Decisions

Item 10 below was discussed in public session without detailed reference to the information contained on the annex, that remains exempt.

Noted.

Item 6 – Councillor Liz Brighouse

Councillor Jenny Hannaby

Councillor John Sanders

Item 8 – Councillor John Sanders

See attached annex.

Quarterly staffing report providing details of key people numbers and analysis of main changes since the previous report.

Recommendations agreed.

None.

None

To seek final approval of purchase of land and associated contract terms.

Recommendations agreed.

To consider and respond to the recommendations from the Performance Scrutiny Committee deep dive exploring what could be done to improve residents’ perception and experience of Oxfordshire’s highways.

The following amended recommendation was agreed:

RESOLVED:

(a)  To thank the Performance Scrutiny Committee for their work on the deep dive into highways;

(b)  To note the recommendations and to ask officers to evaluate and cost the proposals and to report back in the Autumn to the deep dive group and Performance Scrutiny Committee before reporting back to Cabinet;

(c)  That those activities already in train not be halted or paused and that Performance Scrutiny Committee members and Cabinet receive updates as appropriate.

Agreed, subject to the following correction (in bold italics) to the 4^th sentence of paragraph 11 of the preamble to Minute 4/19:

In relation to Oxford City a number of proposals were being looked at in relation to changes to manage congestion and the overriding principles would be that any changes must be combined with benefits.

Dr McWilliam introduced the annual refreshed Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for the Board’s consideration and approval (HWB7).

Members of the Board commended the officers who had been involved in the production of the JSNA for their very thorough and extensive work, in particular, Jackie Wilderspin and Margaret Melling in the Public Health and Research & Intelligence Teams, respectively.

Issues raised by Board members were as follows:

·         The need for a smaller group of officers to align the JSNA with the various housing and infrastructure plans, which tended to have longer lead in times, in order to model what was required in 10 years’ time;

·         The executive summary needed to be circulated on a much wider basis, for example to parish councils;

·         To undertake ‘deep dives’ into certain areas, or to conduct regular reviews into specified areas targeting certain areas of need in Oxfordshire which the JSNA had found to be below the national average; for example, physical activity for children, children with special educational needs from ethnic backgrounds and the increase in child referrals to the children looked after team.

The Board AGREED to approve the JSNA for 2018-19.