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Forward Plan Ref: 2023/282

Contact: Andrea Benneyworth, Programme Manager REoC Childrens Service, andrea.benneyworth@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director for Children’s Services (CMDCEYPS4).

Part of the approved DFE Match funding bid of £10.45m to provide new homes for children within the county, Greenways is one of 4 new homes OCC will acquire and refurbish as a short-term care home for children.

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

2. Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

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.

Annex A containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to

Release funds to:

(a)                Purchase Greenways, Lamborough Hill, Wootton OX13 6BY for the amount listed in Annex A

(b)                Cover fees of amount listed in Annex A (Stamp Duty Land Tax, valuation, legal etc)

(c)                Cover the adaptation and refurbishment for the amount listed in Annex A

Recommendations approved.

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/283

Contact: Andrea Benneyworth, Programme Manager REoC Childrens Service, andrea@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director for Children’s Services (CMDCEYPS5).

Part of the approved DFE Match funding bid of £10.45m to provide new homes for children within the county, Oathill Lodge is one of 4 new homes OCC will acquire and refurbish as a long-term care home for children.

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

2. Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

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.

Annex A containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to

Release funds to:

a)              Purchase Oathill Lodge, Enstone, Chipping Norton for the amount listed in Annex A

b)              Cover fees of amount listed in Annex A (Stamp Duty Land Tax, valuation, legal etc)

c)               Cover the adaptation and refurbishment for the amount listed in Annex A

Recommendations approved.