Agenda item - Member Involvement

To consider the following matters raised by Members:

(a)          Petitions: To receive any petitions referred from Full Council or submitted directly to the Committee;

(b)          Written Questions: To consider any written questions;

(c)          Letters: To consider any letters;

(d)          Notices of Motion: to consider any Notices of Motion referred from Full Council or submitted directly to the Committee.

Ending Victim Blaming: Pledge to Consider the Notice of Motion put by Councillor Daniel at the meeting of Full Council held on 31 January 2019 (copy attached)

60a     Petitions

60.1    There were none.

60b     Written Questions

60.2    There were none.

60c     Letters

60.3    There were none.

60d     Notices of Motion

            End Victim Blaming: Pledge

60.1    The Committee considered the Notice of Motion put by Councillor Daniel at the meeting of Full Council held on 31 January 2019.

60.2    The Chair, Councillor Daniel, welcomed the positive response which the Notice had received when placed before Full Council and stressed the need to highlight this issue. In forwarding it to this Committee of which she was Chair she was requesting Member support to bring forward a report on this subject to a future meeting of the Committee.

60.3    Councillor Cattell, stated that she fully supported this; as a volunteer on a domestic abuse helpline she had been contacted by numerous women who had suffered from abuse and had been left traumatised and required specialist training and support. She hoped that the motion would be supported unanimously.

60.4    RESOLVED – (1) That theNotice of Motion be noted and received; and

            (2) That the Committee receive a report to a future meeting detailing how the Victim Focus pledge can be fulfilled to challenge and reduce victim blaming of people who have experienced trauma, abuse or crime in our organisation.