Agenda, decisions and minutes
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Questions from County Councillors 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. Minutes: Councillor Mark Cherry had given notice of
the following question to Councillor Melinda Tilley: “With the pressures on Oxfordshire County Council budget 17th February
2015, is it not a fact that some of the 44 children centres across Oxfordshire
will face closure or at the very least face staff loses in favour of more
volunteer workers.” Councillor
Melinda Tilley answered as follows: “The means
of securing the necessary savings in CEF have yet to be decided. In relation
to Children’s Centres, decisions will flow, in due course, from recommendations
of the Cabinet Advisory Group on Early Intervention and it would not
appropriate to pre-empt those recommendations.” |
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Closure of Hearing Impairment Resource Base at Rush Common School, Abingdon Forward Plan Ref: 2014/171 Contact: Diane Cameron, School Organisation Planning Officer Tel: (01865) 816445/Sue Edwards, Service Manager – SENSS Tel: (01865) 323391 Report by Director for Children’s Services (CMDCEF4). The proposal is to
formally close the Hearing Impairment Resource Base at Rush Common School in
Abingdon. From September 2014 there are no children attending this resource
base. This forms part of strategic changes to the services the Oxfordshire SENSS team are carrying out. The provision required as altered as technological and medical developments have progressed, and therefore the service provided will not remain the same. There will not be a reduction in support for future pupils that require it, but rather it will be delivered in more appropriate ways. There is no cut to funding related to this proposal in terms of the work SENSS carries out. The Cabinet Member
for Children, Education & Families is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposal to
close the Hearing Impairment Resource Base at Rush Common School. Additional documents: |