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  • 01

    Apologies

  • 02

    Declarations by Members of Statutory Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, Compulsory Registerable Non-Pecuniary Interests and Voluntary Registerable Non-Pecuniary Interests in Matters on this Agenda

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    Webcasting of the Meeting

     

    The Chair to announce the following: “I would like to remind everyone that this meeting is being broadcast live by the Council and is recorded and later made available on the website.  If you are addressing the meeting, you are deemed to be consenting to having your contributions recorded and broadcast.”

     

    Any Other Announcements

     

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    Deputations

    Requests to address the Cabinet on a matter on its agenda must be made in writing to the Democratic Services Officer named on the front of this agenda by 5pm two working days before the meeting.

     

  • 05

    Notification of Any Items of Business that the Chair Decides to Take as Urgent

  • 06

    Minutes

    To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 10th December 2025.

  • 07

    Matters Referred from a Council Scrutiny Committee

    At this point in the meeting items referred from a Council Scrutiny Committee requiring urgent consideration will be taken.

     

  • 08

    Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Budget and Rent Review 2026/27 (CS/2026/01)

    Report of the Cabinet Member for Better Homes

     

    With nearly 23,000 tenants and 10,000 leaseholders, Camden is the fifth largest local authority social landlord in London and the eleventh largest in England. In our role as landlord we have a crucial role in resident’s lives by providing high quality homes for tenants, ensuring our estates support people’s health, and supporting our communities. The Housing and Repairs Transformation programme and the Housing Investment Strategy are critical to fulfilling this role.

     

    The national funding system for social housing is broken. Rent policy decisions made by central government over time have resulted in £201m of lost rental income since 2016. At the same time cost pressures in the form of inflation, interest, fire & building safety, damp & mould and disrepair have mounted up. Together the lost rental income and cost pressures have created a severe financial challenge.

     

    This report sets out how the Council intends to deliver on its strategic objectives for housing in the increasingly challenging financial climate that the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) is operating in. It sets out a balanced budget and proposed levels of rent and service charges for the financial year 2026/27.

     

    The report is coming to the Cabinet because the Council is required to set a balanced HRA budget for each year and set levels of rent and charges for the HRA.

     

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  • 09

    Report of Camden's 2025 Corporate Peer Challenge (CS/2026/04)

    Report of the Leader of the Council

     

    Corporate Peer Challenges are offered and run by the Local Government Association as part of the improvement and assurance framework for local government. This offer is underpinned by the principles of sector-led improvement to support continuous improvement across local government.

     

    A Corporate Peer Challenge for Camden Council took place in November 2025 and was conducted by a Peer Team led by the Chief Executive of Hackney Council and the Leader of Milton Keynes City Council, and also including senior officers from other local authorities and officers from the Local Government Association.

     

    Following a Corporate Peer Challenge, a report outlining the key findings and recommendations from the Peer Team is shared with the host council. In the spirit of openness and transparency, host councils are required to publish their reports. This report to Cabinet presents the Peer Team’s report of the Corporate Peer Challenge in Camden Council.

     

    A further report will be brought to Cabinet within six months that sets out Camden Council’s detailed response to the recommendations within the Corporate Peer Challenge report.

     

     

     

     

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    Response to the Cabinet Adviser Report on Resident Engagement on Anti-Social Behaviour and Community Safety (SC/2026/15)

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    Proposal for a Borough-wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to promote Responsible Consumption of Alcohol (SC/2026/11)

    Report of the Cabinet Member for Safer Communities

     

    The Cabinet is being asked to approve the consultation of a draft Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) prohibiting irresponsible alcohol consumption:

     

             To stop drinking alcohol or anything that is believed to be alcohol if requested to do so by an authorised officer, and/ or

             Surrender any alcohol or anything an officer believes to be alcohol, whether in a sealed or unsealed container, which will be disposed of.

     

    The report is coming to the Cabinet as this impacts all wards and this remains the authority Cabinet. Irresponsible alcohol consumption and the associated ASB is a key concern for communities in Camden and the use of a Public Space Protection Order would impose new restrictions and legal penalties.

     

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  • 12

    Award of grant for delivery of the Camden Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme 2026-2029 (AH/2026/01)

    Report of the Cabinet Member for Best Start for Children and Families

     

    The report provides an overview of Camden’s HAF programme, delivered by local providers, sports clubs, and voluntary sector organisations, the programme addresses holiday hunger, supports physical and mental well-being, and mitigates learning loss during school holiday periods. It flags confirmation from the Department for Education (DfE) that the previously annual national funding will be continued for three years from April 2026 at a level consistent to 2025/26 (£200m per annum).

     

    The report proposes that carrying on from previous years, the funding from the DfE is passed to the Young Camden Foundation (YCF) for them to distribute on our behalf. As the report also suggests that this arrangement continues for three years, it also recommends that we enter into a detailed grant agreement with YCF.

     

    Finally the report proposes that authority is delegated to the Director of Health and Wellbeing in consultation with the Cabinet member to release the grant annually to YCF, subject to performance.

    Camden grant funding for 2025/26 is £814,000. The Camden HAF delivery and administration allocation for 2026/27 is £788,240, a reduction of £25,370. Provisional grant allocations for 2027-2029 indicate that funding will continue to be at this reduced level.

    The report is being submitted to Cabinet because the total value of the proposed grant agreement exceeds £100,000 per annum and therefore requires a Cabinet decision on how this additional funding can be awarded

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    Procurement Strategy for Care and Support at Home (AH/2025/14)

    Report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care

     

    We all want to live in the place we call home, stay connected to the people and things that matter to us, and get the right support when life becomes harder. Adult social care is the support that helps make this possible — whether someone needs help to recover after illness, manage a disability, stay safe at home or remain active and connected in their community. When social care works well, it supports independence, dignity and connection; when it does not, people are more likely to become isolated or reach crisis.

     

    Demand for care and support at home in Camden continues to rise, while the provider market remains fragile. Existing contracts for homecare and reablement expire in September 2026. Over the past two years, Camden has undertaken extensive test-and-learn activity with providers, care workers and people drawing on care and support. This has generated clear evidence that more enabling, relationship-based care — supported through investment in care worker time — leads to improved outcomes for residents and a more stable workforce.

     

    This report sets out how Camden will strengthen care and support at home so that more people can live well, and age well, in their own homes and neighbourhoods.

     

    Cabinet is being asked to agree a long-term commissioning strategy for statutory Care Act care and support at home services, covering both homecare and reablement. The proposed approach builds on Camden’s established neighbourhood-based model and learning from recent test-and-learn activity. It would put in place five neighbourhood-based homecare contracts and three locality-based reablement contracts for a period of seven years, with break clauses and formal review points. The estimated total value of the contracts is £217.2 million for homecare and £16.8 million for reablement.

     

    The strategy represents a deliberate shift in how care and support at home is organised and delivered, building on learning from recent test and learn activity. This includes a shift away from task-led care towards enabling, relationship-based support; greater investment in care worker time and development; and stronger integration with neighbourhood and health services.

     

    Overall, the proposed approach will deliver more consistent outcomes for residents, support workforce stability, and align with the future direction of adult social care locally and nationally, while making responsible use of public resources over the life of the contracts.

     

    The strategy also aligns with Camden’s wider ambitions for health, wellbeing and connection, and continues the Council’s commitment to the Ethical Care Charter and payment of the London Living Wage.

     

    Cabinet is therefore asked to approve a seven-year neighbourhood-based commissioning approach that prioritises quality, workforce stability and prevention, while providing assurance through break clauses and formal review points.

     

    The report is being submitted to the Cabinet in line with Contract Standing Orders, which states that the Cabinet must agree procurement strategies for contracts over £5,000,000 (CSO C4.1).

     

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  • 14

    Approval of Resource Base for Council Tax and Business Rates (CS/2026/02)

    Report of the Cabinet Member for Finance and Cost of Living

     

    This report seeks approval of the resource bases for both Council Tax and Business Rates.

     

    The Council Tax base shows the number of dwellings in the borough, and any discounts, exemptions or premiums that have been granted. This data is primarily used to establish the amount of Council Tax that can be raised locally to fund services, as well as a wide range of other purposes, including grant allocations and policy development.  It is also used by the Greater London Authority and the Garden Square Committees to work out their precept on the Council Tax.

     

    The Business Rates Base shows how much in Business Rates is likely to raised when rates are charged at the levels set by Central Government and any eligible reliefs or exemptions have been granted. The Council is required to submit a certified National Non-Domestic Rates 1 (NNDR1) return, containing a more detailed analysis of the Business Rates forecast, to both the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and Greater London Authority (GLA) by the 31 January 2026.

     

    The report is coming to the Cabinet and then to Council because the Constitution requires the Council to approve the Council Tax base every year and because the Business Rates yield forms an important part of the 2026-27 Budget and Council Tax setting report which is due to come to Cabinet in February.

     

    In addition, the report sets out the local decisions Camden have made over previous years regarding various discounts and exemptions permitted in overriding legislation and regulations. Officers consider as they are directly relevant to this report and as they have significance with regard to the base calculation it is appropriate to on occasion present them to Cabinet and Council in full. By setting them out in full, while they have developed piece meal over the last decade, it ensures that Cabinet and Council are clear as to local discounts that form part of our taxbase and their cumulative impact. These always appear in the calculation Council approves annually, but by presenting them this way it also allows Council to decide whether they wish to vary, revoke or explicitly confirm that these policies are to continue to apply in the subsequent financial year.

     

     

     

     

     

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