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 21 November 2025 and to receive information arising from them.

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

Requests to speak must be submitted no later than 9am three working days before the meeting, i.e. Tuesday, 27 January 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.

Where there are a number of requests from persons wishing to present similar views on the same issue, the Chair may require that the views be put by a single spokesperson. It is expected that only in exceptional circumstances will a person (or organisation) be allowed to address more than one meeting on a particular issue in any period of six months.

The public is reminded that the Committee is not a decision-making body and that it cannot investigate individual complaints.  The Committee requests that no individual children are named when addressing the Committee.

The Committee has requested a report on the Local Area Partnership’s SEND monitoring and Priority Action Plan and the opportunity to consider the Area SEND monitoring visit inspection report.

The Committee has invited Cllr Sean Gaul, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Lisa Lyons, the Director of Children’s Services, Matthew Tait, the Integrated Care Board’s Chief Operating Officer, to attend to present the report as well as Annette Perrington, Interim Deputy Director for Education, Deborah Smit, Assistant Director: SEND and Inclusion, Steve Crocker, independent Chair of the Oxfordshire SEND Strategic Improvement and Assurance Board, and the Co-Chair of the Oxfordshire Parent Carer Forum.

The Committee is asked to consider the report and raise any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet on behalf of Local Area Partnership system partners arising therefrom.

The Committee has requested a report setting out the draft guidance arising from the Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) Policy that was approved by Cabinet in July 2025.

Cllr Sean Gaul, Cabinet member for Children and Young
People, Lisa Lyons, the Director of Children’s Services, Annette Perrington, Interim Deputy Director: Education and Inclusion, and Deborah Smit, Assistant Director: SEND and Inclusion, have been invited to present the report.

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.

Report not received at the time of publication.

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