To debate any motions submitted in
accordance with Council Procedure Rules.
The following two Motions, one from
the Administration and one from the Labour Group, will be
debated:
Conservative
Administration Motion
This Council RESOLVES:
That the Administration is getting
Croydon moving.
From fixing
the finances and bringing back Westfield, to relaunching Purley
Pool and improving Council housing, this Council is listening to
residents and straining every sinew to correct the terrible
policies of the previous Administration that all but destroyed
Croydon.
Labour Group
Motion
Croydon Council welcomes the campaign
‘Treating Care Experienced as a Protected
Characteristic’. Despite the resilience of many
care-experienced people, society too often does not take their
needs into account and they often face discrimination
and stigma across housing, health, education, relationships,
employment and in the criminal justice system. The Public Sector
Equality Duty requires public bodies, such as councils, to
eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, and victimisation of
people with protected characteristics.
Croydon has a large population of
children and young people in care and care leavers. As corporate
parents, councillors have a collective responsibility for providing
the best possible care and safeguarding for the children who are
looked after by us as an authority. Councillors should be mentors
and champions of our looked after children and challenge the
negative attitudes and prejudice that exist in all aspects of
society.
Croydon Council therefore
RESOLVES:
1. When making any
decisions in relation to its policies or formulating its Business
Plan, that it recognises that care-experienced people are a
vulnerable group which faces discrimination.
2. That it has a duty
to put the needs of vulnerable people at the heart of
decision-making through co-production and collaboration.
3. That in the
delivery of the Public Sector Equality Duty the Council includes
the experience in the publication and review of Equality Objectives
and the annual publication of information relating to people who
share a Protected Characteristic in services and employment.
4. It will treat care
experience as if it were a Protected Characteristic and review its
Equality Impact Assessment process so that future services and
policies made an adopted by the Council are assessed to determine
the impact of changes on people with care experience, alongside
those who formally share a Protected Characteristic.
5. To formally call
upon all Croydon partner organisations to adopt corporate parenting
values / processes for children in care and care experienced people
and to treat care experience as a Protected Characteristic until
such time as it may be introduced by legislation.
6. To follow best
practice in reporting education, health, housing and employment outcomes of
care-experienced people in Croydon.
7. To proactively
seek out and listen to the voices of care-experienced people when
developing new policies based on their views.
Should the motion be approved, we
call on the Executive Mayor to ensure that councillors be updated
on progress on the above 7 points before the end of the civic year,
including on how services’ processes, ways of working and
culture have been embedded to recognise care-experience as a
protected characteristic.
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