Members are invited to disclose any interest in any of the items on the agenda at this point of the meeting. Members may still disclose an interest in an item at any time prior to the consideration of the matter.

There were no disclosures of interest.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Joint Committee held on 18 October 2018, and to authorise the Chairman to sign them.

The minutes of the meeting of the committee held on 18 October 2019 were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

It was reported that the overall oneSource shared outturn position shows an overspend of £0.793m. This was projected to be split between the three authorities as part of the year-end cost share calculation as follows; £0.433m Newham, Havering £0.239m and £0.121m Bexley.

The oneSource non-shared budgets were forecasting overspends of £1.871m for Newham and underspends of (£0.287m) for Havering and (£0.114m) for Bexley.

Management action was underway to attempt to reduce the forecasted overspends within Newham non-shared and oneSource shared by year-end.

The Joint Committee noted the report.

The report before Members provided the list of oneSource Performance Indicators for 19/20 included as part of the ‘Providing Quality Assurance and Performance Management of service delivery’ report that was agreed at Joint Committee in July 2019.

Members had requested that the indicators be reported to the Joint Committee and partner Councils on a quarterly basis.

The report presented to the Committee the Performance Indicators for the second quarter: July - September 2019.

The Joint Committee noted the report.

At its previous meeting in July Members had agreed the oneSource Improvement Action Plan.

The Improvement Action Plan specified that progress will be reported to the Joint Committee and partner Councils on a quarterly basis. The first quarter update was presented at the 12th July Joint Committee.

The report presented Members with an update on progress with the Improvement Plan for the third quarter: October – December 2019.

The Joint Committee noted the oneSource Improvement Plan Action Plan Q3 progress update attached at Appendix 1 to the report.

To consider whether the public should now be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the grounds that it is likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, if members of the public were present during these items there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972; and, if it is decided to exclude the public on these grounds, the Sub-Committee to resolve accordingly on the motion of the Chairman.

It was RESOLVED that the public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the grounds that it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, if members of the public were present during these items there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

The Executive Director provide his update as part of minute 50.

Verbal presentation from the Executive Director

The Executive Director provided the Joint Committee with a verbal update on progress with the delivery of the oneSource Strategic Plan, the details of which are exempt from public disclosure.