A meeting of the North Devon Locality (County) Committee will be held on the above date in the Torridge Room at the Civic Centre, North Walk, Barnstaple on the rising of the North Devon HATOC to consider the following matters.

PLEASE NOTE REVISED START TIME

PHIL NORREY

Chief Executive

A G E N D A

PART I OPEN COMMITTEE

(During which members of the press and public may attend the meeting)

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Minutes of the meeting held on 3 December 2009, attached (Page 5).

3. Items Requiring Urgent Attention

Items which in the opinion of the Chairman should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency.

The Council has extended the membership of its Locality Committees for a trial period of 12 months, to help District Councils to be better briefed on both local and strategic issues and the further strengthening of relations between all organisations. Two (non-voting) places have been offered to District Councillors and one (non-voting) place to a representative of the Devon Association of Parish Councils.

Councillors Luggar and Tucker have been appointed by North Devon Council. Councillor Herbie Geen of North Molton has been appointed by the Devon Association of Parish Councils.

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WHAT CAN WE LEARN?

(During this part of the meeting there will be an opportunity for Members to hear from local communities or groups on local issues or consider any questions or feedback received from individual members of the public)

4. Feedback/Representations

(a) Introduction to Devon Association of Parish Councils and Issues in North Devon - Councillor Herbie Geen

(b) Adult and Community Services Update

Councillor Stuart Barker, Cabinet Member for Adult and Community Services (NB At the last meeting it was agreed to invite the Cabinet Member for ACS to this meeting to discuss future residential and domiciliary care provision in North Devon)

Keri Storey, Assistant Director of Health and Social Care, Northern Devon

(c) Work of the Barnstaple Poverty Action Group - Phil Davey, BPAG Manager

(d) Issues to raise at the Locality Committee from Members serving on other bodies as representatives of DCC (for example, Local Children s Trust)

HOW CAN WE HELP?

(During this part of the meeting Members will consider requests for financial support either from Members Locality Budgets or other sources of funding and respond to/advise local Councils and other organisations on the needs of this locality)

5. Locality Budget 2009/10 - Confirmation of Spending Proposals and Spend to Date

Report from Ian Hobbs, Community and Strategy Officer (CX/10/46 - text only | pdf CX/10/46), attached (Page 10).

[NB: Where presentations or background papers are available for any of the above items these will have been circulated, wherever possible, in advance of the meeting]

HOW ARE WE DOING?

(This part of the meeting will enable Members to be kept up-to-date with developments in the locality and monitor the provision of services, to help them identify issues that may need to be addressed or upon which representations may need to be made to influence local and national policy making; complementing the work of other relevant bodies such as the County Council s Scrutiny Committees)

6. Member Development Steering Group

Minutes of the meeting held on 13 January 2010, attached for information (Page 16).

7. Cabinet Forward Plan

At its last meeting, the Committee asked for the Cabinet s Forward Plan to be circulated with future agendas. The current Forward Plan is attached (Page 18) and available on the DCC website at: http://www.devon.gov.uk/forward_plan4.pdf

OTHER MATTERS

8. Future Meetings

(a) Dates

To note the following:

Next Meeting:

29 June 2010

Subsequent Meetings:

26 October 2010

22 March 2011

(all Tuesday mornings on the rising of the HATOC, at Barnstaple Civic Centre)

(b) Work Plan/Items Identified for Future Discussion

Inspiring Young People (Sustainable Community Strategy theme);

Pilots involving Parish and Town Councils on New Ways of Working as part of Local Government Reorganisation;

Implementation of The Way Ahead - Data and Trends Information;

Ilfracombe Narrowing the Gap Project;

The work of North Devon Voluntary Services.

PART II PRIVATE SESSION

(During which items may be taken in the absence of the press and public for specific reasons only)

Nil.

Members are reminded that Part II reports contain confidential information and should therefore be treated accordingly. They should not be disclosed or passed on to any other person(s).

Members are also reminded of the need to dispose of such reports carefully and are therefore urged to return them to the Committee Secretary at the conclusion of the meeting for disposal.

Membership

Devon County Council Councillors Haywood (Chairman), Cann, Chugg, Davis, Edgell, Fowler, Greenslade, Yabsley North Devon Council Councillors Luggar and Tucker Devon Association of Parish Councils Councillor Geen

Declaration of Interests

Members are reminded that they must declare any interest they may have in any item to be considered at this meeting, prior to any discussion taking place on that item.

Access to Information

Any person wishing to inspect any minutes, reports or lists of background papers relating to any item on this agenda should contact Peter Stiles on 01392 382289.

Internet

Agendas and minutes of this Committee together with any officers reports considered at the meeting are published on the County Council s Website at: http://www.devon-cc.gov.uk/dcc/committee/mingifs.html

Copies of this Agenda and/or Reports may be made available in other formats (e.g. large print, audio tape, Braille or other languages). Please contact the Information Centre on 01392 380101 for more information.