Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Leader

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/037

Contact: Tony Cloke, Assistant Head of Legal & Democratic Services Tel (01865) 815314; Sue Whitehead, Committee Services Manager Tel (01865) 810262

Report by Assistant Head of Legal & Democratic Services (CA8).

To consider an appointment to the Learning Disability Partnership Board. .

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to agree the appointment of a member to be the co-chairman of the Learning Disability Partnership on the same basis as other appointments to Standing Advisory Bodies.

Cabinet considered a report on an appointment to the Learning Disability Partnership Board.

Councillor Zoe Patrick, Leader of the Opposition, suggested Councillor Janet Godden for the role, noting that she had at one time been Co-Chairman and that she had all the necessary skills and experience for the post.

The Leader thanked Councillor Patrick for her suggestion and commented that he did not doubt Councillor Godden’s skills. However he was proposing Councillor Neil Owen who also had the necessary skills and would represent the administration .

The Cabinet Member for Children, Young People & Families suggested that if it were possible she would have no objection to Councillor Godden deputising for Councillor Owen.

RESOLVED:                         to agree the appointment of Councillor Neil Owen to be the co-chairman of the Learning Disability Partnership on the same basis as other appointments to Standing Advisory Bodies.