Agenda, decisions and minutes

Any county councillor may, by giving notice to the Proper Officer by 9 am two working days before the meeting, ask a question on any matter in respect of the Cabinet Member’s delegated powers.

The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.

Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time.

Forward Plan Ref: 2017/037

Contact: Kate Holburn, Head of Commissioning Drugs and Alcohol Tel: 07825 052768

Report by Strategic Director for People & Director of Public Health (CMDPH4).

The Drug and Alcohol Education Service is provided by the Training Effect and the contract has run from January 2014 to December 2016 when it was extended for a further year. The contract end date is the 31^st December 2017.

The service provides direct delivery of substance misuse / risky behaviours education to young people in secondary schools in years eight and nine but also other year groups as schools require. The service includes an anonymous survey carried out before the provider delivers the sessions. There are two programmes, one a universal skills development and one more targeted for children who may be already identified as needing further support. Schools are not obliged to use the service, but all but 3 universal schools do and 2 special schools. 

The request is to extend the contract beyond the end date of 31^st December 2017, for a further 15 months until 31^st March 2019.

The Cabinet Member for Public Health & Education is RECOMMENDED to approve this exemption from the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules.