Decisions

Maintain continuity of the Telecare Monitoring and Response Service.

To award a call-off contract for the supply of the Telecare Monitoring and Response Service to Livity Life Limited under an Integrated Community Care Equipment and Associated Services Procurement Services Framework Agreement commissioned by the Commercial Services Group of Kent County Council.

The contract is to replace the contract terminated due to the failure of NRS Healthcare Ltd

It is a three-year contract.

Recommendation approved.

Recommendations approved.

Recommendations approved.

Recommendation approved.

Councillor Levy proposed an amendment to Councillor Kerr’s amendment under CPR 14.1 (vi).  The new amendment was accepted by the proposer and seconder of the original amendment.

Council voted to take the new amendment with 39 votes in favour, 21 against and no abstentions.

The amendment was carried with 40 votes in favour, 21 against and no abstentions.

The motion as amended was carried with 40 votes in favour, 21 against and no abstentions.

The Children’s Society notes that transport poverty exacerbates other inequalities, with children from low-income families potentially missing out on school trips, extracurricular activities, or suffering poor school attendance. A and a 2025 report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies similarly identified that young people’s mobility is closely tied to long-term social and economic outcomes.

The Council notes that it is working with bus companies to improve services in Oxfordshire and thanks them for their support for its schemes to make bus services more reliable, quicker and more extensive.  It would welcome the opportunity to make services more accessible to young people and others. 

This Council notes that there are many transport disadvantaged groups who could significantly benefit from targeted support with public transport, such as those under 18, care leavers and asylum seekers.

This Council, being aware of the levels of child poverty in this county and the effect this has on the ability of families and young people to travel by public transport, asks the Cabinet to set up a Cabinet Advisory Group to consider a scheme for the whole county to provide free or significantly reduced bus travel for children and young people up to age of 18 where the money for such scheme would require substantial funding to be viable and longterm and that this will require funding from central government in addition to Oxfordshire making a contribution were a Workplace Parking Levy to be introduced.

Such a scheme could be funded from fines from ANPR enforcement and would enable children and young people to get to school and college settings by enabling bus companies to develop routes to school that better meet the travel needs of families and children.

This Council notes West of England Mayor Helen Goodwin has funded free travel for children up to 16 this summer.

The motion was carried unanimously.

Recommendation approved.

The amendment proposed by Councillor Leffman and seconded by Councillor Fawcett was agreed unanimously:

Paragraph 7, on the Corporate Parenting Panel: Councillor Ben Higgins to be replaced by Councillor Sean Gaul

The recommendations were approved as amended.

The minutes of the Annual meeting on 20 May 2025 were approved with one amendment:

Item 27/25: paragraph 5, line 5 – replace “Councillor Rooke” with “Councillor Lygo”.

The minutes of the Extraordinary meeting on 20 May 2025 were approved.

Maintain continuity of the integrated community equipment service.

To award a contract for the supply of integrated community equipment to Millbrook Healthcare Limited.  The contract is to replace the contract terminated due to the failure of the Nottingham Rehabilitation Services Healthcare Ltd

It is a three-year contract for the supply of community equipment on behalf of on behalf of OUH as a direct party to the contract and on behalf of ICB and OHFT as partners to the contract.  The service specification agreed clinically by all partners.  The total value of the contract is dependent on the equipment ordered and recycled.