Agenda

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the Community Select Committee held on Tuesday 11 November 2025.

As per the Community Select Committee’s Work Programme for 2025-26, it was agreed that the Committee should consider a focused session on Older People, including the Council’s policies and procedures on:

• Age Friendly Community
• Dementia Friendly Community
• Digital exclusion
• How older people access Council services

To address the above issues, Members will receive an officer presentation on the way older people are supported in Stevenage.

The Chair has invited the Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods and Older People, Cllr Myla Arceno, to discuss with Members her strategy to support older people. See the link to the Council motion and other Council policies linked to older people and dementia friendly Stevenage “establishing a lasting and sustainable commitment to Age Friendly Communities and Dementia-Friendly action in Stevenage”

Independent Living Schemes

Making Stevenage a Dementia Friendly Community

Home Adaptations

Housing for Older People Strategy

To consider any Part I business accepted by the Chair as urgent

To consider the following motions:

1. That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the ground that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs 1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

2. That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent