Agenda, decisions and minutes

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 15 September 2020 (CA3) and to receive information arising from them.

The Minutes of the meeting held on 15 September 2020 were approved and signed as a correct record.

The questions and answers are attached as an annex to the minutes.

This Cabinet meeting will be held virtually in order to conform with current guidelines regarding social distancing. Normally requests to speak at this public meeting are required by 9 am on the day preceding the published date of the meeting. However, during the current situation and to facilitate these new arrangements we are asking that requests to speak are submitted by no later than 9am four working days before the meeting i.e. 9 am on Wednesday 7 October 2020. Requests to speak should be sent to sue.whitehead@oxfordshire.gov.uk together with 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 9 am 2 working days before the meeting.

Where a meeting is held virtually and the addressee is unable to participate virtually their written submission will be accepted.

Written submissions should be no longer than 1 A4 sheet.

The following requests to address the meeting had been agreed by the Chairman:

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/064

Contact: Hannah Doney, Head of Corporate Finance Tel: 07584 174654

Report by Director of Finance (CA6).

This report is the first in the series on the Budget and Business Planning process for the forthcoming year and forms context and background information ahead of and part of the process which will culminate in Council setting a budget for 2021/22; a medium term financial strategy to 2025/26 and capital programme to 2029/30 and a Corporate Plan in February 2021. 

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)        Note the report;

(b)        Approve the Budget and Business Planning Process for 2021/22; and

(c)        Approve a five-year period for the Medium Term Financial Strategy to 2025/26 and ten-year period for the Capital Programme to 2030/31.

Cabinet considered a report, the first in the series on the Budget and Business Planning process for the forthcoming year that formed the context and background information ahead of and as part of the process which will culminate in Council setting a budget for 2021/22; a medium term financial strategy to 2025/26 and capital programme to 2030/31 and a Corporate Plan in February 2021. 

Councillor Glynis Phillips, Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance, highlighted that the budget setting process was taking place in the context of extreme uncertainty due to the cancellation of the autumn budget, waiting for the outcome of the Spending Review, the unknown financial implications of Covid 19 and a further delay in the new needs-based funding formula and changes in the way business rates are allocated. At the same time the  report contained a number of assumptions which would need to be reviewed as the process developed through the autumn and winter.

Councillor Phillips welcomed the recent government announcement of additional funding relating to wider Covid-19 cost pressures and queried what conditions were attached to the funding and whether the allocation to the County Council was known. eried why the underestimation on earmarked reserves was not known when the Council budget was set

Referring to Paragraph 3 in Annex 1b Councillor Phillips drew attention to the position on earmarked reserves where in the agreed budget in Feb 2020 earmarked reserves were estimated to be £66.6m at March 2020. The actual figure was £102.9m at March 2020 and she queried why this figure was not known at the time the budget was set in February.

Councillor Phillips commented that the existing gap was £24.4m and the biggest risk was the assumption that the grant allocations for 2020/2021 would be  rolled forward into 2021/2022.

Referring to the Council’s five-year Medium-Term Financial Strategy she felt it was ironic that as a result of government policy we are unable to confidently predict the financial strategy for next year let alone the following 4 years. She was concerned about this short term approach to local government funding.

On the Capital Programme Planning analysed over specific time lines Councillor Phillips commented that this looked very sensible. She welcomed the review of the funding gap of £18.2m in 2020/202.

On the Corporate Plan’ Councillor Phillips highlighted the role of councillors in informing the council’s priorities and noted that she could not see where councillors were involved in the review process.

Councillor Bartholomew responded to the comments made. He wished like Councillor Phillips that there could be more certainty but that this year was particularly difficult for obvious reasons. On the additional funding there was £1b across all councils but the allocation for Oxfordshire was not known yet.

On the earmarked reserves this was always an estimated figure and always changed a year end.

Councillor Bartholomew introduced the contents of the report that set out information on the context and starting point for the 2021/22 budget process. He noted the extreme uncertainty over government funding  ...  view the full minutes text for item 87/20

Cabinet Member: Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/089

Contact: Louise Tustian, Head of Insight & Corporate Programmes Tel: 07741 607452/Hannah Doney, Head of Corporate Finance Tel: 07584 174654

Report by Corporate Director Customers & Organisational Development and Director of Finance (CA7).

The report sets out Oxfordshire County Council’s (OCC’s) progress towards Corporate Plan priorities for 2020/21 August 2020.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

note this month’s business management and monitoring report; and

agree virements set out in Annex 2b.

Cabinet had before them a report setting out Oxfordshire County Council’s (OCC’s) progress towards Corporate Plan priorities for 2020/21 at August 2020.

Councillor Glynis Phillips, Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance commented that inevitably her role was to query areas of under performance but noted that the majority of business areas were still performing well. Councillor Phillips singled out the Public Health team who were still, for example, meeting their drug and alcohol abuse support targets while clearly having a pivotal and time-consuming role in combatting Covid-19.

Councillor Phillips referred to Public Health performance on Page 84 – Indicator 14 where on the prevalence of healthy children there is no data on a number of indicators because some of the workforce was deployed to the NHS response to Wave 1. Councillor Phillips queried whether these health visitors were back with the Council because their work e.g. reviewing children at 12months and the 2-2 and a half years was crucial to identifying any issues of neglect.

Councillor Phillips asked whether the  Cabinet Member was able to provide more detail on Page 62 indicator 11 Reduced carbon impact of our transport networks? The narrative stated that the success of the charging installation was not under the control of the Council but the Council could facilitate the project. She sought more information on how we were going to increase the number of charging spaces in the county which will be key to us meeting our carbon reduction target.

Councillor Phillips supported the recommendation that £112k grant from the Department of Education be allocated to better equip education settings to support pupils and students’ wellbeing and psychosocial recovery.  Also, the KS2 moderation and KS1 phonics grant of £22k be allocated to Education and Learning to carry out this role.

Cabinet Members responded to a number of other queries relating to the recruitment of a new programme manager as set out at Indicator 12, the review of unfunded posts and the income generation scheme.

Councillor Constance, Cabinet Member for Environment, undertook to respond to the question from Councillor Phillips relating to measures to facilitate the Park and Charge project and also to respond to a question on the statutory restrictions on the use of the surplus from the on-street parking charges and measures.

It was also agreed that Councillor Phillips receive a response to her question in relation to Indicator 14 as to whether health visitors deployed to the NHS during the pandemic are now back with their normal duties.

Councillor Heathcoat, Deputy Leader of the Council introduced the performance and risk elements of the report.

Councillor David Bartholomew, Cabinet Member for Finance introduced the finance element of the report.

During discussion Cabinet highlighted the performance of the Fire & Rescue Service and the Customer Service Centre. The CSC had achieved a 95% satisfaction rating which was a huge achievement.

RESOLVED:             to note this month’s business management and monitoring report; and agree virements set out in Annex 2b.

Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/122

Contact: Joanne Fellows, Growth Manager (Central) Tel: 07990 368897

Report by Director for Planning & Place (CA8).

This report seeks a decision on the introduction of temporary bus gates in Oxford city centre as part of the council's transport response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The report outlines the results of an online survey of public and stakeholder opinion on the temporary bus gate proposals, along with an analysis of the costs, risks, and longer term strategic implications of the scheme.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

(a)        recognise the council’s current commitments to deliver a wide range of transport initiatives across the county along with its ongoing focus on Oxford city;

(b)        welcome the level of response received to the temporary bus gates (Oxford city centre) survey and the wider debate that this stimulated;

(c)        recognise the wide range of important issues raised by those opposing, supporting, and undecided about the temporary city centre bus gates;

(d)        not proceed with the temporary bus gates both in recognition of the split of local opinion and in consideration of their likely impact upon the council’s wider strategic transport strategy and resources, and to use the invaluable feedback received to inform the development of the council’s wider transport strategy;

(e)        subject to (d) above, work with Oxford City Council and other partners to accelerate, where feasible, work on the council’s wider transport strategy including the provision of bus gates as part of the Connecting Oxford programme, as well as the Zero Emission Zone, the active transport programme, and measures to improve bus journey times and encourage COVID-secure bus use.

Cabinet considered a report seeking a decision on the introduction of temporary bus gates in Oxford city centre as part of the council's transport response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The report outlined the results of an online survey of public and stakeholder opinion on the temporary bus gate proposals, along with an analysis of the costs, risks, and longer term strategic implications of the scheme.

Councillor Tom Hayes, Deputy Leader of Oxford City Councillor spoke in support of the introduction of the temporary bus gates, outlining reasons why he felt that there was not a solid base of evidence for recommendation (d) and the proposal not to proceed. Firstly, he recognised the  split of opinion but the majority were in favour of the bus gates overall. Councillor Hayes commented that the interpretation of the survey results was skewed in part due to the design of the survey that meant that more responses were bundled in to bad idea than in to good idea. Even so OCC had progressed schemes where there had been a split of opinion. Secondly the report referred to the impact of the bus gates on the wider transportation strategy and resources Councillor Hayes commented that the City and County were working together to integrate the zero emissions zone and Connecting Oxford and this has been a long standing plan. The City Council believed that they should integrate further with the City Centre bus gates and the Tranche 2 bus gates. It seemed seemed peculiar to propose abandoning the City Centre bus gates as a bolt on to the Connecting Oxford programme but rush towards another bolt on in the form of the Tranche 2 bus gates. With the loss of the City Centre bus gates, highlighted in the next Active Travel bid Councillor Hayes queried whether there was a risk of losing out on funding. The City Centre bus gates were a perfect fit for this fund. Thirdly it was important to deliver the wider transportation strategy that City and County colleagues have spent many years developing. Access restrictions are part of the Connecting Oxford plan and Tranche 2 bid and is a nettle that must be grasped. Councillor Hayes queried whether the County was brave enough to take the actions necessary. He considered that access restrictions were the only way to bring about fast, consistent and reliable bus travel. Tranche 2 was the only emergency active travel show in town and it is not focussed on the City Centre. Councillor Hayes queried in what other City this was the case. He referred to the work he and partners had done over many years and suggested that they had real concern about the lack of communication and that the decision today and the way it was conveyed was important if relationships were not to be impacted.

Responding to a question from Councillor Bartholomew about the number of emails received by Councillor Hayes and whether in favour or not Councillor Hayes replied that people with concerns will  ...  view the full minutes text for item 89/20

Cabinet Member: Local Communities

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/113

Contact: Sam Shepherd, Senior Policy Officer Tel: 07789 088173

Report by Corporate Director for Customers & Organisational Development (CA9).

Oxfordshire County Council takes its obligations and commitments to equalities, diversity and inclusion very seriously. This update of the council's equality policy has been undertaken in partnership with Cherwell District Council to align approaches in a joint policy. This is in line with the agreed principles of joint working. It reflects the serious inequalities within our communities highlighted by the Director of Public Health Annual Report, the Black Lives Matter movement and the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19.

This item highlights the need for change, describes the process to update the County Council policy and describes what we want to be different as a result of the work. It seeks Cabinet agreement on the 'Including Everyone. Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Framework' and its initial Action Plan. 

The work supports delivery of the Council’s ‘Thriving Communities’ vision due to the cross-cutting nature of equalities, diversity and inclusion. It also aligns with the Director of Public Health Report: ‘Some are more equal than others’.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)          AGREE the Including Everyone, Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Framework, as contained within Annex 1;

(b)          DELEGATE to the Corporate Director for Customers and Organisational Development, in consultation with the Cabinet member for Local Communities, consideration of any amendments proposed through the decision-making process at Cherwell District Council;      

(c)          AGREE the initial Including Everyone, Action Plan, as contained within Annex 2. 

Oxfordshire County Council takes its obligations and commitments to equalities, diversity and inclusion very seriously. Cabinet considered an update of the council's equality policy that had been undertaken in partnership with Cherwell District Council to align approaches in a joint policy. This is in line with the agreed principles of joint working. The report sought Cabinet agreement on the 'Including Everyone. Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Framework' and its initial Action Plan. 

Councillor Liz Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee, commented that paragraph 16 of the report reflected what was said at Performance Scrutiny Committee and much of what was discussed was incorporated into the Action Plan. Councillor Brighouse highlighted the final point that related to people with mobility impairments and noted that the discussion on the last item made clear the difficulties people with mobility issues faced in getting around Oxfordshire easily As a Committee they wanted to look at the Action Plan on a regular basis and in addition felt that a members seminar would be helpful so that all members understood what was trying to be achieved. In relation to data the Committee were concerned of the need to have better data in relation to young carers and also the number of different languages spoken  in our schools. Excellent document andt hanks officers work. Supports very well the recent commitment at the last Council meeting to make Oxfordshire an anti-racist county. So many of the people living in our County do not feel included, people in poverty, those affected by covid-19. Excellent corporate plan called a Thriving Oxfordshire and would prefer tthis to be called Inclusive Oxfordshire rather than Including Everyone as not everyone does feel included.

Councillor Gray, Shadow Cabinet Member for Local Communities, Claire Taylor, Corporate Director Customers & organisational Development and and Sam Shepherd, Policy Team Leader gave a presentation that highlighted the need for change, described the process to update the County Council policy the close partnership approach with Cherwell District Council and the next steps.

During discussion Cabinet:

·         Supported the Framework and Plan and highlighted that the actions taken as a result were key to its success.

·         Was pleased that connections were being made with the Director of Public Health’s annual report the thrust of which was to highlight deprivation that led to inequalities.

·         The positive support from within the community for each other was a positive to come from the pandemic and could be a springboard to breaking down barriers going forward.

·         Highlighted the opportunity to revisit the paragraph on equality implications included in all reports to ensure that the changes we make are fair and inclusive.

·         Noted the need to be careful in the phrasing used so that whilst we must be inclusive and celebrate diversity the language used should not inadvertently offend a large group of people.

·         Highlighted that this was a joint piece of work in partnership with Cherwell District Council to ensure both able to deliver onand the BAME network. the promise of the opening line of the document.  ...  view the full minutes text for item 90/20

Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/116

Contact: Sarah Gilbert, Climate Action Team Leader Tel: 07867 467797

Report by Corporate Director – Place & Growth (CA10).

Oxfordshire County Council declared a climate emergency in April 2019, pledging to be carbon neutral by 2030 for its own operations and estate. The climate emergency declaration was followed by a public commitment in November 2019 to prioritise action on climate change across the council’s decision-making, services and activities.

This paper introduces the framework that has been developed to guide the council’s approach to climate action and provides an update on the joint work being done by OCC and CDC in this area.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

:

(a)          Approve the Climate Action Framework (Annex 1) to drive the council’s work on Climate Action

(b)          Note the work taking place to mobilise joint CDC/OCC Climate Action programme.

Oxfordshire County Council declared a climate emergency in April 2019, pledging to be carbon neutral by 2030 for its own operations and estate. The climate emergency declaration was followed by a public commitment in November 2019 to prioritise action on climate change across the council’s decision-making, services and activities.

Cabinet had before them a report that sought approval of the framework that has been developed to guide the council’s approach to climate action and that provided an update on the joint work being done by OCC and CDC in this area.

Councillor Constance, Cabinet member for Environment introduced the contents of the report and moved the recommendations.

Cabinet members in welcoming the Climate Action Framework suggested that it would be helpful to share with Community Action Groups and schools.

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)          Approve the Climate Action Framework (Annex 1) to drive the council’s work on Climate Action

(b)          Note the work taking place to mobilise joint CDC/OCC Climate Action programme.

Cabinet Member: Children & Family Services/Education & Cultural Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/083

Contact: Kay Bishop, OSCD Business Manager Tel: 07786 692370

Report by Independent Chair of Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children’s Board (CA11).

he OSCB Annual Report sets out the challenges of the ongoing demand on the system with neglect being a key feature; the need to keep children safe in full-time education and the contextual safeguarding risks that exist for children outside of their home environment. The report acknowledges that, as ‘system issues’, they will need ‘system leaders’ e.g. political leaders, headteachers, senior managers to bring a collective focus on them to deliver change.  The report also highlights a number of examples of good practice including the increase in support to families at an early stage; the multi-agency practice guides following case review and audits; the escalation of safeguarding issues to board level and the safeguarding training of approximately 10,000 local practitioners.

The Performance Audit and Quality Assurance subgroup scrutinizes the effectiveness of safeguarding practice. This annual report summarises the common themes for learning and improvement to support vulnerable children. It concludes that challenges for the safeguarding partnership are to not lose sight of the individual needs of children; to keep children safe from neglect and to take individual responsibility for our role in the safeguarding partnership. The report has evidence of high standards of partnership working and acknowledges the complex challenges faced by workers.  

The Case Review and Governance Annual report outlines the framework in terms of Child Practice Safeguarding Reviews. It summarises the learning from all case reviews and reflects that the findings are not dissimilar to those of the National Triennial Review of cases e.g. neglect, difficult family circumstances, the vulnerability of adolescents and the role of schools in keeping children safe. It provides links to the ten most common learning points and practice improvement guides.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the reports.

The OSCB’s remit is to co-ordinate and ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each agency on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in Oxfordshire. Cabinet had before them the annual report summarising the key achievements in the last year and providing an analysis of safeguarding arrangements.

Cabinet also considered two further supporting annual reports: the Performance, Audit & Quality Assurance Annual Report and the Case Review & Governance Annual Report.

Councillor Liz Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee commended the report and thanked Richard Simpson as the former Chairman of the OSCB for the enormous difference he had made during his time as Chairman.

Councillor Harrod, Cabinet member for Children & Family Services echoed the thanks to Richard and introduced Jabe Portman in her role as Interim Independent Chairman. Councillor Harrod thanked Kay Bishop and the Team for a vastly improved format for the annual report.

Jane Portman, Tan Lea and Lara Patel introduced the contents of the three reports.

RESOLVED:             to note the reports.

The OSCB’s remit is to co-ordinate and ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each agency on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in Oxfordshire. Cabinet welcomed the annual report summarising the key achievements in the last year and providing an analysis of safeguarding arrangements.

Cabinet also noted two further supporting annual reports: the Performance, Audit & Quality Assurance Annual Report and the Case Review & Governance Annual Report.

Ad before them

Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care & Public Health

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/100

Contact: Steven Turner, OSAB Business Manager Tel: (01865) 328993

Report by Deputy Director Adult Social Care (CA12).

The OSAB is required to report annually on the work of the Board and of its partners, assessing the position of the partnerships in relation to the safeguarding adults at risk within Oxfordshire.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the priorities for 2020-21.

Cabinet considered the annual report of the OSAB on the work of the Board and of its partners, assessing the position of the partnerships in relation to safeguarding adults at risk within Oxfordshire.

Councillor Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee commended the practice of looking at the work of Board that took place in Oxfordshire. It was considered at three different places.  At Performance Scrutiny Committee they had discussed the need to find a way to present more clearly some of the data around homeless figures to understand about repeat alerts.

Councillor Lawrie Stratford thanked Dr Sue Ross, the Independent Chair for her work in chairing what was a very large partnership. He noted that in addition to the consideration given to the report at OCC the report was also considered by the various partners.

Dr Ross presented the contents of the report.

Cabinet welcomed the excellent and informative report.

RESOLVED:             to note the priorities for 2020-21.

Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/099

Contact: Phil Whitfield, Principal Officer – Service Improvement Tel: 07741 607809

Report by Director of Community Operations (Interim) (CA13).

Oxfordshire County Council were formally approached by South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse to work jointly with them to investigate the feasibility of implementing CPE within their Districts. The scope of this was broadened to look at the county as a whole and include Cherwell in the investigation. CPE is already in place in Oxford City and West Oxfordshire. The investigation found CPE was appropriate for all remaining districts across Oxfordshire.

Officers are now seeking approval from Cabinet to make a formal application to the Department for Transport to implement CPE across the remaining districts  

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)             Approve the submission of an application of the Department for  for the introduction of a Special Enforcement Area (SEA) and bus lane enforcement powers across the districts of Cherwell, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse to provide Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE).

(b)             Support the proposal for Oxfordshire County Council to manage this new ‘on street’ service.

Oxfordshire County Council were formally approached by South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse to work jointly with them to investigate the feasibility of implementing CPE within their Districts. The scope of this was broadened to look at the county as a whole and include Cherwell in the investigation. CPE is already in place in Oxford City and West Oxfordshire. The investigation found CPE was appropriate for all remaining districts across Oxfordshire.

Cabinet considered a report seeking approval to make a formal application to the Department for Transport to implement CPE across the remaining districts 

Councillor Jenny Hannaby, local councillor for Grove & Wantage spoke in support of the proposals.,

Councillor Constance, Cabinet Member for Environment introduced the contents of the report and moved the recommendations.

During discussion Cabinet supported the recommendations.

Paul Feehily, Corporate Director Place & Growth responded to a query on the of assumptions set out at paragraph 6 of the report. He stated it was right to be aware of the risks but advised that he was very comfortable with the assumptions there and the likely income. He also explained the cost contributions from District Councils was appropriate as they were contributing to some of the set up costs but a larger portion of the  costs would fall to the County Council by way of additional line painting and signage.

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)             Approve the submission of an application of the Department for the introduction of a Special Enforcement Area (SEA) and bus lane enforcement powers across the districts of Cherwell, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse to provide Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE).

(b)             Support the proposal for Oxfordshire County Council to manage this new ‘on street’ service.

Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/101

Contact: James Gagg, Infrastructure Strategy Team Leader (Interim) Tel: 07776 997303

Report by Director of Planning & Place (CA14).

This report gives context to the proposed OCC response to the draft EEH Transport Strategy, set out in Annex 1.  It sets out the background to development of the EEH Transport Strategy, and summarises the proposed consultation response.  It also considers the proposals for the establishment of EEH as a statutory sub-national transport body and the powers and responsibilities that this would (or could) have.  Finally, it covers key points for consideration on corporate polices and priorities, finance, sustainability and equality, and risk management.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to endorse the Oxfordshire County Council Response to the England’s Economic Heartland Draft Transport Strategy as included in Annex 1.

The report before Cabinet gave context to the proposed OCC response to the draft EEH Transport Strategy, set out in Annex 1.  It set out the background to development of the EEH Transport Strategy, and summarised the proposed consultation response.  It also considered the proposals for the establishment of EEH as a statutory sub-national transport body and the powers and responsibilities that this would (or could) have.  Finally, it covered key points for consideration on corporate polices and priorities, finance, sustainability and equality, and risk management.

Councillor Constance, Cabinet Member for Environment moved the recommendations.

During discussion Cabinet generally supported the response. Councillor Gray stated that he was quite neutral to the Strategy. He did not support the super highway and feared this was a trojan horse aimed at getting approval. Councillor Constance stressed that this was not about any piece of infrastructure and was still a bottom up body.

RESOLVED:            (by 9 votes for with 1 abstention) to endorse the Oxfordshire County Council Response to the England’s Economic Heartland Draft Transport Strategy as included in Annex 1.

Councillor Mark Grey asked that he be recorded as having abstained from voting on the recommendation.

Cabinet Member: Leader

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/082

Contact: Sue Whitehead, Principal Committee Officer Tel: 07393 001213

To report on a quarterly basis any executive decisions taken under the specific powers and functions delegated under the terms of Part 7.1 (Scheme of Delegation to Officers) of the Council’s Constitution – Paragraph 6.3(c)(i).  It is not for Scrutiny call-in.

To report on a quarterly basis any executive decisions taken under the specific powers and functions delegated under the terms of Part 7.1 (Scheme of Delegation to Officers) of the Council’s Constitution – Paragraph 6.3(c)(i).  It is not for Scrutiny call-in.

Cabinet Member: All

Contact Officer: Sue Whitehead, Committee Services Manager Tel: 07393 001213

The Cabinet Procedure Rules provide that the business of each meeting at the Cabinet is to include “updating of the Forward Plan and proposals for business to be conducted at the following meeting”.   Items from the Forward Plan for the immediately forthcoming meetings of the Cabinet appear in the Schedule at CA.  This includes any updated information relating to the business for those meetings that has already been identified for inclusion in the next Forward Plan update.

The Schedule is for noting, but Cabinet Members may also wish to take this opportunity to identify any further changes they would wish to be incorporated in the next Forward Plan update.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the items currently identified for forthcoming meetings.

The Cabinet considered a list of items for the immediately forthcoming meetings of the Cabinet.

RESOLVED:            to note the items currently identified for forthcoming meetings.