Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

26.

Declarations of Interest

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.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

27.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 123 KB

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 26 September 2017. .

 

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 26 September 2017 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

Executive Decisions and Decision Records pdf icon PDF 63 KB

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

28.

Urgent Items of Business

Minutes:

There were no urgent items of business.

29.

Youth Justice Strategic Plan 2017 - 2019 pdf icon PDF 195 KB

To gain the approval of the Executive for the proposed plan for the delivery of Youth Justice services in Bracknell Forest during the period 2017-2019.

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Minutes:

RECOMMENDED: that the Youth Justice Plan 2017-19 be adopted.

30.

Children, Young People & Learning Post Ofsted Action Plan pdf icon PDF 227 KB

To inform Members of the outcome of the recent Ofsted inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers, carried out in May 2017 and published on 14 July 2017, and the proposed Action Plan resulting from this, including the new departmental vision.

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Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

1          That the Ofsted report (Annex 1 of the Director of Children, Young People & Learning’s report) which concludes that the overall effectiveness of Bracknell Forest services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers are good, with areas of outstanding practice be noted.

 

2          That the action plan and departmental vision.be endorsed.

 

3          That the Council’s thanks to partners and staff on the successful outcome of the inspection.be formally recorded.

31.

Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) Annual Report pdf icon PDF 194 KB

To share the Independent Chair’s Draft Annual Report of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 with the Executive.  

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that the key messages and recommendations made in the annual report of the LSCB are noted.

32.

Exclusion of Public and Press

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the 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 8 on the agenda (item 33 on the minutes) 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).

33.

Residential Nursing Care Service Contract Award pdf icon PDF 220 KB

To inform the Executive of the current state of the local nursing care home market and the progress made on sourcing alternative nursing provision at sustainable prices with local nursing home providers.

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that the procurement plan for Adult Social Care, Health and Housing to enter into a maximum of four block contracts to purchase a maximum of twenty two nursing beds with local providers be approved and that the contact award decision be delegated to the Executive Member for Adult Services, Health and Housing.

 

Contact Information

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