The Leader of the Council and I have written to them to commend their efforts and offer our congratulations. The role of the Hotlines is to provide a place where people can report hate crimes.
Councillor Aislin Naylor
Morley Street is not yet fully open and therefore unable to fully function as a hate crime reporting centre. In 2022, additional work has been undertaken in specific disability and LGTBQ+ areas to support and encourage people to come forward and report hate crime.
Councillor Caroline Whitaker
This is in response to the recognized need to expand the offering to ensure an inclusive reporting service and to meet the needs of service users who would traditionally use the Morley Street Resource Center to report a hate crime report. This has resulted in the development of Together Bradford, a group made up of key partner organizations working on the disability agenda.
Councillor Aneela Ahmed
No Labor councilor wants any cuts, but after 12 years and £300m of cuts by the Tory government, balancing the budget is becoming increasingly difficult. We are experienced in listening to concerns when it comes to budget consultations, but I hope all councilors will join us in asking for more funding for valuable services in the borough.
Councillor Tariq Hussain
Skills House performance data is collected quarterly, so we are in the process of preparing the reports for the quarter ending December 2022.
Councillor Andrew Loy
Based on our understanding of recent results, we believe we continue to show good progress and we expect the number of participants through the partnership to increase to over 38,000. The PSPO is part of a wider plan to deal with the problems presented by very high visitor numbers and our staff will continue to do what they can to make the order effective.
Councillor Caroline Firth
Councillor Caroline Firth
Councillor Debbie Davies
A core English language service was established within Skills House and, despite the challenges of inclusion and collaboration during the pandemic, has advanced our understanding of the landscape of provision, developed collaboration through the District ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) consortium and provided additional resources through of the English for Everyone program. The consortium is made up of VCS partners, the county's three FE schools, housing associations, the DWP and council services and is a key driver for greater collaboration and coordination. Following on from and following feedback from the ESOL Consortium, a successful pilot project (via the Meridian Centre, Velvet Mills and Connecting Roma), and in line with the Skills House approach, the service is developing a model whereby each of the five sites has a mobile Single Point of Contact (SPoC). .
The overall community strategy will be renewed this year and will determine the strategic direction until 2028.
Councillor Aislin Naylor
Criminals are using increasingly inventive ways to hide cannabis plants – not just in rooms or unused buildings, but in the back of shops and even. West Yorkshire Police have cracked down on cannabis farms in the Bradford district through 'Programme Precision', which targets the issue of drug supply and production. Meanwhile, rehabilitation initiatives are in place for those caught in the cycle of drugs and addiction who want to escape this lifestyle.
The council works closely with the police and co-operates with them on disturbances and intelligence to protect the public.
Councillor Anna Watson
Councillor Caroline Firth
Councillor Caroline Firth
Councillor Mike Pollard
The project leaders will conduct a walk around the city, to which councilors and members of the city fund committee will be invited. This is a difficult question to answer, as pay-per-view revenue for each site is not broken down by time of day or ticket price. However, we can look at the revenue forecast for the end of this financial year compared to the year before the evening fee was first introduced and estimate the % additional revenue from these sites.
90,000 in total from pay and display and income from a criminal charge notice relating to an evening charge at some county car parks.
Councillor Mohammed Shafiq
In addition to the recruitment activity described above, the fostering service has been working closely with foster carers and the wider council to improve our offer to carers. They have worked more closely with the service to engage foster carers with the service. We have worked with the Principles Trust to provide holidays for carers and their children.
We have also partnered with Buckden House activity center to offer activity days and short stays for foster families and their children.
Councillor Liz Rowe
Councillor Debbie Davies
The funding also includes the professional fees required to complete the business case for access to the Bradford interchange station. The council entered into a design and build contract through the national SCAPE framework with Balfour Beatty for all four projects. This contract gives the Council construction certainty by securing the contractor's resources from the start of the project as well as increasing our visibility into the impacts of construction inflation on the scheme's costs.
It is supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and the assurance procedures put in place by the Government to monitor the responsible use of funds.
Councillor Julie Humphreys
Councillor Angela Tait
There are a small number of people who will move permanently into nursing homes after their stay in hospital and it can take time for the family to choose and. We are working with hospital colleagues to see if these people can have interim accommodation in an independent care home until these arrangements are made. There are no plans to block independent care home places because we don't have the need.
Councillor Mike Pollard
Councillor Tariq Hussain
Councillor Nazam Azam
The government announced in the Autumn Statement in November 2022 that existing expressions of interest would not be taken forward. This included an expression of interest submitted by the council for an investment zone in the district via the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. Announcements and briefings have confirmed that the investment zone policy will instead be refocused on a limited number of high-potential knowledge-intensive clusters designed to leverage the research strengths of universities focusing on "underdeveloped areas".
Officers continue to liaise and work with both the university sector and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Councillor Debbie Davies
Councillor Brendan Stubbs
How many schools in the district plan to cut teaching and classroom staff. What plans are in place to ensure that class sizes are not allowed to increase and what steps has the portfolio holder taken to ensure that children in the district do not suffer from a poor education for years to come. This is awarded in addition to the main formula's financing settlement, which awards between 0.5% and approx. 2.5% per student in 2023/24, depending on the individual characteristics of the school.
We currently do not have data on how many schools plan to reduce the number of employees.
Councillor Matt Edwards
The additional £2.3 billion represents an average increase of 3.4% in per-pupil funding for mainstream primary and secondary schools and academies. The schools that are retained will present their 2023/24 budgets and three-year budget forecasts to Council in May. , and as a result of the conversations with schools at that time we will have a better outcome. Based on the returns from the second quarter of the 2022/2023 budget monitoring, we predict that 6 (out of 76) retained schools will have a cumulative deficit on March 31, 2023.
Councillor Nazam Azam
Councillor Aneela Ahmed
Community champions are trained to co-promote flu and COVID-19 vaccines throughout the district, using evidence-based behavioral science principles. Council officers support this by using an evidence-based approach (using what seems to work best to encourage vaccination uptake), using local data to identify areas of good practice and groups in need for support, responding to community concerns through carefully crafted communications and escalating issues to affiliation.
Councillor Falak Ahmed
Councillor Tariq Hussain
Councillor Hassan Khan
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Councillor Mohammed Nazam
Councillor Fozia Shaheen
The ruling will undoubtedly have sent shockwaves through tech companies, which should expect to be held to account if they put children's safety second over commercial decisions. This must be a turning point and the Online Safety Bill must provide an opportunity to reinforce the avoidable abuse of our children. I couldn't agree more with Molly's father Ian and with the Labor frontbench who were pushing incredibly hard for tougher measures to protect children online.
Regulation had clearly not kept pace with the new media landscape and our daily use of digital technologies, this must be the beginning of a properly governed online world where most children, like the rest of us, now live large parts of their lives.
COUNCIL – TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2023
Agenda Item 12 – Notices of Motion (Standing Order 17) Amendments submitted by political groups
Amendment A
Amendment B
Amendment C
Amendment D
State support or a clear demonstration of the 'invest to save' case should be introduced until it is established that the Council's financial position is stabilised. That the private sector should be encouraged to lead capital investment schemes, as in the case of the district heating network in Bradford city centre, now being carried out by a private developer, which has reduced demand for the capital projects budget by over £12 million.
Amendment E
Amendment F
Amendment G
Amendment H
Despite the extremely low level of fraud, the Government has estimated that it will spend up to £180 million over the next decade to introduce ID at polling stations. In 2019, out of over 58 million votes cast, there were only 33 claims of personality at a polling station. Organizations including the Electoral Reform Society and the Good Law Project oppose the government's voter ID policy, and the ERS says it is an expensive distraction and that we should instead tackle "the enormous challenges that undermine our democracy, not set up paywalls around polling stations.”.
If the scheme goes ahead, direct officers to use all existing channels and means of communication to complement the publicity campaign by the Electoral Commission to make more voters aware of the need to present photo ID at polling stations in the May 2023 local elections and Further.
Amendment J
