the council are everything in that fashion and also not leaving any stone unturned poses containing this report are an example of what we're doing this is an IT asset which has become of exceptional value and is service to requirement and IPv4 rest you know the technical people but we know it simply is the way we access internet and there are billions of people across the the world are using it so the IPv4 addresses are in much more demand at the moment so people are buying them selling them these items etc so there is a good financial return we expect as a result of that process and I believe that we have 65,000 so IPv addresses which could be sold and if we are successful in selling those through brokerage arrangement this will generate between 1.6 to 2 million pounds and Lauren White who is the ID for information insurance and contract is here to deal with any technical issues but I'm told that the brokerage will probably be given and be given about six months or so to make sure that with these SSS sold idly we would like to sell them as quickly as possible and preferably if this is impossible so that we can do this as part of the saving process so without any further do I'll ask Lauren which is anything that she would like to add or thank you counselling so Lauren White is the service and director for information insurance and contracts just to say that this is a highly vulnerable asset that we are looking to sell we have six brokers interested in helping us sell for us the evaluation code is in two weeks two double decision systems things for that and it's to help us with that process as well and I'm very happy to see you super thank you very much okay fine and I think the reports for yourself explanatory I'm not sure if anyone really wants to ask a question on IPv for address range but I think it's really welcome to that we're doing it because it's actually quite an interesting reflection of modern life we've got to clean up our digital footprint both personally and institutionally and it's quite easy for things to just over the years pile up and we don't know what we own or issues relating to our digital footprint being out there and it's part of healthy sort of maintenance I guess so can we just agree the recommendations are set out on big page number 140 is our cabinet is recommended to agree delegate note 2.1 2.3 2.4 2.5 is that agreed please thank you now the final paper jump from to just note in the extent it exempt items item number four 14 I mean manage service to technically agency resource so thought we could this is you and then I'll invite you to say we currently have an existing agreement with metrics and thanks to Gordon since his arrival he's gone through a procurement process we've got competitive bays and the report here recommends moving the the you know tempi staff to adiko adiko is a well-known well utilized tempi staff agency provider I can I say that we are doing reasonably well in terms of reducing the need for tempi staff clearly as part of the management control and governance control that we put in place that declining but they're always going to be some need for a professional technique staff on the local needs to meet the peaks the drops of the workload etc but the the opposition from procurement perspective aid that the new supplier is going to be cheaper than the the incumbent and either port highlights the 230,000 pound is being saved as part of process and this is based on the numbers that we are utilizing amendments but based you know the discussion we are having and commitment to reduce the tempi staff is going to lead to even further reduction so it is proposed that we avoid the contract to the to the metrics and MST I R4 done a collaboration contract to adiko or a period of initial two years the option to extend it further is subject to the meeting the necessary KPI's performance targets and delivery targets Gordon is there anything else you wish to add thank you there's nothing particular I want to add I'll just pass to my colleague Yohane who's probably done a lot more as a hardware than I am when this I'm Yohane just learn ahead of the hand and not only have we looked at the financial benefits but also the social value benefits in particular how we're going to see education, employment or training those with special education needs backgrounds those with care flash areas into work and we'll be engaging with each other around the service level agreement looking at monitoring how they put your residence into sustainable employment so there are benefits for our participants as we move forward and thank you very much for that may I just ask on the back of that statement how much work and conversation has been had with the our new team who are working around mobilising it's hard to reach cohorts in young people with regards to access to jobs etc etc because I have it's not come across my radar as in my conversations with offices there because I've been really interested in understanding the thinking and the way in which that's going to be managed in part of the resources department and HR because it just strikes me there's a bit of a disconnect and I want assurances that there's greater working by the one council approach on this because there are outcomes and targets set out in the corporate plan vis-a-vis the number of young people that we engage and also there's issues relating to the experience of those with special educational needs and those with disabilities in the workplace I have really really robust assurances around that so you know I would welcome some commentary Gordon but I would suggest the outside of this meeting I meet with you and Darren Mackie to discuss with Thorpecah yeah thank you this three we have things to see us folks one is subjectum decision we can start we sit down with a deco once the contract is awarded on the corporate plan says it's found there are so much going on in the mobilising in response to skills need but also what are young people in different marginalised cohorts into the labour market but I just don't I don't have a sense that it's sufficiently connected so I think it warrants a full of conversation yes or did you want to add anything? 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I野wau sydd gweld sydd ymwng oxxodu cynif Shiva Bat, ac yr un yng接 – oesach ni y pifond sy'n gof silence, ac y c sydd gweld sydd, arall'u kaydodeth, bakingeddawn ddychellywydd已. mewn dev abla o liel yn d unnatural o fyddeu fwestриu lle adhan o plwn Elizaел rydych yn co sgwyr смог hallydd ac y wnes'r cómo erINTar llynau reynau cyfystem mewn gyrun ag mor ach 90'd ar y plwn, nid eisiauw ac ac yn yr un ar datign ag mor yw package ag, mae yna gweithio gallu dod, ac yn tertarff cairll yn y plwn daile ll draws. Is that anundersturd, let's go to the recommendation, set out on big page number 148, 2.1 for the reason set out on the report. It recommended that Cabinet agree to award a contract to a Deco UK limited for the fire of temporary workers from 14 of March, 2025 for a period of 2 years, for the option to extend a further 2 years and 2 years after the super sector deco achievement satisfactory performance. I don't really like the word satisfactory, as that sounds and suggests a bit suboptimal. I mean, I would expect excellent performance, and that we're paying them. Okay, fine. Can we change that word to excellent performance? Is that note of joy? Yes, yeah. Okay, so we agree. I would rather say on the team when I agreed targets, which ought to be stratic, basically. Okay, so I'm going to change this to subject to a deco, achieving excellent performance in line with a group targets, outcomes and targets. Did you get that joy? Okay, thank you very much. The cabinet members, is that agreed? Agreed. All right, thank you very much, if that's agreed. Now before we move on to concluding today's session, I wanted to just advise that on item 15, exclusion of press and public, we have got to just note some of the exempt appendices. So can I just reference them? And then I'm going to invite cabinet members to agree that these items are exempt. So I have not asked to note the resolution to exclude the press and public. However, as it is not necessary, as it was not necessary, the detail of the exempt information provided, we have not been needed to exclude the press and public. And we do, however, need to note them. So I just wanted to formally note item 16, which is exempt, the following exempt items, item 16, item 17, item 18, item 19, and item 20. Can I ask cabinet members that we note these exempt appendices, which have been discussed and the recommendations have been already agreed? Agreed. That noted and agreed. No, it didn't agree. Thank you very much. That's noted and agreed. Joy and colleagues, before we conclude, I just wanted to remind colleagues that we're going to be marking Remembrance Sunday this weekend, and we have the main Remembrance Sunday's at East Ham Senator in Central Park, and the service commences at 1055, and guests are encouraged to arrive at 1045 outside the town, oh no, in Central Park. I'm proud to that. We'll be walking as part of the Remembrance Sunday, from East Ham Town Hall. There are however other Remembrance Sunday events across the borough, so we have one at the All Saints West Ham Parish Church. We have one at St Luke's War Memorial in Canningtown. We have the service at St Mark's Memorial Factory Road in North Wardridge, alongside the one at the East Ham Senator, so I know that cabinet members and executive members have been assigned tickler services to go to, and I look forward to seeing those that will be attending with me at the East Ham Central Park Senator, but also for those members of public that are watching, please do attend. It's important, but we mark and remember all those that died for our freedoms and never forget, but also keep in the spirit of peace and unity. The call for peoples across the globe coming together in an age of conflict and war, and obviously today it's a big day in the United States of America, and I know what I would like to see as the outcome. So come on, come on, let's make sure she wins. Anyway, right, let's go, yes she can. On that note, thank you very much, colleagues, and I look forward to seeing you at the next formal meeting of cabinet next month.