Full Council

• What is Full Council?
• How often do Full Council meetings take place?
• Who can attend Full Council meetings?
• Further information

What is Full Council?

Full Council is a meeting of all Haringey’s 57 Councillors.

It is chaired by The Mayor who also maintains a ceremonial role. It is run according to formal rules of debate known as standing orders as laid out in the Council’s Constitution.

Full Council’s decision making responsibilities include:

• Agreeing strategies and plans
• Setting budgets
• Taking decisions on executive functions outside approved policy or budget framework
• Adopting and / or changing the constitution

It is also a forum for debate on policy issues.

Some business can only be determined by full Council such as:

• Setting the Council Tax
• Appointment of civic offices eg Mayor
• Appointing Leader/Cabinet/Committees
• Approval of certain plans/strategies

Council can receive petitions and deputations from members of the public about things that affect the local area. For more information on this please see the Get Involved section of the website.

The framework that lays out how the Council is governed is the Council’s Constitution. The Constitution lays out the role of Full Council and the terms of reference can be found at Part 3, Section C of that document.

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How often do Full Council meetings take place?

Full Council meets eight times a year plus the Annual Meeting and any special meetings required. Meetings take place in the Council Chamber at the Wood Green Civic Centre.

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Who can attend Full Council meetings?

Full Council meetings are open to the public and details of these can be viewed in the online meetings calendar.

You can also look at Agendas and Minutes of upcoming and previous Full Council meetings.

Videos of these meetings (webcasts).

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Further Information

For more information about the Full Council, please contact the Committee Secretariat:

Ken Pryor,
Democratic Services Manager (Council)

Tel 020 8489 2915
Fax 020 8489 2660
Email asking.questions@haringey.gov.uk.

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