Decision details

To seek approval for Oxfordshire Employment Service to enter into contracts with other local authorities and agencies.

The Cabinet Member:

(a)  noted the current arrangements with Shaw Trust and the potential for the contract to be extended for up to two years;

(b)   agreed that the Director of Adult Social Care should enter into future contracts with other organisations and local authorities for Oxfordshire Employment Services to provide services to those organisations and local authorities that met the aims of the service; and

(c)  instructed that legal advice should be taken before any further arrangements were entered into in order to ensure that the Council had sufficient power to enter into any proposed contract.