Agenda item - Declarations of substitutes and interests and exclusions

The Chair of the Board will formally ask if anyone is attending to represent another member, and if anyone has a personal and/or financial interest in anything being discussed at the meeting.  The Board will then consider whether any of the discussions to be held need to be in private.

19(a)  Apologies

19.1    Apologies were received from Councillor Nield (Deputy Chair) and Chris Robson, Independent Chair of the Brighton and Hove Safeguarding Children Board.

19(b)  Declarations of Substitutes, Interests and Exclusions

19.2    Councillor Druitt was in attendance in substitution for Councillor Nield.

19(c)  Exclusion of Press and Public

19.3    In accordance with Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (“the Act”), the Health and Wellbeing Board considered whether the public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item of business on the grounds that it is likely in view of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during it, there would be disclosure to them of confidential information as defined in Section 100A (3) of the Act.

19.4    RESOLVED - That the public be not excluded during consideration of any item of business set out on the agenda.