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Notices of Motion

Where a motion concerns an executive function, nothing passed can be actioned until approved by the Executive or an officer with the relevant delegated power.

 

 

Motion 1 – Universal Basic Income

Motion 2 – Making Misogyny a Hate Crime

Motion 3 – Reducing School Exclusions

Motion 4 – Opposing the Government’s Planning Reforms

Motion 5 – Motion in support of Islington Council’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Minutes:

Motion 1: Universal Basic Income

 

The Mayor advised that a proposed amendment had been circulated in the second despatch of papers.

 

Councillor Russell moved the motion. Councillor Watts moved the amendment. Councillor Russell exercised her right of reply.

 

The amendment was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

The motion as amended was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED.

 

 i.        To write to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling for a fully evaluated and fully-funded trial of basic income in our borough, as a result of the effects of the Covid pandemic

ii.        To lobby Government for research and possible investment into a programme of Universal Basic Services for local people, including housing, transport, childcare and adult social care;

iii.        To continue rolling out the Council’s joint campaign with the TUC encouraging local people to join a union, as to increase their bargaining power at work and secure better pay and conditions;

iv.        To call for increased research and analysis of the effects of UBI on wages, union membership and bargaining power, and protected characteristics;

v.        To work with other local authorities to help test UBI in London;

vi.        To lobby Central Government to maintain the £20 per week uplift in Universal Credit that many local people rely on.

 

 

 

Motion 2: Making misogyny a hate crime

 

Councillor Clarke-Perry moved the motion. Councillor Williamson seconded. Councillors Russell and Woodbyrne contributed to the debate.

 

The motion was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED:

 

 i.        To make a submission to the Law Commission’s Consultation at the earliest opportunity in favour of strengthening hate crime legislation and making misogyny a hate crime;

ii.        To call on the Government to listen to the lived experience of women and girls across our country and to urgently act on any recommendations the commission makes to strengthen the law on hate crime, and to reform legislation around harassment to recognise as hate crime that which targets women and girls in their community;

iii.        To call on the Government to provide the resource and funding for police forces across the UK to effectively tackle harassment, misogyny and domestic abuse;

iv.        To call on the police force in Islington to record harassment of women as a hate crime, following successful trials in Nottingham and elsewhere.



 

Motion 3: Reducing School Exclusions

 

Councillor Comer-Schwartz moved the motion. Councillor Cutler seconded. Councillors Russell and Hull contributed to the debate.

 

The motions was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED:

 

     i.        To campaign for education policy development in support of:

o   More funding for schools, to adequately address the needs of all children;

o   The promotion of approaches to behaviour management that are trauma informed, humane and respect the rights of the child;

o   The overhaul of official exclusion practice and outlaw unofficial practice (known as Off Rolling);

o   Exclusion being used only as a very last resort, if all else fails;
 

    ii.        To work with local schools on approaches to behaviour management that are trauma informed, humane and respect the rights of the child;

   iii.        To work with schools, voluntary sector, health practitioners and police to provide long-term diversionary pathways away from exclusions;
 

   iv.        To continue the work initiated by the Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee to implement recommendations to help our schools to prevent exclusions and support young people at risk of exclusion;

    v.        To lobby for national policy changes that would support children to remain in mainstream education.

 

 

Motion 4: Opposing the Government’s planning reforms

 

Councillor Klute moved the motion. Councillor Khondoker seconded. Councillors Russell and Graham contributed to the debate. Councillor Klute exercised his right of reply.

 

The motions was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED:

 

      i.        Write to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government expressing our significant and valid objections to the Government’s proposals as set out in the Council’s comprehensive formal response to the proposals, and seeking a meeting to discuss this as a matter of urgency.

       ii.            Work with local developers to maintain the current supply of genuinely affordable and Council Rent homes built in Islington

     iii.            Continue building much needed, Council-led genuinely affordable and council homes for local people.

 

 

Motion 5: Motion in support of Islington’s Council’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

 

The Mayor advised that a proposed amendment had been circulated in the second despatch of papers.

 

Councillor Russell moved the motion. Councillor Champion moved the amendment.

 

The amendment was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

The motion as amended was put to the vote and CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED:

 

  1. To seek opportunities to make streets as accessible as possible with well-maintained pavements, dropped kerbs and tactile paving in the right places;

  2. To seek funding from TfL for main road mitigation measures like new pedestrian crossings, pavement widening, greening, new seating and protected cycle routes;

  3. To work with local people to amend and improve the People-Friendly Streets measures where appropriate;

  4. To continue to create people friendly streets across the borough.

 

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