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Cabinet
Tuesday, 18 July 2006

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Cabinet – 18 July 2006

ADDENDA

Item

4. Petitions and Public Address

Item

Speaker

5. Financial monitoring

Councillor Alan Armitage (as Shadow Member for Finance)

7. Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals

Councillor Janet Godden (as Shadow Member for Social Care & Policy Co-ordination)

8. Post 16 SEN provision

Councillor Anda Fitzgerald-O’Connor (as Chairman of Children's Services Scrutiny Committee) 

Councillor David Turner (as Shadow Member for Schools Improvement)

9. Primary School provision

Councillor David Turner (as Shadow Member for Schools Improvement)

10. Charging Policy For Activities In Schools

Councillor Anda Fitzgerald-O’Connor (as Chairman of Children's Services Scrutiny Committee) 

12. Registration Service Scrutiny Review

Councillor John Farrow (as Chairman of the Community Safety Scrutiny Committee)

15. SEEDA: Regional Economic Strategy

Councillor Anne Purse (as Shadow Member for Sustainable Development)

7. Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals: Performance Improvement and Cost Reduction Programme

Attached is a copy of a letter (download as .doc file) to the Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust from Councillor Dr Peter Skolar, in his capacity of Chairman of the Oxfordshire Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee, following the meeting of the Joint Committee on 13 July.

For the Cabinet’s information, the following table summarises the current financial pressures within Oxfordshire’s health system.

Organisation

Agreed Deficit

Recovery Plans

 

£m

£m

Oxfordshire PCT(s)

13.5

17.95

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

9

33

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Trust

2.4

7.8

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

1.2

5

Oxfordshire Learning Disability Trust

0

1

 

26.1

64.75

8. Post 16 SEN Provision

The Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee on 11 July received a written submission from CHOICE. A copy is attached. The Committee agreed to ask the Cabinet to:
      1. carry out further work, including the assessment of resource implications and consultation with parents around Option 3 set out in paragraphs 20 – 24 in the report;

      2. continue negotiations with the Learning & Skills Council and the Department for Education & Skills for further funding options;

      3. support the proposals (a), (b), (d) and (e) set out in the written submission from CHOICE.

Also attached is a statement from the chair of Iffley Mead School Governing Body commenting on the options identified in the report.

For the Cabinet’s information, the numbers of students in special and mainstream schools with Statements of SEN who will be 16+ in the next three years are:

Year

SLD

Schools

All Special Schools

Mainstream Schools

2007

45

86

148

2008

65

121

191

2009

45

83

162

Total

155

290

501

It is not possible to predict what proportion of these students would choose to stay on in/transfer to special schools at 16+ if the age range were to be extended. However, if ALL students in special schools were to remain on roll and the age range was extended to 19 the total would be an additional 290. The minimum cost would be around £3.5 million in "planned places".

If only those in schools catering for children with Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) were to stay on the total would be 155. The minimum cost would be £1.75million in "planned places".

The costs above would be reached over three years so the likely impact in year one would be around £1.2 million in the first example and around £0.6 in the second.

10. Charging Policy For Activities In Schools

Please see the attached submission from Abingdon & District Citizens’ Advice Bureau.

14. Developer Contributions to Service Infrastructure

An additional agreement completed in 2005/06 requires the following changes to the report:

Page 2, Paragraph 10:

    • No. of new Obligation agreements: 81
    • Value of contributions secured in those agreements: £4.146m

Page 7, Annex 3:

    • 2005/06 Pie Chart - change 80 to 81 in the title and 17 to 18 as the figure for the City
    • 2005/06 Bar Chart – change £3.956m to £4.146m in the title and 662 to 851 as the figure for the City

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