Agenda, decisions and draft minutes

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The Cabinet Member is asked to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 16 September 2025 and to receive information arising from them.

The Cabinet Member approved the minutes of the meeting held on 16 September 2025, as an accurate record of the proceedings.

Cabinet Member: Public Health and Inequalities

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/178

Contact: Donna Husband, Head of Public Health Programmes

Donna.husband@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by the Director of Public Health and Communities

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

 a)  Agree to a variation to contract for 0-19 Public Health Nursing Services to 

      Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to cover above expected staff pay  

      costs for the NHS employed staff on Agenda for Change contracts.

The Deputy Director of Public Health and Communities introduced the report

The Cabinet Member considered a report which indicated that the Government had announced that employees who were on Agenda for Change NHS terms and conditions would receive an above inflation pay rise for both 2024/2025 and 2025/2026.

In light of the increased costs, the Council had received uplifts to the public health grant to ensure that public health funded contracts that included staff on Agenda for Change NHS terms and conditions remained sustainable.

RESOLVED to:

Agree to a variation to contract for 0-19 Public Health Nursing Services to Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to cover above expected staff pay costs for  the NHS employed staff on Agenda for Change contracts.