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Decision Maker: Keighley Area Committee
Made at meeting: 14/10/2021 - Keighley Area Committee
Decision published: 19/10/2021
Effective from: 14/10/2021
Decision:
Resolved –
1. That the evidence based approach to determining Road Safety priorities continues to be supported.
2. That the Strategic Director, Place, be requested to include in the next annual report to the Committee, details of schools not engaging in the Road Safety Education and Training initiatives and plans to attract those schools which are historically disengaged.
3. That the Strategic Director, Place, be requested to provide the most current data, on an individual ward basis, for road casualties in the Keighley constituency.
ACTION: Strategic Director Place
Decision Maker: Keighley Area Committee
Made at meeting: 14/10/2021 - Keighley Area Committee
Decision published: 19/10/2021
Effective from: 14/10/2021
Decision:
Resolved –
That the Strategic Director, Place, be requested to provide a written response to the four public questions submitted.
ACTION: Strategic Director Place
Decision Maker: Keighley Area Committee
Made at meeting: 14/10/2021 - Keighley Area Committee
Decision published: 19/10/2021
Effective from: 14/10/2021
Decision:
Resolved –
That the Strategic Director, Place, be requested to provide a report, to the meeting scheduled for 25 November 2021, on the options available to the Committee with regard to the left turn only signs in an endeavour to improve the junction along North Street, Keighley.
ACTION: Strategic Director Place
Decision Maker: Council
Made at meeting: 12/10/2021 - Council
Decision published: 15/10/2021
Effective from: 12/10/2021
Decision:
Resolved – That the following notices of motion (with amendments) be approved:
12.1 – West Yorkshire Pension Fund – Independent Divestment Review
Moved by: Councillor Angela Tait
Seconded by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
Council notes:
Council further notes:
Council recognises that:
Council resolves to recommend that the WYPF:
a) Acknowledge, respond and act on the concerns, both financial and ethical, of its stakeholders over its holdings in fossil fuel energy companies.
b) Take positive steps to wind-down its holdings in fossil fuel energy assets in a manner and timescale that is consistent with:
a. its primary obligation and not risking material financial detriment to the Fund.
b. its commitment to achieving a net-zero portfolio by 2050 or sooner.
c) Implement its commitment to a net-zero portfolio, using its leverage as an investor, both individually and collectively, with the aim of achieving real economy emissions reductions.
d) Make a further commitment to significant progress towards net-zero by 2030, in recognition of the LCR Climate Coalition goals.
e) Report annually on progress of b), c) and d) above
12.2 – Climate Emergency
Moved by: Councillor Sarah Ferriby
Seconded by: Councillor Caroline Firth
Council notes:
a) the Sixth Assessment Report published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in August 2021, which states that “Global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C will be exceeded during the 21st century unless deep reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades”;
b) the critical importance of the UN COP26 climate summit – November 2021 and related national policy and spending including the UK Net Zero Strategy;
c) the progress made since 2010 in reducing the Council’s own greenhouse gas emissions, down from 88,302 tonnes CO2e in 2009/10 to 47,446 tonnes CO2e in 2018/19 (the most recent municipal year that includes data for the district’s schools);
d) our declaration of a ‘climate emergency’ in January 2019 and October 2019 endorsement of WY Climate Pledge: to reach net-zero carbon by 2038 and making ‘significant progress’ by 2030;
e) Sustainability, climate action and resilience are priorities in the adopted Council Plan 2021-25 and District Plan, their implementation and performance management. This takes forward the Sustainable Development Action Plan (2020-2021; and its roll-over into 2021-22 due to Covid-19);
f) The adopted and shared Covid-19 Economic Recovery Plan sets out significant measures to support sustainable development and this will be taken forward through a Clean Growth strategy for Bradford District;
g) We are investing £25m this year and £1m in revenue specifically on climate emergency and related issues but in addition we recognise that our commitments to sustainability in general have resulted in many policy changes and projects that are being embedded across the whole organisation. Schemes include but are not limited to: Fleet replacement, an alternative fuel centre at Bowling Back Lane, active travel (including walking, cycling, safer streets – through lockdown and as part of WY shared plans eg City Connect), 50 grassroots climate action projects funded across all give constituencies, support to Bradford Community Energy to back local renewable energy and energy efficiency, ongoing work around recycling, reducing food waste, reducing our single-use plastics, being the planning authority and a partner in major ‘green economy’ developments such as Esholt, the ongoing rolling programme of retrofitting of our buildings, development of the housing strategy partnership implementation, replacement of our central food processing unit with a new facility at Mitre Court, partnering with anchor institutions on the Sustainable Development Partnership Board, flagship investments such as Darley Street Market, Keighley and Shipley Towns Fund capital initiatives to improve active travel and the public realm, district heat and solar schemes, smart street lighting, blue/green infrastructure and nature-based solutions (Harden Moor, Ilkley Moor, Aire and Worth flood risk management, Horton Park, etc.).
Council further notes that:
h) In June 2019, the UK Government passed legislation committing it to achieving ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is significantly more challenging than government’s previous target to reduce net emissions by 80% compared with 1990 levels by 2050. In its December 2020 report, Achieving Net Zero, the National Audit Office NAO highlighted that local authorities will have a critical part to play. Bradford Council stands as the UK’s leading clean growth city district, committed to sustainable development and climate action.
i) The NAO highlight that there are serious weaknesses in central government’s approach to working with local authorities on decarbonisation and climate action, stemming from a lack of clarity over local authorities’ overall roles, piecemeal funding, and diffuse accountabilities. This remains a non-statutory area of work for local government. This hampers local authorities’ ability to plan effectively for the long-term, build skills and capacity, and prioritise effort. It creates significant risks to value for money as spending is likely to increase quickly. Bradford Council and local partners stand ready to work with Government departments to address these challenges and bring forward commercial investment, public-private partnerships and community action to decarbonise, enhance resilience and support a just transition.
j) Climate Action and resilience are regional challenges and we will work with our partners across West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North to effectively deliver positive, lasting change.
k) Bradford Council supports the Race to Zero ambition and will work with businesses and other partners to prepare for and accelerate progress on decarbonisation and sustainable development from COP26 through to 2030.
Council therefore resolves to:
1) Continue working towards the outcomes and priorities in our Council Plan, District Plan, other key strategies and critically develop a robust, investment focussed clean growth strategy for Bradford District.
2) Work with the Elected Mayor for West Yorkshire, WYCA, the other four local authorities and key partners to work at pace and scale on eliminating fossil fuel use, decarbonisation at pace and scale (across buildings, power, industry, land use and land use change and transport) and environmental resilience and nature recovery.
3) Call on Government, private sector investors and developers to co-invest with us as the UK’s leading clean growth city district; extending beyond net zero target setting and towards robust plans for investment and delivery that unlocks levelling up and secures social, economic, environmental and health outcomes for the whole population of Bradford District.
4) That the Leader of Council writes to our Bradford District MPs, to Alok Sharma MP (President of COP26) and to the Prime Minister, calling for the Government to a) co-invest in Bradford District as the UK’s leading clean growth city district; b) directly support the Race to Zero.
12.3 – Local Electricity Bill
Moved by: Councillor Alun Griffiths
Seconded by: Councillor Rachel Sunderland
That City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
(i) Acknowledges the efforts that this Council has made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote renewable energy;
(ii) Further recognises:
(iii) Notes that the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, as a result of its 2021 Technological Innovations and Climate Change inquiry, recommended that a Right to Local Supply for local energy suppliers be established to address this;
(iv) Accordingly resolves to support the Local Electricity Bill, currently supported by a cross-party group of 264 MPs and which, if made law, would establish a Right to Local Supply which would promote local renewable electricity supply by making the setup and running costs of selling renewable electricity to local customers proportionate to the size of the supply company; and
(v) Further resolves to:
· inform the local media of this decision,
· write to local MPs, asking them to support the Bill, and
12.4 – Fossil Fuels
Moved by: Councillor Angela Tait
Seconded by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
Council notes:
Council further notes:
Council recognises that:
Council resolves to recommend that the WYPF:
f) Acknowledge, respond and act on the concerns, both financial and ethical, of its stakeholders over its holdings in fossil fuel energy companies.
g) Take positive steps to wind-down its holdings in fossil fuel energy assets in a manner and timescale that is consistent with:
a. its primary obligation and not risking material financial detriment to the Fund.
b. its commitment to achieving a net-zero portfolio by 2050 or sooner.
h) Implement its commitment to a net-zero portfolio, using its leverage as an investor, both individually and collectively, with the aim of achieving real economy emissions reductions.
i) Make a further commitment to significant progress towards net-zero by 2030, in recognition of the LCR Climate Coalition goals.
j) Report annually on progress of b), c) and d) above
12.5 – Protecting Women and Girls from Sexual Assault
Moved by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
Seconded by: Councillor Abdul Jabar
Council notes:
Council welcomes the Mayor of West Yorkshire’s statement that "more needs to be done to improve the safety of women and girls" and that this work is one of her key pledges.
Council notes that in August this year Tracy Brabin, West Yorkshire’s Mayor launched a call for evidence on the safety of women and girls. The findings of this review will feed into her forthcoming Police and Crime Plan.
Council notes that the Leader instructed Council officers, as a result of the Mayor’s call for evidence, to produce a report to submit to this review
Council notes that a number of sessions were held to garner views on the safety of women and girls and these views will be fed through to the West Yorkshire Mayor and the Community Safety Partnership here in Bradford.
Council therefore resolves to:
12.6 – Implementing the CSE Safeguarding Review
Moved by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
Seconded by: Councillor Sue Duffy
Council notes the publication of the Thematic Child Sexual Exploitation Child Practice Safeguarding Review commissioned by the Chair of the former Bradford Safeguarding Children Board prior to the establishment of the current Bradford Partnership and carried out by Clare Hyde of the Foundation for Families.
Council thanks everyone who participated in the review.
Council thanks the survivors of child sexual exploitation who contributed to the review often reliving difficult and traumatic experiences.
Council welcomes and notes the actions being taken to embed the learning from the review into practice.
Council recognises the important task before it to ensure that all are children are safe. That there has been considerable work in the district in relation to CSE there are "still lessons that need to be learned and the responses to victims of this complex crime is not yet good enough in all cases".
Council accepts the recommendations of the review and is committed to carrying them out in full. Council welcomes the creation of an All-Party Council Group within the Children’s Services Overview & Scrutiny Committee where individual Councillors and organisations can come together to ensure that the recommendations of the review are implemented.
12.7 – Children’s Services
Moved by: Councillor Kyle Green
Seconded by: Councillor Russell Brown
Council notes that:
There have been negative findings via a number of external inspections of various parts of Children’s Services, spanning over many years’ now.
The Council and partner agencies in our District have made mistakes in
the past.
It is regrettably the case that a number of key recommendations made
by inspectors have been accepted, but not routinely implemented,
leaving potential for further mistakes.
It is also regrettable that the pace of implementing improvements
relating to recruitment and retention etc. are less than ideal, again
undermining the performance of Children’s Services
Council resolves:
To welcome the appointment of a Commissioner to examine how best
to the provide the wide range of services that Bradford Council
provides to local children.
To ensure that the Council promptly implements any recommendations
brought forward by the Commissioner and provides all support required.
12.8 – COP26: A moment for action
Moved by: Councillor Sarah Ferriby
Seconded by: Councillor Caroline Firth
Council notes that:
Council resolves:
12.9 – Fireworks
Moved by: Councillor Abdul Jabar
Seconded by: Councillor Nazam Azam
Council notes that:
Council resolves:
Ask National Government to change the law and:
Local Government to:
12.10 – Councillors putting Children and Young People at the heart of
everything we do
Moved by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
Seconded by: Councillor Sue Duffy
Bradford Council is committed to ensuring that all the District’s children
have the best possible start in life.
Caring for and safeguarding the District’s vulnerable children is a critically important part of the Council’s work and one of its greatest responsibilities. We share Ofsted’s and the DfE’s concern that the Council’s Children’s services need to improve faster and that the Council needs to do better for our Looked After Children in particular.
We welcome the Government Commissioner and the expertise he brings from Leeds Children’s Services. He will be here for three months and write a report with recommendations to Government on our progress. We will use the opportunity to learn from his experience and implement any improvements he identifies.
As Bradford Councillors and good parents we need to have high aspirations for all of our children. We have a duty to work proactively with our statutory partners in Health and Police as well as other agencies to ensure children and young people in our care have opportunities to flourish and thrive in all aspects of their lives.
As Councillors we have a legislative responsibility under:
Putting children at the heart of all we do means that their voice will shape the mindset and culture of every part of our Council and how we carry out all of our services and functions. To achieve this as Councillors we all must:
As an organisation these principles apply to all aspects of the Council’s work including education, social care, transport, housing, libraries, leisure and recreation and council tax.
This Council therefore resolves to:
12.11 – Bradford district calls on the Government to properly fund adult social care
Moved by: Councillor Sarah Ferriby
Seconded by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
This Council thanks and recognises the professionalism and dedication of the District’s social care workforce and their invaluable work in supporting and caring for some of our most vulnerable residents, particularly during the pandemic. We also recognise and thank those unpaid carers, family members and friends of vulnerable people, who work tirelessly to care for those they love without financial reward.
The Council notes the Government’s announcement on Adult Social Care last month and having looked at that announcement now in detail can only conclude that after 6 years of waiting, the Government has no plan for how to fund Adult Social Care in this country. There is no plan.
The Council notes that:
Council resolves to:
The Council calls on Government to:
12.12 – Armed Forces Covenant – Employer Recognition Scheme
Moved by: Councillor Joanne Dodds
Seconded by: Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe
We deeply value the work of our Armed Forces and, following the easing of restrictions, we are pleased that Bradford Council is preparing for a return to the usual, more significant public display of our gratitude and respect (Covid-19 restrictions permitting). Our Lord Mayor will lead in-person remembrance events for people who have contributed from all over the Commonwealth, of all faiths and none. This will include the Bradford Remembrance Sunday Civic service and parade, as well as supporting inclusive acts of remembrance in towns and villages throughout our district, as has always been our practice in the past.
The 30th of January 2022 marks 10 years since the Council and partners made their formal commitment and pledges of support to the local Armed Forces Community by signing the Community Covenant (now known as the Armed Forces Covenant).
The Council believes that in order to mark this anniversary it should re-state its commitment to the Covenant and the celebration of the work of our Armed Forces.
Since 2012 the Council has offered support over and above that required by the Covenant. We note that the Government’s Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) acknowledges employers who have provided exceptional support to the Armed Forces Community both within their organisation and within their local community. The Scheme encompasses Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. Bradford Council was awarded the Silver Defence Employer Scheme in November 2018.
Gold Award-level employers proactively advocate and support Defence, communicating their commitment both internally to employees and externally to the wider community, through established policies and examples of support. There are only 493 organisations and public bodies who have achieved their Gold Award since the ERS awards were introduced in 2015. Of these 20 are from the Yorkshire and Humber area.
In order to demonstrate our on-going commitment to supporting our local Armed Forces Community the Council agrees that it should pursue ERS Gold Award status.
Council resolves to:
Decision Maker: Council
Made at meeting: 12/10/2021 - Council
Decision published: 15/10/2021
Effective from: 12/10/2021
Decision:
Governance and Audit Committee (Council amendment):
Resolved – That Council notes the extensive work undertaken by Windhill Community Centre in the extremely difficult circumstances of Covid restrictions, which resulted in a lower level of representations than would otherwise be the case. Members therefore support a further review being undertaken sometime in the future (no sooner than 12 months from now) if there are no Covid restrictions in place. Public meetings would also form part of the review. This course of action is supported by ward councillors
ACTION: City Solicitor
Corporate Overview and Scrutiny:
Resolved – That the Hate Crime Scrutiny Review be endorsed by Council.
Decision Maker: Council
Made at meeting: 12/10/2021 - Council
Decision published: 15/10/2021
Effective from: 12/10/2021
Decision:
Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee:
Resolved – That the following co-opted members be appointed to the Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the 2021/22 Municipal Year
Voting co-opted members:
· Fauzia Raza – Parent Governor Representative (from 22 September 2021)
· Joyce Simpson – Church Representative (from 22 September 2021)
Non-voting co-opted members:
· Dr Samina Karim – Children’s Services Representative
· Tom Bright – Teachers Secondary School Representative.
Regeneration and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee:
Resolved – That the following non-voting co-opted member be appointed to the Regeneration and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the 2021/22 Municipal Year:
· Julia Pearson – Bradford Environmental Forum.
Health and Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee:
Resolved – That the following non-voting co-opted members be appointed to the Health and Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the 2021/22 Municipal Year:
· Susan Crowe – Bradford District Assembly Health and Wellbeing Forum
· Trevor Ramsay – i2i Patient Involvement Network, Bradford District NHS Foundation Care Trust
· Helen Rushworth – Healthwatch Bradford and District.
Bradford East Area Committee:
Resolved – Councillor Sajawal (Bradford Independent) replaces Councillor Choudhry (Labour) on the Bradford East Area Committee for the remainder of the 2021/22 municipal year from 19 November 2021.
Keighley Area Committee:
Resolved – Councillor Gibbons (Independent) replaces Councillor Hawkesworth (Ilkley Independent) on the Keighley Area Committee for the remainder of the 2021/22 municipal year from 19 November 2021.
Shipley Area Committee:
Resolved – Councillor Jenkins (Independent Socialist) replaces Councillor Davies (Conservative) on the Shipley Area Committee for the remainder of the 2021/22 municipal year from 19 November 2021.
ACTION: City Solicitor
Decision Maker: Council
Made at meeting: 12/10/2021 - Council
Decision published: 15/10/2021
Effective from: 12/10/2021
Decision:
Combating speeding traffic on Lee Lane / Moorfield Avenue (Bingley Rural Ward)
Resolved – That the petition be referred to Shipley Area Committee.
ACTION: City Solicitor