Agenda

(a)  To approve as an accurate record and the Chair to sign the minutes of the meeting of the Health, Adult Social Care and Social Inclusion PAC held on 22 July 2014.

(b)  To note the outstanding actions.

If a Councillor has a disclosable pecuniary interest in a particular item, whether or not it is entered in the Authority’s register of interests, or any other significant interest which they consider should be declared in the public interest, they should declare the existence and, unless it is a sensitive interest as defined in the Member Code of Conduct, the nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of that item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a disclosable pecuniary interest or other significant interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken.

Where Members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance and speak, then the Councillor with a disclosable pecuniary interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration. Councillors who have declared other significant interests should also withdraw from the meeting if they consider their continued participation in the matter would not be reasonable in the circumstances and may give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest.

Councillors are not obliged to withdraw from the meeting where a dispensation to that effect has been obtained from the Audit, Pensions and Standards Committee.

The Council’s administration  pledged to support food banks in its manifesto and specifically, the manifest said:

‘We will:

·         Support local food banks and take measures to sort out the causes of food poverty

·         Make the council sort out its ineffective processes that contribute to food poverty’

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Daphine Aikens, Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank Manager (www.hffb.org) will give oral evidence to inform the PAC of the current situation around food poverty in Hammersmith & Fulham.

(i)            Closure of Hammersmith Hospital Emergency Unit and Assurance Framework.

(ii)           Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Update on Clinical Strategy.

The Committee is asked to consider its work programme for the remainder of the municipal year.

Monday 17 November 2014

Tuesday 6 January 2015

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Monday 13 April 2015