Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adults

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/208

Contact: Bhavna Taank, Lead Commissioner – Live Well

Bhavna.taank@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Adult Social Services (CA10)

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Acknowledge and endorse this report developed with My Life My Choice (MLMC) Campaign Champions.

b)    Confirm the county council’s commitment to work with the MLMC Community Champions on the three pledges that they have set out as part of the Councillor Deal where these fall within the county council’s remit and where they are within the scope of the Oxfordshire Learning Disability Plan 2025-2035 (see annex 1a and 1b). Cabinet is asked to note that this commitment may need to be refreshed and reviewed dependent on the outcomes of Local Government Reorganisation.

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report on “County Councillor Deal” created by a team of learning-disabled people (Campaign Champions) focusing on three key areas of life they want the council’s work to focus on. The My Life My Choice Campaign requested that the Leader of the Council endorsed the three pledges of the Campaign Champions. MLMC asked the County Council to concentrate its efforts on these commitments to support individuals with learning disabilities.  T

he three pledges were:

·     Pledge 1: Social Care – Workforce and Support

·     Pledge 2: Education and Employment

·       Pledge 3: Good Places to Live.

Councillor Tim Bearder, Cabinet Member for Adults, presented the report.

My Life, My Choice representatives presented their priorities and expectations for partnership, focusing on empowerment, inclusion, and co-production.

The Cabinet formally acknowledged and endorsed the compact, agreeing to work with My Life, My Choice on the three pledges aligned with the Learning Disability Plan, and noted that the commitment may be reviewed depending on local government reorganisation outcomes.

Councillor Bearder moved and Councillor Leffman seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:-

a)    Acknowledge and endorse this report developed with My Life My Choice (MLMC) Campaign Champions.

b)    Confirm the council’s commitment to work with the MLMC Community Champions on the three pledges that they have set out as part of the Councillor Deal where these fall within the council’s remit and where they are within the scope of the Oxfordshire Learning Disability Plan 2025-2035 (see annex 1a and 1b).

Following endorsement, the Cabinet agreed to a short break to sign the compact and take a commemorative photograph, marking the formalisation of the partnership.