Agenda and minutes

Any county councillor may, by giving notice to the Proper Officer by 9 am two working days before the meeting, ask a question on any matter in respect of the Cabinet Member’s delegated powers.

The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.

Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time.

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/122

Contact: Ann Nursey, Assistant Head of Adult Social Care (Learning Disabilities) Tel: (01865) 323669

Report by Director for Social & Community Services (CMDAS4).

This paper sets out the current situation and merger/acquisition process for Ridgeway Partnership (Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust) and identifies the key issues for commissioners in Oxfordshire. The proposed approach was discussed at Joint Management Group on 16th June 2011 and with the Chief Executive of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire PCT on 20th June.  The decision whether to agree in principle to include the services purchased by Oxfordshire County Council in the NHS merger and acquisitions process is a key decision, which the lead member for Adult Social Care has agreed to take as a delegated decision.  The second key decision will be approval of the preferred provider and it is proposed that this decision will be taken by Cabinet in early 2012.

The Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)               give agreement to include the services purchased from Ridgeway Partnership by Oxfordshire County Council in the NHS merger/acquisitions process;

(b)              request that the recommendation to appoint a preferred provider to acquire Ridgeway Partnership NHS Trust is brought to Cabinet for approval in early 2012.

The Cabinet Member for Adult Care approved the following:

(a)   to give agreement to include the services purchased from Ridgeway Partnership by Oxfordshire County Council in the NHS merger/acquisitions process; and

(b)   to request that the recommendation to appoint a preferred provider to acquire Ridgeway Partnership NHS Trust is brought to Cabinet for approval in early 2012.