Agenda item

Report of Remembrancer 

The Parliamentary Assistant introduced the Counter-Terror and Security bill, noting that the bill had now received royal assent, and that this placed two new duties on the City of London Corporation and the Court of Common Council, Prevent and the Channel programme. The Act also imposed a general duty to ‘have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. He concluded by noting that there would need to be a review in the future on the work undertaken by the City of London Corporation  to meet the requirements of the new Act. The Group agreed to hold further discussions on follow up actions that were needed to implement the duties imposed by the Act on the City of London Corporation and associated bodies.

The Community Safety Manager informed the Group that a workshop on the Prevent duty for the City of London Corporation had taken place recently. The workshop had helped identify gaps between services that needed to be addressed.

The Group discussed the requirement imposed by the Act on convening a Channel Panel to deal with cases of terrorism. Members were asked to inform the Town Clerk if they were interested in being part of the Panel

RESOLVED: That:

·         the Group would discuss any further action needed to implement the Act on a adhoc basis; and

·         Members will inform the Town Clerk of their interest in becoming part of the Channel Panel