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Venue: Council Chamber, Barnsley Town Hall

Contact: William Ward  Council Governance Officer

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120.

Declarations of Interests

To receive any declarations of interest of a pecuniary or non-pecuniary nature from Members in respect of the items on this agenda.

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121.

Suspension of Standing Orders

To consider suspending Standing Order 13(5) in respect of the following presentation only (iten 3 refers) insofar as it relates to restrictions on Members speaking more than once

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122.

Report to Those Charged with Governance (ISA 260) 2020/21

The Council will receive a presentation and report from the External Auditor summarising the key issues identified during the audit of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March, 2021.

 

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDIT AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE HELD ON THE 17TH NOVEMBER, 2021 – to be supplied.

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123.

Audit and Governance Committee Minutes - 17th November, 2021 pdf icon PDF 233 KB

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Audited Statement of Accounts 2020/21 pdf icon PDF 80 KB

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDIT AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE HELD ON THE 17TH NOVEMBER, 2021 – to be supplied.

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125.

Final Annual Governance Statement 2020/21 pdf icon PDF 395 KB

To consider a report of the Head of Internal Audit, Anti-Fraud and Assurance seeking the approval of the Annual Governance Statement 2020/21.

 

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDIT AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE HELD ON THE 17TH NOVEMBER, 2021 – to be supplied.

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126.

Councillor P Markham

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127.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 348 KB

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the 30th September, 2021.

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128.

Carlton Masterplan Framework (Round 2 Adoption) (Cab.3.11.2021/9) pdf icon PDF 410 KB

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL:

 

(i)            the progress made in the development of the Masterplan Framework for Carlton (sites MU2/MU3) be noted; and

 

(ii)              that the final version of the Masterplan Framework be approved and adopted.

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129.

Proposed Revisions to the Scheme of Delegations Relating to Planning Decisions (Cab.3.11.2021/10) pdf icon PDF 259 KB

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the proposed delegations from Planning and Regulatory Board to specified officers/posts be amended as per the Terms of Reference of the Full Council, Regulatory Boards and Committees and Functions Delegated to Officers attached to the report.

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130.

Communications

To consider any communications to be submitted by the Mayor or the Chief Executive.

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131.

Appointment of an Additional Independent (Co-Opted Member) to the Police and Crime Panel pdf icon PDF 216 KB

The Council will consider a report of the Executive Director Core Services seeking endorsement of the Police and Crime Panel’s decision taken on 20th September 2021 to commence the process to appoint a third independent (co-opted) member.

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132.

Local Government Act 1972: Section 85: Absence from Meetings of the Authority: Councillor Felton

To seek approval, in accordance with Section 85 of the Local Government Act 1972, for the absence from meetings of the Authority on behalf of Councillor Felton on the grounds of ill health and pending the receipt of medical certification that she is fit to resume her duties.

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133.

Audit and Governance Committee - 15th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 253 KB

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134.

General Licensing Regulatory Board - 29th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 138 KB

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135.

General Licensing Regulatory Board - 27th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 24 KB

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136.

Planning Regulatory Board - 26th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 129 KB

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137.

Appeals, Awards and Standards - Various pdf icon PDF 237 KB

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138.

Health and Wellbeing Board - 7th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 160 KB

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139.

Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Sustainable Barnsley) Workstream - 12th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 157 KB

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140.

Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Growing Barnsley) Workstream - 2nd November, 2021 pdf icon PDF 147 KB

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141.

Central Area Council - 1st September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 137 KB

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142.

Dearne Area Council - 6th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 32 KB

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143.

North Area Council - 20th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 147 KB

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144.

North East Area Council - 23rd September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 144 KB

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145.

Penistone Area Council - 7th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 151 KB

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146.

South Area Council - 22nd October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 139 KB

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147.

Cabinet Meeting - 22nd September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 139 KB

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148.

Cabinet Meeting - 6th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 131 KB

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149.

Cabinet Meeting - 21st October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 134 KB

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150.

Cabinet Meeting - 3rd November, 2021 pdf icon PDF 225 KB

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151.

Questions relating to Joint Authority, Police and Crime Panel and Combined Authority Business

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152.

South Yorkshire Pensions Authority (Draft) - 9th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 161 KB

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153.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority - 13th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 315 KB

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154.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority (Draft) - 11th October, 2021 pdf icon PDF 323 KB

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155.

Police and Crime Panel (Draft) - 20th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 199 KB

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156.

Sheffield City Region Mayoral Combined Authority Board (Draft) - 20th September, 2021 pdf icon PDF 270 KB

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157.

Questions by Elected Members pdf icon PDF 557 KB

To consider questions received from Elected Members and which are asked pursuant to Standing Order No. 11.

 

(a)  Councillor Fielding

 

‘Given that this Council has declared a climate emergency and has both zero 40 and zero 45 ambitions, what is the Council’s current policy and attitude to permitting the extraction or recovery of coal under any circumstances in our borough?’

 

(b)  Councillor Hunt

 

‘At the Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting on 1st December, 2020 it was revelated that the Council does not have a Road Safety Strategy.  When will this be in place?’

 

(c)  Councillor Kitching

 

When compared to the established structure, is there currently a shortage of Social Workers in Barnsley?

 

In answering please can the Cabinet member provide staff numbers at the start of 2021, details of how many Social Workers have both left and joined the authority since then and the current number of staff analysed between permanent and agency employees.’

 

(d)  Councillor Hunt

 

In August 2020 Cabinet considered and approved the response to the Scrutiny Task and Finish Group’s findings and recommendations in relation to poverty. One of these recommendations was for additional investment to enable a locally delivered boroughwide outreach provision. The Cabinet report states “As part of our recovery arrangements we are reviewing the advice services available within each locality area as part of the alignment of Area Councils recovery work. As part of this we will review whether there is scope to recommission as a borough-wide provision.” Please can an update be provided as to how this review is progressing and whether a borough wide provision is to be recommissioned?’

 

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158.

Membership of Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Proposer – Councillor Kitching

 

Seconder – Councillor Hunt

 

That this Council:

 

a)    Notes section 9FA of the Local Government Act 2000 which clearly states that “members of the executive* cannot be members of a scrutiny committee”.

 

b)    Also notes point 25 of the Government’s 2019 document “Overview and scrutiny: Statutory guidance for councils and combined authorities” which recommends that “Authorities should ensure that, ’as a minimum, members holding less formal executive* positions … do not sit on scrutinising committees looking at portfolios to which their roles relate.’”

 

c)    Considers that the Authority should hold itself to a higher standard than the minimum, particularly in matters of scrutiny.

 

d)    Feels that the presence of cabinet support members on the Overview and Scrutiny committee creates a potential conflict of interest, and therefore undermines the necessarily robust, open and transparent process of scrutiny within the authority.

 

Therefore, this Council resolves that:

 

      i.        Cabinet Support Members should not take up seats on the Overview & Scrutiny committee.

 

    ii.        Amend standing order point 25 (4) to: “Neither Cabinet Members nor Cabinet Support Members will be members of the Scrutiny Committee.”

 

   iii.        These changes will be implemented immediately.

 

Note: As this Motion refers to an amendment to Standing Orders, once Moved and Seconded, it will stand adjourned without further discussion until the next ordinary meeting of the Council (Standing Order No 41 refers)

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159.

Better Busses for Barnsley

Proposer – Councillor Kitching

 

Seconder – Councillor Fielding

 

That this Council:

a) agrees with the former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Prof. Philip Alston, that access to affordable and reliable transport is fundamental to guaranteeing Barnsley residents the quality of life they deserve and that “abandoning people to the private market” by deregulating bus services “is incompatible with human rights requirements.”;

(b) notes that since 2014 the South Yorkshire bus network has been reduced by over 12 million kilometres, forcing many Barnsley residents to travel by car or – if car travel is not an option - cutting them off from education, employment, family and friends;

(c) understands that we are living through a cost-of-living crisis and that since buses were deregulated in 1986 bus fares have more than doubled in real terms, while motoring costs have decreased, and that transport costs are the largest expenditure of the average household budget;

(d) notes that we are living through a climate emergency and that in South Yorkshire one-third of our local emissions come from transport with 71% of journeys to work made by car while bus passenger journeys declined by over 20% between 2009/10 and 2018/19;

(e) acknowledges that the current bus driver shortage has revealed the long-term exploitation of our drivers - who are expected to work long shifts, with few facilities and little support, for wages that are decreasing in real-terms - and believes that public control would allow us to guarantee the conditions needed to deliver a world-class service;

(f) understands that the Government's impact assessment of the Bus Service Act (2017) highlighted that public control would better address six out of seven Local Transport Authority objectives compared to an enhanced partnership and was the only method likely to deliver a “significant increase in patronage.”;

(g) understands that the South Yorkshire Combined Authority intends to establish an Enhanced Partnership with bus operators, leaving final say over the network in their hands, despite the evidence that, according to the Centre for Cities, partnerships are a “fudge which stops mayors from delivering the quality bus networks their electorate rightly expect” while a former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty called for them to be “phased out.”;

(h) welcomes the recommendations of the “South Yorkshire Bus Review,” published in June 2020, that the “legal and financial investigation of franchising in South Yorkshire begin immediately” and that “a decision be made no later than 3 years after publication of this report.”;

(i) notes that a legal and financial investigation, as outlined in the Bus Services Act 2017 and National Bus Strategy has not yet been launched and requires the release of a statutory “notice of intent to prepare a franchising assessment.”;

Therefore this Council requests that the Administration:-

(i)            informs the South Yorkshire Combined Authority of its support for conducting a statutory assessment of franchising.

(ii)        requests a Combined Authority vote to release a “notice of intent to prepare a franchising assessment” within 6 months.

 

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Questions by Members of the Public

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161.

Mayor's Announcements

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