Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary 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 Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting and must not participate in discussion of the matter or vote on the matter unless granted a dispensation by the Monitoring officer or by the Governance and Audit Committee.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 14 March 2017.

The minutes of the meeting on 14 March 2017 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

The Executive considered the following items.  The decisions are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below:

To note the successful outcome from an innovation bid, securing funding to implement a Family Safeguarding Model of working within two social work teams within Children Social Care and to outline the timescales for the implementation.

RESOLVED that:

1          Plans to transform the work within two Children’s Social Care teams in Bracknell Forest and to deliver services on a multi-agency basis from September 2017 be noted.

2          A further report on progress be received in Spring/Summer 2018.

To inform the Executive of schools’ end of year results for the academic year 2015-16, key policy developments which have taken place over the year and the priorities for the work of the School Improvement Service for the academic year 2016-17.

RESOLVED that:

1          School results for the academic year 2015-16 be noted; and,

2          The policy developments and the priorities for the School Improvement Service for the academic year 2016-17 be endorsed.

To inform the Executive of a finding of maladministration with injustice by the Local Government Ombudsman against the Council.

RESOLVED that:

1          No further action be taken in relation to the matter set out in the Monitoring Officer’s report.

2          The fact that a copy of this report has been circulated to all members of the Council be noted.

3          The draft report of the Executive (Appendix B to the Monitoring Officer’s report) be approved.

To inform the Executive of the performance of the Council over the third quarter of the 2016-17 financial year (October - December 2016).

RESOLVED that the performance of the Council over the period from October - December 2016 highlighted in the Overview Report in Annex A to the Chief Executive’s report be noted.

To approve the Council’s Equality Scheme 2017-20.

RESOLVED that the Council’s Equality Scheme 2017-20 attached at Annex A to the Director of Corporate Services’ report be approved for publication.