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Cabinet
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17 July 2007
ADDENDA
Item
3. Minutes
To note, the minutes of the meeting held on
20 June 2007
(CA3) have been amended as follows.
(i)
72/07 – Insert as second sentence:
Councillor Waine reported that the Option of the ‘New Secondary School’
will now include sharing the ’14-19 Facility’ between the three schools, namely
the new co-educational school, St. Birinus School and Didcot Girls’ School,
recognising the level of collaboration necessary in delivery.
(ii)
75/07 – Second paragraph now reads:
Councillor Alan Armitage, speaking as shadow Cabinet Member for Finance,
expressed concern that any delays in Project Link would adversely impact on the
timetable for delivery of
Shared
Services
. He asked that the monitoring and scrutiny of
Project Link, SAP and
Shared
Services
be better co-ordinated
bearing in mind the interdependencies.
(iii)
86/07 - last sentence of second paragraph now reads:
Councillor Patrick expressed concern over Option C not being delivered
in time for large housing development planned for Grove and the potential risk
of not providing joint community facilities which are badly needed.
In relation to Minute 78/07
(Establishment Review), a brief report updating Members of the Cabinet on the
issue of vacancy numbers is attached as Annex 1.
4. Petitions
and Public Address
The Leader of the Council
has agreed the following request to address the meeting:-
Item
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Speaker
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5. Financial Monitoring
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Councillor
Alan Armitage (as Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance)
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7. Supported Living for people with a
Learning Disability: proposal for the use of Prudential Borrowing
|
Councillor
Alan Armitage (as Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance)
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11. Youth Justice Plan
|
Councillor
Jean Fooks (as Shadow Cabinet Member for Children & Young People)
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12. Schools Organisation
Arrangements
|
Councillor
David Turner
(as Shadow Cabinet
Member for Schools Improvement)
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13. Full Time Admission for All Reception
Year
|
Councillor
David Turner
(as Shadow Cabinet
Member for Schools Improvement)
Mr Neil Grady (on behalf of the Association of
Private, Voluntary and Independent Providers)
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14. Planning Preparation and Assessment Time
Scrutiny Review
|
Councillor
David Turner
(as Shadow Cabinet
Member for Schools Improvement)
Councillor Sue
Haffenden (as Chairman of Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee)
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15. Implementation Plan for the Regional
Economic Strategy
|
Councillor Zoe Patrick (as Leader of the
Opposition)
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18. Planning for a Sustainable Future and
meeting the Energy Challenge White Papers
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Councillor Anne Purse (as Shadow Cabinet Member
for Sustainable Development)
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9. Homes
for Older People
On 5 July the Social & Community Services
Scrutiny Committee AGREED to forward the following advice to Cabinet:
(a) this Committee notes that a programme of work is already underway as part of the local development framework
and wishes to emphasise that under
section 106 agreements housing specifications should be for older people (extra
care housing) as well as key workers; and
(b) this Committee wishes to bring to the
Cabinet’s attention details of an additional method by which public or private
landowners can dispose of land for various social purposes such as affordable
housing or extra care housing as outlined by Councillor Larry Sanders (Oxfordshire Community Land Trusts) (further information on this
is set out below).
Oxfordshire
Community
Land
Trusts (CLTs)
CLT - between RSL and
Private Developer
There are usually two opposing options for
public sector landowners wanting to dispose of land suitable for housing. One can choose an open market sale to a private developer, gaining the biggest
capital receipt but little additional social capital or one can gift the land
to a social landlord who has the grant or borrowing capacity to produce social
rented housing, not gaining any capital receipt.
Community
Land
Trusts provide a middle way which can result in a better capital receipt (than
RSL) but also
avoids the worst effects of a private sale as it preserves the property in an
affordable price range, in perpetuity.
What is a CLT?
Community
Land
Trusts are community-based organisations that enable local communities to own and manage local land assets for the benefits of
their local community. The land can be used for
affordable housing, work space or agricultural use depending on what the community most
needs. Because the community owns it, it avoids the problems of
escalating land costs and results in lower cost provision of services for local
people.
The CLT is increasingly recognised as one possible means of overcoming the widespread problems of social exclusion and
unaffordable housing caused by continually escalating land values. Experience in Scotland and the US has shown that not only can CLTs
guarantee long-term affordability; they also act as a means of community
engagement giving local people collective control of neighbourhood land and
property assets - sustainable communities generating social capital.
Apart from the many examples in
Scotland
and the
US
, examples of organisations similar to CLTs in urban environments are the Coin
Street Co-op in
London
and the Glenkerry House cooperative in the
East
End
. (p 21 of Common Ground for Mutual Home Ownership).
In
England
,
the organisation that holds the land will probably be an
Industrial and Provident Society or a Community Interest Company, both of which
have legal means
of preventing the sale of the asset. This is the holding
body which then leases
the land under careful management to a carefully constructed local group of
volunteers to run it.
11. Youth
Justice Plan
The Children’s services Scrutiny Committee AGREED to forward the following advice to Cabinet:
This Committee wishes to:
(a) congratulate
the Service on the improvements made with regard to reducing the number of new
entrants to the youth justice system following investment in preventative
services and the great teamwork shown by staff;
(b) express concern that all funding streams for preventative
services for young offenders are currently at risk from April 2008, including
the Children’s Fund, Positive Activities for Young People and the Youth Justice
Board Prevention budget;
(c) strongly urge that funding needs to be ring fenced in the form of specific grants for this area of work, which should not
go into the general revenue grant; and
(d)
emphasise the importance to society of preventative work which supports
children and young people and their families.
13. Full
Time Admissions for All Reception Year
Members
are asked to note the additional recommendation:
(c) request
the Leader of the Council write to the Secretary of State to ask that
Government assesses the impact of the principal existing and all new Early
Years initiatives on the financial viability of these organisations before
proceeding further with the initiatives, in view of the vital role played by
Oxfordshire’s private, voluntary and independent nurseries, pre-schools and
day-care providers.
14. Planning
Preparation and Assessment Time Scrutiny Review
The Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee AGREED to submit the Review Report to Cabinet subject to the Task Group, in
conjunction with Mr Hehir, amending Recommendation 11 as follows:
i. removing the call for the DfES to conduct a wide ranging independent survey of the actual cost of
successful and sustainable models of implementation of PPA time in primary and
nursery schools;
ii. strengthening this recommendation in
order to urge the government to provide adequate funding for PPA time, in
particular in the grant settlement and removing the wording “if possible”; and
iii. including
the following wording (as indicated in bold italics):
..’the implications in terms of workload for different
groups of school staff especially the increased work for headteachers
which impacts on recruitment and retention…
19.
Forward Plan
and Future Business
Members are asked to
note the following additions to the
Forward Plan
:
Members are asked to
note the following amendments to the
Forward Plan
:
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