Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence and temporary appointments.

See guidance note on the back page.

The Committee is recommended to APPROVE the minutes of the meeting held on 04 April 2026 and to receive information arising from them.

Members of the public who wish to speak on an item on the agenda at this meeting, or present a petition, can attend the meeting in person or ‘virtually’ through an online connection.

Requests to speak must be submitted no later than 9am, 13 September 2026.

Requests should be submitted to the Scrutiny Officer at scrutiny@oxfordshire.gov.uk.

If you are speaking ‘virtually’, you may submit a written statement of your presentation to ensure that if the technology fails, then your views can still be taken into account. A written copy of your statement can be provided no later than 9am on the day of the meeting. Written submissions should be no longer than 1 A4 sheet.

Cllr Rebekah Fletcher, Cabinet member for Adults, Karen Fuller, Director of Adult Social Care, Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark, Independent Chair of Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board, and Steve Turner, Strategic Partnerships Manager – Adult Social Services, have been invited to present a report on Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report 2025-26.

The Committee is asked to consider the report and raise any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

Cllr Rebekah Fletcher, Cabinet member for Adults, Karen Fuller, Director of Adult Social Care, Victoria Baran, Deputy Director of Adult Social Care, and Will Gardner, Programme manager – Connect to Work Oxfordshire, have been invited to present a report on the Update on the Council's Connect to Work Programme.

The Committee is asked to consider the report and raise any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

The annex to the report is exempt from disclosure. The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories: 3. Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that a negotiation is ongoing and would prejudice the position of the authority in the process of that negotiation and the Council’s standing generally in relation to such matters in future, to the detriment of the Council’s ability properly to discharge its fiduciary and other duties as a public authority.

Cllr Rebekah Fletcher, Cabinet member for Adults, Karen Fuller, Director of Adult Social Care, Victoria Baran, Deputy Director of Adult Social Care, and Ramone Samuda, Adult Social care Assurance Lead have been invited to present a report on the Response to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Assessment and Improvement Programme.

The Committee is asked to consider the report and raise any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

The Committee is recommended to AGREE its work programme for forthcoming meetings, having heard any changes from previous iterations, and taking account of the Cabinet Forward Plan and of the Budget Management Monitoring Report.

The latest publication of the Cabinet Forward Plan can be found here.

The Committee is recommended to NOTE the progress of previous recommendations and actions arising from previous meetings, having raised any questions on the contents.

Attached are the Cabinet responses to the People Overview and Scrutiny Committee reports on Domestic Abuse - Safe Accommodation Provision, and Consultation on Proposed Changes to Adult Social Care Contributions Policy. The Committee is asked to NOTE the response.