Agenda and minutes

Apologies from Councillor Jim Couchman (Councillor Louise Chapman substituting in a voting capacity);

Fenella Trevillion, Oxfordshire PCT (Martin Mellors substituting in a non-voting capacity); and,

Graham McCartney, Thames Valley Probation Service (Duncan Hume substituting in a non-voting capacity).

None.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 11 December 2010 (SP3) and to receive for information any matters arising therefrom.

Agreed and signed.

Members of the public may speak on a matter included on the agenda by giving notice to the Contact Officer by the deadline of 9.00 am on the morning before the meeting.

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None.

The budget monitoring report for 2009-10 attached at SP5(a) covers the first ten months of the financial year and shows the overall picture client group by client group. The report shows the Administering Authority forecasts a surplus of £602,696k compared with the original budget surplus of £439,567k. SP5(b) gives information by District.

The report attached at SP5(c) explains that the change in the forecast surplus is less than one percent of forecast annual expenditure and is the net result of various changes, some of them reflecting the inherent uncertainty relating to forecasting both void levels and the results of means-tests for services on what are called “block subsidy” contracts; others due to some new services not starting this year.

Noted.

A paper is attached at SP6(a) reminding the Commissioning Body of the requirements in the Memorandum of Understanding regarding the contents of the Annual Plan.

The Core Strategy Group at its meeting on 3 March discussed a draft Annual Plan 2010-11. Officers recommended a list of major projects for 2010-11 attached at SP6(b)and a budget proposing the amount to be spent on each primary client group attached at SP6(c).

A paper setting out further details about this annual plan and budget is attached at SP6(d).

The Core Strategy Group RECOMMENDS that the Commissioning Body approves the Annual Plan 2010-11.

Agreed the Annual Plan 2010-11.

Oxfordshire Supporting People Strategy would be reviewed in 2010-11 with a view to set strategic and financial objectives for the programme in 2011-2014. As part of this review, two key administrative elements of the programme - the eligibility criteria and charging policy would also be reviewed.

The Commissioning Body members have requested an early consideration of a range of new flexibilities available to the partnership in managing the programme in future years. Key areas of flexibility are summarised in a paper attached at SP7.  This paper aims to facilitate this discussion and assist the members in providing a steer to the officers regarding the content and format of the strategy review.    

The Supporting People Commissioning Body agreed:

     (i)            to send a robust report to the Public Service Board (PSB) of the Oxfordshire Partnership setting out an analysis of needs, pressures, etc. in order better to inform the PSB of the work of the Commissioning Body; and,

   (ii)            to receive a report at the June meeting setting out the process and timetable for agreeing a new 5-year Strategy (3 years then optional re-fresh for 2 years) for 2011/12 – 2015/16.

A table is attached at SP8(a) showing progress against the Annual Plan and a report attached at SP8(b) gives further information about any items in the Annual Plan which the administering authority is not on track to deliver.

Noted.

A table is attached at SP9 showing Oxfordshire’s performance on National Indicators 141 and 142.

The table shows how the performance of Oxfordshire’s services in the first quarter of 2009-10 compares with the regional and national averages. This comparison is based on a government analysis which is circulated some months after the end of each quarter.

Most long term services and short term services are performing better.

Noted.