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COMMUNITIES, HOUSING
AND PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE
Purpose of
Committee:
To monitor and oversee the delivery of
services provided by the Housing Cluster;
? services
provided by the Governance Cluster relating to Public
Protection;
? services
provided by the Operations Cluster (excluding services within the
remit of the Net Zero, Environment and Transport Committee and the
Education and Children’s Services Committee); and
? all
other Council housing functions (with the exception of capital
building programmes, albeit the Committee may receive and consider
reports providing updates on capital building programmes).
To promote the health and wellbeing of the
residents of Aberdeen and inclusive, equal communities.
To receive assurance on the statutory and
regulatory duties placed on the Council for public protection in
relation to:
? Adult
Support and Protection;
?
Protective Services;
? Civil
Contingency responsibilities for local resilience and prevention;
and
? Building
Control.
To undertake the Council’s duties in
relation to the Police and Fire and Rescue Services under the
Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012.
REMIT OF
COMMITTEE
1. Service Delivery
and Performance
1.1 The Committee will, for
the Housing Cluster, the Operations Cluster (subject to the
exclusions noted above) and the Council housing functions described
above:
1.1.1
oversee, and make decisions relating to, service delivery;
1.1.2
approve options to improve/transform service delivery;
1.1.3 scrutinise operational performance and
service standards in line with the Performance Management Framework
and consider recommendations for improvements where required
(including in relation to the Housing Revenue Account);
1.1.4 receive risk registers relative to its remit
and scrutinise to ensure assurance of the controls in place;
1.1.5
approve all policies and strategies relative to its remit; and
1.1.6 receive reports on inspections and peer
reviews in order to ensure best practice and note any actions
arising from those inspections and reviews.
1.2 In undertaking the aspects
at 1.1, the Committee will ensure that it is acting within the
budget set by Council and is supporting the delivery of the
Council’s agreed outcomes, commissioning intentions and
service standards.
1.3 The Committee may make
recommendations to the appropriate Committee(s) or Sub Committee(s)
on matters affecting its remit where the authority to approve sits
within the remit of another Committee or Sub-Committee.
1.4 In particular, the
Committee will:
1.4.1 consider and determine Asset Transfer
Requests made under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act
2015;
1.4.2 review and oversee the management of
council-managed open spaces, and oversee the development and
operation of a Community Environmental Improvement Fund;
1.4.3 monitor the work of leased community centres
and work with the management committees of these community centres
to enhance the important services and activities they provide with
their allocated budget; and
1.4.4 monitor the establishment and operation of
Citizens’ Assemblies, receiving a report on each Assembly
meeting (noting that any such Assembly related to Poverty or
Inequality comes under the responsibility of the Anti-Poverty and
Inequality Committee); and
PUBLIC PROTECTION
2. The Committee will
receive, amongst other reports relating to the Council’s
statutory and regulatory duties for public protection, reports:
2.1 providing assurance on the
Council’s duty to deliver an effective adult justice service
as determined by statutory inspections;
2.2 summarising findings from
statutory sampling and analysis work carried out by or on behalf of
the Environmental Health and Trading Standards services to ensure
compliance with required standards;
2.3 providing assurance in
respect of the Council’s performance in relation to Trading
Standards, Environmental Health (including the Public Mortuary) and
Scientific Services, including external inspection and audit
reports relating to these services;
2.4 to monitor compliance with
the Council’s duties relating to the provision of mortuary
facilities and their adequacy for responding to mass
fatalities;
2.5 on any work taken to
tackle underage sales in the city;
2.6 on major incidents and
fatal accident inquiries and any resulting impact and
responsibilities placed on the Council;
2.7 outlining activity by
Building Standards in relation to public safety and dangerous
buildings;
2.8 outlining activity by
Building Standards in relation to public safety and unauthorised
building work and the unauthorised occupation of buildings;
2.9 providing assurance from
the Adult Protection Committee on the impact and effectiveness of
adult support and protection improvement initiatives, including:
delivery of national initiatives and local implications;
? learning
from learning reviews;
? quality
assurance;
? training
and development;
? local
evidence-based initiatives;
?
effective working on adult protection; and
?
statistics relating to the Adult Protection Register (whilst noting
that it has no remit to challenge entries);
2.10 relating to the Chief Social Work
Officer’s Annual Report insofar as it relates to adult
services, for assurance purposes;
2.11 on the nature of institutional and
systemic discrimination in the City of Aberdeen, and the steps
required to eradicate such discrimination;
2.12 to monitor compliance with the
Council’s duties relating to resilience and local
emergencies;
2.13 concerning relevant local, regional
and national ‘lessons learnt’ reports and
recommendations in respect of civil contingency matters and monitor
their implementation;
2.14 to monitor the Council’s
preparedness in relation to the National CONTEST strategy and
associated plans relating to Counter Terrorism;
2.15 to contribute to and comment on the
Strategic Police Plan and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Strategic Plan when consulted by the relevant national authority,
in terms of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 and the
Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 respectively;
2.16 to respond to consultations by the
Chief Constable on the designation of local commanders and by the
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service on the designation of local senior
officers;
2.17 to be involved in the setting of
priorities and objectives, both for the policing of Aberdeen and
for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in the undertaking of its
functions in Aberdeen;
2.18 to specify policing measures the
Council wishes the local commander to include in a Local Police
Plan;
2.19 to approve a Local Police Plan
submitted by the local commander and approve a Local Fire and
Rescue Plan (including a revised plan) submitted by the Scottish
Fire and Rescue Service;
2.20 on police and fire and rescue service
provision and delivery in Aberdeen and provide feedback to the
local commander and the local senior officer;
2.21 to consider reports, statistical
information and other information about the policing of Aberdeen
and the undertaking of the Fire and Rescue function in Aberdeen
provided in response to the Council’s reasonable
requests;
2.22 to agree, with the local commander,
modifications to an approved Local Police Plan at any time;
2.23 to liaise with the local commander and
local senior officer with regard to the undertaking by them of the
community planning duties of the Chief Constable and the Scottish
Fire and Rescue Service; and
2.24 on the establishment and operation of
a Road Safety Fund, in order to agree and monitor the
implementation of measures funded (note: decisions on transport are
reserved to the Net Zero, Environment and Transport Committee).
EXECUTIVE LEAD:- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES
