Agenda

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the Community Select Committee held on 22 September 2026.

Members are invited to interview the Health and Wellbeing Manager, Ryan Ansell and a representative from the Council’s leisure provider, Everyone Active and Stevenage Football Club Foundation, Pete Bealey as part of the Committee’s Support for Young People review. Contributors have been provided with some questions in advance of the meeting which will be addressed in a PowerPoint presentation.

• Please can you provide the Committee with an overview of how young people engage the Council’s Healthy Hub and how the Healthy Stevenage Strategy addresses the needs of young people?
• Is there a directory of sporting and cultural clubs in Stevenage that young people could access? If not, could this be considered as a development for the future?
• What services do Everyone Active (the Council’s leisure provider) provide for young people?
• What work are Stevenage FC Foundation doing with young people?

PowerPoint presentation to follow.

Members are invited to interview the Head of Community Advice and Support, Sarah Pateman, as part of the Support for Young People review to address issues including Safeguarding, child exploitation and safety of home educated children. The Head of Community Advice and Support has been provided with some questions in advance of the meeting which have been addressed in a PowerPoint presentation.

• Please can you provide the Committee with an overview of how the Council provides safeguarding for its young residents?
• What are the main safeguarding concerns regarding young people?
• Please can you share what outreach work there is to home school educated children

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