Agenda

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 13 July 2023 (POSC4) and to receive information arising from them.

The Committee is recommended to AGREE the minutes, having first made any necessary amendments.

Members of the public who wish to speak at this meeting can attend the meeting in person or ‘virtually’ through an online connection. To facilitate ‘hybrid’ meetings we are asking that requests to speak are submitted by no later than 9.00 a.m. four working days before the meeting, i.e., 9.00 a.m. on Friday 08 September 2023. Requests to speak should be sent to scrutiny@oxfordshire.gov.uk

If you are speaking ‘virtually’, you may submit a written statement of your presentation to ensure that, if the technology fails, your views can still be taken into account. A written copy of your statement can be provided no later than 9.00 a.m. two working days before the meeting. Written submissions should be no longer than one A4 sheet.

The Education Commission report will be submitted to Cabinet at its meeting on 19 September 2023 and will be published on 11 September 2023.

Gail Tolley, the Independent Chair of the Commission, Cllr Liz Brighouse, Cabinet Member for Children, Education, and Young People’s Services, Stephen Chandler, Interim Executive Director: People, Transformation, and Performance, Anne Coyle, Interim Corporate Director: Children’s Services, and Lynda Poole, Interim Deputy Director: Education, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is recommended to consider the report, to ask any questions and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising from the report and discussion.

The Committee requested a report to understand trends in performance.

Cllr Tim Bearder, Cabinet Member or Adult Social Care, Karen Fuller, Interim Corporate Director: Adult Social Care, and Victoria Baran, Interim Deputy Director of Adult Social Care, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is recommended to consider the report, to ask any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising from the report and discussion.

The Committee requested a report to review progress made against actions in the Digital Inclusion Action Plan over the last year, and to consider the degree to which the actions contributed to the achievement of their intended objectives.

Cllr Glynis Phillips, Cabinet Member for Corporate Services, and Susannah Wintersgill, Director of Communications, Strategy, and Insight, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is recommended to consider the report, to ask any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising from the report and discussion.

It is anticipated that the report following the visit of Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission will have been published before the Committee meets.

In the event that it has, Cllr Liz Brighouse, Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Children, Education, and Young People’s Services, has been provisionally invited to answer questions on the report and will be accompanied by Stephen Chandler, Interim Executive Director: People, Transformation, and Performance; Anne Coyle, Interim Corporate Director for Children’s Services; Lynda Poole, Interim Deputy Director for Education; Jean Kelly, Deputy Director for Children’s Social Care.

The Committee is recommended to consider the report, to ask any questions and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising from the report and discussion.

To consider an updated on previously agreed actions and recommendations.

The Committee is recommended to NOTE the status of current actions and recommendations having raised any questions on their contents.

Report to follow

The Committee is asked to consider the proposed work programme.  In deciding its work programme, the Committee is also asked to consider the relevance of any items on the Cabinet’s Forward Plan.

The Committee is recommended to AGREE its work programme.