Decisions

Recommendations:    To approve the submission and publication of the Flood Risk Management Plan Measures.

The Leader APPROVED the submission and publication of the Flood Risk Management Plan Measures

Recommendations:               

1.      To procure a managed Integrated Community Equipment Service contract with an enhanced specification building on the successes of the previous contract

2.      To utilise a sole provider framework as a contracting model.  This will enable our Integrated Care System (ICS) partners to ‘call off’ against the framework

3.      To establish an updated S.75 arrangement between the Council and CCG ensuring agreement is compliant with current legislation and that the management structures proposed are mutually agreeable to each party

4.      To delegate the decision to award a contract to the successful bidder and final sign-off of the updated S.75 agreement to the appropriate authorised officer

The Leader AGREED:

1.         To procure a managed Integrated Community Equipment Service contract with an enhanced specification building on the successes of the previous contract

2.         To utilise a sole provider framework as a contracting model.  This will enable our Integrated Care System (ICS) partners to ‘call off’ against the framework

3.         To establish an updated S.75 arrangement between the Council and CCG ensuring agreement is compliant with current legislation and that the management structures proposed are mutually agreeable to each party

4.         To delegate the decision to award a contract to the successful bidder and final sign-off of the updated S.75 agreement to the appropriate authorised officer

The governing board are proposing that from 1 April 2021 the school's age range is changed from 3-11 to 4-11 and that the nursery provision is then run by a joint governor and staff committee.  Under Department for Education (DfE) section 27 regulations schools are required to hold a public consultation if they wish to run their nursery provision under these regulations. The school is therefore consulting its parents, staff, nearby schools, child minders and the local community on the proposed change. The governing board will review the outcome of the consultation and if there is support for the proposal they will then publish a statutory notice. This will enable people to comment on, support or object to the proposal. The notice period runs for 4 weeks and after the period expires the LA has 8 weeks to decide on whether to agree to the proposal.

Recommendation: The Leader is recommended to agree to the proposal by the governing board of Overstone School that from April 2021 the school changes its age range from 3-11 to 4-11 years of age. This would enable the school to run its Early Years provision under the Department for Education’s section 27 regulations. The school is a maintained Local Authority (LA) school.

Recommendations:                         To approve the proposed fees

Recommendations:                Approval of the following changes:

·       the removal of off-peak seasonal charges across all three parks

·       an increase of 10p on the peak tariff (which will now apply year-round)

·       a £10 increase to the annual permit charge

·       removal of the separate charge for minibuses or coaches, to simplify the system for visitors and to acknowledge that these vehicles are unable to use some of our car parks.

Cabinet received a report on the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Strategy 2021 – 23 and the associated SEND Improvement Plan.

RESOLVED that the updated Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Strategy 2021 – 23 (Appendix 1), and the associated SEND Improvement Plan (Appendix 2) be approved.

Cabinet were asked to consider Buckinghamshire Council’s proposed response to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Right to Regenerate consultation.

RESOLVED that

1)      the draft response to the Right to Regenerate consultation be agreed; and

2)      authority be delegated to the Corporate Director for Planning, Growth and Sustainability, in consultation with the relevant Cabinet Members and Leader of the Council, to submit the final response, incorporating any further changes after the Cabinet meeting.

Proposed disposals

Cabinet were asked to consider the disposal of the freeholds of Collins House and 30 -34 Oxford Road in High Wycombe for regeneration purposes.

RESOLVED-

1)        To dispose of the freehold of Collins House, Wycombe for redevelopment as affordable housing. 

2)        To facilitate the development of a new town centre building by Bucks Colleges, by way of the disposal of the freehold of 30 -34 Oxford Road, Wycombe to them.

3)        That the Director of Property and Assets be authorised, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Property and Assets and the S151 Officer, to finalise detailed heads of terms for the disposal, agree the sale contracts, and to exchange and complete the disposal based on the heads of terms set out in the Confidential appendix.

Cabinet was asked to consider the recommendations of the Communities and Localism Select Committee Inquiry into the effectiveness of covid-19 grants.

RESOLVED -

Cabinet agreed responses to the Select Committee Inquiry and its recommendations, a complete breakdown of which can be found here

Cabinet were asked to consider a report on the future highways service contract.

RESOLVED that

1)      the proposed operating and procurement model and associated timescales in terms of the future delivery of this key service, ranked as ‘Platinum Plus’, be agreed;

2)      the increase in the capacity of the existing client team to meet the needs of procuring the new contract and thereafter manage and deliver the service as proposed be noted; and

3)      the new Governance arrangements and Programme which has been put in place to administer and deliver this procurement project be noted.

Following the issuing of a Section 114 notice by Croydon LBC, the Cabinet received a report which reviewed the findings of the recent public interest report over Croydon’s financial failures, together with other reported issues around financial sustainability in local government, which has been exacerbated as a result of Covid-19.

RESOLVED that

1.         the contents of the report, including appendix 1, which sets out the Buckinghamshire Council position compared to the key finding from the LB Croydon public interest report be noted; and                                                                      

2.         the proposed actions in Appendix 2 to further strengthen financial management arrangements across the Council be agreed.

Cabinet received a report on the Buckinghamshire Council Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector Strategic Framework.

RESOLVED that the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector Strategic Framework, included at appendix A, be approved.

Recommendations:   

The Leader is asked to:

·       Approve the decision to go out to tender for the Supported Living Procurement Vehicle.

·       Agree that the award of contract should be a delegated officer decision.

The Leader:

·       APPROVED the decision to go out to tender for the Supported Living Procurement Vehicle.

·       AGREED that the award of contract should be a delegated officer decision.