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Cabinet Member: Children and Young People

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/089

Contact: Caroline Kelly, Lead Commissioner Start Well

(Caroline.Kelly@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Children’s Services (CMDCYP4)

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services, in consultation with the Deputy Monitoring Officer and Head of Legal and Governance, to extend the YPSA contracts for 18 months from 1^st October 2025 to 30^th April 2027.

The Chair introduced the item to the meeting and thanked officers for making changes from the meeting held on 16 July.

The Chair noted that he had lived experience of these schemes and that it was extremely important to get them right.

It was reiterated that the age change proposed in the report would only affect those children and young people not currently in the scheme.

The Director of Children’s Services confirmed that this was an interim position within a transition phase, as the contracts were due to expire.

The Chair thanked officers for all of their work and agreed to the recommendations in the report.

RESOLVED to:

a)    To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services, in consultation with the Deputy Monitoring Officer and Head of Legal and Governance, to extend the YPSA contracts for 18 months from 1st October 2025 to 30th April 2027.