Agenda and minutes

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or an Affected Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

There were no declarations of interest.

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 11 March 2014.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 11 March 2014 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

The Executive considered the reports submitted on the items listed below and the decisions taken are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below:

RESOLVED that the Children and Young People’s Plan 2014-17 be approved

RESOLVED that, having regard to the equalities screening record appended to the Director of Children, Young People and Learning’s report:

1. The Mainstream Pupil Education Transport Policy 2015/16 be approved
2. The Executive approves the Education Transport Policy for Post 16 students be approved

RESOLVED that:

1. The Executive approves two Contract Standing Order Waivers for a 6 year period with a 3 year review for the ONE and SIMS software applications.  This equates to £1.057m for ONE and £0.486m for SIMS.
2. To approve the commencement of this waiver from 1^st April 2014 to 31^st March 2020.

RESOLVED that:

         i.            That Contract Standing Orders be waived to enable an executive committee, to be appointed by the Leader, to take the decisions in relation to the award of contracts for the construction works to create new school places at:

·         Garth Hill College

·         Owlsmoor Primary School

·         The Pines Primary School

·         The Brakenhale School

       ii.            That the award of the contracts be subject to sufficient resources being available for each project.

      iii.            That the decisions be reported to the next available meeting of the Care Portfolio Review Group.  Any issues arising that fall outside the remit of the Care Portfolio Review Group would be referred to the appropriate Portfolio Review Group

To consider the following motion:

That pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item 10 which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

(4)        Information relating to any consultations or negotiations, or contemplated consultations, or negotiations, in connection with any labour relations matter arising between the authority or a Minister of the Crown and employees of, or office holders under, the authority.

(NB:     No representations have been received in relation to the notice published pursuant to Regulation 5 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012.)

RESOLVED that pursuant to Regulation 21 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2000, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item 6 which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority).

RESOLVED that:

1. the Executive be requested to recommend to the Employment Committee that they apply a Key Staff Retention Payment (“Golden Handcuff”) as set out in Option 2 Model C of the joint report of the Chief Executive and Director of Children, Young People and Learning , the cost of which is added to the 2015-16 Commitment Budget.

       ii.            a review of the structure and job design of Children's Social Care is commissioned to ensure the structure is appropriate to address the operational requirements and long term recruitment and retention issues.

3. That the Department continues to monitor the recruitment and retention situation and adjusts the key staff payments accordingly