Agenda

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·                Quarter 4 Performance Monitoring Report

·                Proposed Changes to Overview and Scrutiny Arrangements during the period July 2022 to March 2023 and other (minor) changes to the Constitution

·                Children in Care and Care Leavers Strategy

·                Council Tax Discounts and Premiums Policy

·                Non Domestic rating Discretionary Rate Reliefs and Hardship Policies.

A review of the work of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees in 2021/22 and looking ahead to the work that will be undertaken in 2022/23.

There are two Notices of Motion, as follows:

1) Implementing Climate Change and Environmental Action Plans

The motion is as follows:

“This Council resolves to establish a politically proportionate Scrutiny Committee to monitor its progress on developing and implementing climate and environmental action plans across the whole of the Council’s business. The remit of this committee is to ensure that there is oversight of the overall achievement of the collective ambition for change. It will remain the remit of individual scrutiny areas to ensure this work is embedded in the action planning in each of the Council’s areas of work.”

Proposed by County Councillor Andy Brown

Seconded by County Councillor Stuart Parsons.

2) Nature and Climate Change

The motion is as follows:

The Liberal Democrat & Liberal Group congratulates the previous council in creating the foundations of a net zero carbon plan and welcomes the development of the enhanced net zero carbon neutral plan for the new authority. The Group alsocelebrates and supports the recent NYCC cabinet decision to declare a climate change emergency.

The group reminds the council that under the leadership of Alok Sharma MP, the UK still holds the COP Presidency until later this year with a mandate of working with governments and organisations to make sure they deliver on the Glasgow Climate Pact, turning momentum into action

The Group asks council to note and act on the subsequent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC (2022) report which stated;

• Climate resilient development is enabled when governments, civil society and the private sector make inclusive development choices that prioritise risk reduction, equity and justice, and when decision-making processes, finance and actions are integrated across governance levels, sectors and timeframes (very high confidence). Climate resilient development is facilitated by international cooperation and by governments at all levels working with communities, civil society, educational bodies, scientific and other institutions, media, investors and businesses; and by developing partnerships with traditionally marginalised groups, including women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, local communities and ethnic minorities (high confidence). These partnerships are most effective when supported by enabling political leadership, institutions, resources, including finance, as well as climate services, information and decision support tools (high confidence).
• Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems is fundamental to climate resilient development, in light of the threat’s climate change poses to them and their roles in adaptation and mitigation (very high confidence).
• Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all’; This isn’t an opinion; it is a statement of the evidence with very high confidence

The Group ask the Council to also note and as a priority act on:

• The recent joint statement on July 8th 2022 from the government office of science and the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance recognise that ‘addressing the twin challenges of carbon emissions and biodiversity loss requires political will and leadership.’
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