Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence and temporary appointments.

See guidance note on the back page.

The Committee is recommended to APPROVE the minutes of the meeting held on 26 June 2026.

Members of the public who wish to speak on an item on the agenda at this meeting can attend the meeting in person or ‘virtually’ through an online connection.

Requests to speak must be submitted no later than 09.00 three working days before the meeting, i.e., Friday 18 September, 2026.

Requests should be submitted to the Scrutiny Officer at 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, then your views can still be taken into account. A written copy of your statement can be provided no later than 9am on the day of the meeting. Written submissions should be no longer than 1 A4 sheet.

Where there are a number of requests from persons wishing to present similar views on the same issue, the Chair may require that the views be put by a single spokesperson. It is expected that only in exceptional circumstances will a person (or organisation) be allowed to address more than one meeting on a particular issue in any period of six months.

The public is reminded that the Committee is not a decision-making body and that it cannot investigate individual complaints.  The Committee requests that no individual children are named when addressing the Committee

The Committee has requested a report on the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report.

Cllr Sean Gaul, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Lisa Lyons, Director of Children’s Services, and Laura Gadjus, Business Manager: OSCP, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is asked to CONSIDER the report, to RAISE any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

The Committee has requested a report on harm outside the home and child sex exploitation.

Cllr Sean Gaul, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Lisa Lyons, Director of Children’s Services, and Jessie Dobson, Service Manager: Adolescence and Prevention, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is asked to CONSIDER the report, to RAISE any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

The Committee has requested a report on the Oxfordshire Youth Justice Annual Plan.

Cllr Sean Gaul, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Lisa Lyons, Director of Children’s Services, and Jessie Dobson, Service Manager: Adolescence and Prevention, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is asked to CONSIDER the report, to RAISE any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

The Committee has requested a report on Apprenticeships.

Cllr Sean Gaul, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Lisa Lyons, Director of Children’s Services, and Elaine North, Education, Employment, and Training Manager, have been invited to present the report and to answer the Committee’s questions.

The Committee is asked to CONSIDER the report, to RAISE any questions, and to AGREE any recommendations it wishes to make to Cabinet arising therefrom.

In order to inform its work planning, the Committee has requested an oral update on home to school transport.

The Committee is recommended to AGREE its work programme for forthcoming meetings, having heard any changes from previous iterations, and taking account of the Cabinet Forward Plan and of the Budget Management Monitoring Report.

The Committee is recommended to NOTE the progress of previous recommendations and actions arising from previous meetings, having raised any questions on the contents.

The Committee has not received any responses since its last meeting.