Issue - meetings

Cabinet received the following public address:

Item 7 – Service & Resource Planning Report 2020/21 -Councillor Glynis Phillips, Shadow Cabinet member for Finance;

Item 8 – Business Management & Monitoring Report – July 2019 - Councillor Liz Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee;

Councillor Laura Price, Opposition Deputy Leader;

Item 9 – The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children’s Board Annual Reports - Cllr Liz Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee;

Councillor Gill Sanders, Shadow Cabinet Member for Children’s Services

Art Well, Local Resident;

Item 10 - Oxfordshire Adult’s Safeguarding Board Annual Report - Cllr Liz Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee; Cllr Sobia Afridi, Shadow cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Cllr Debbie McIlveen, local Councillor for Leys, Mr Art Well, local resident;

Item 11 – Report by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman – Investigation into a complaint against Oxfordshire County Council (Ref: 18 009 005), Councillor Liz Brighouse, Opposition Leader.

The following requests to speak had been agreed by the Chairman:

Mr Art Well speaking to Items 9 and 10 on safeguarding highlighted recent local police related deaths and pointed to the increase in stop and search powers. There was concern in the local community as reflected in a public meeting and the setting up of a group – The Afro-Caribbean Community Conversation. He expressed disappointment that the Chief Constable had not attended the meeting. He contrasted the help available to support the LGBTQ community with that for the Afro-Caribbean community feeling that they were under-valued and marginalised. He asked Cabinet and the Council to work with the community to improve the situation.

The Leader of the Council undertook to contact the Police and Crime Commissioner to try and arrange a meeting. The Cabinet Member for Local Communities stressed the importance of inclusivity and that the Council did all that it could to support all minorities.

At this point it was proposed by the Chairman and it was AGREED to vary the order of the agenda by taking Item 9 next.