Agenda and minutes

Cabinet approved the appointment of Councillor Chamberlain as the Council’s Governor representative to King Edward VI School. 

Report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Change outlining the outcome of the statutory consultation on expansion at Springwell School and seeking a decision to authorise the increase in pupil numbers on-roll at Springwell Special School from September 2015, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14381 )

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Change, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note the outcome of statutory consultation as set out in this report;

(ii)  To authorise the increase in pupil numbers on-roll at Springwell (Community Special) School to 128 from 1^st September 2015;

(iii)  To add, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, a sum of £1,400,000 to the Children’s Services Capital programme for the Springwell School Expansion Project funded from the DfE Basic Need Grant;

(iv)  To delegate authority to the Director, People, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Education and Change, to do anything necessary to give effect to the recommendations in this report.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Change seeking approval of the admission arrangements for Community and Voluntary Controlled Infant, Junior, Primary and Secondary Schools for 2016/17, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14442)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Change, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve the Admissions Policies and the Published Admissions Numbers (PANs) for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools; the schemes for coordinating Primary and Secondary admissions for the school year 2016/17 as set out in the appendices 1 to 5.

(ii)  To authorise the Director, People to take any action necessary to give effect to the admissions policy and to make any changes necessary to the admissions policies where required to give effect to any Acts, Regulations or revised Schools Admissions or School Admissions Appeals Codes or binding Schools Adjudicator, Court or Ombudsman decisions whenever they arise.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport seeking approval to spend and to provide details of the Environment and Transport capital programme 2015/16, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 13982)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve capital variations to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme, totalling £1,140,000 in 2015/16, as detailed in Appendix 4.

(ii)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, capital expenditure of £9,740,000 in 2015/16, as detailed in Appendix 2, from the total Environment and Transport Capital Programme of £16,074,000.

(iii)  To note the detail of the projects within the Environment and Capital Programme for 2015/16 to be approved by this report, as set out in Appendix 3.

(iv)  To note the intervention levels for highways maintenance defects in Appendix 5 and agree that these should be retained.

(v)  To note the indicative unclassified roads programme of works for 2016/17 and 2017/18, subject to Council funding decisions as part of the annual budget process for these years. 

Report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care detailing governance arrangements for the Statutory Local Safeguarding Adults Board, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14143)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To adopt the proposed Constitution of the Southampton Local Safeguarding Adult Board, attached at Appendix 1 of the report;

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Head of Legal and Democratic Services following consultation with the Local Safeguarding Adults Board, the Chief Executive and Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care to make any minor amendments to the Constitution as and when necessary; 

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Chief Executive following consultation with the Local Safeguarding Adults Board and Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care to formally appoint an Independent Chair to the Board on an annual basis;

(iv)  To approve entering into a formal Pooled Fund Arrangement attached as a Members’ Room Document to the report with Partners to support the functions of the Board as laid out in Section 43 of the Care Act 2014, noting that the Pooled Fund will total £104,000 of which the Local Authority’s contribution will be £64,500; and

(v)  To delegate authority to the Director, People, following consultation with the lead Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care and the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, to (a) agree the terms and conditions of the pooled fund agreement and (b) to carry out any ancillary actions needed to give effect to this recommendation.

Report of the Leader of the Council seeking approval of the Core Strategy, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14239)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet agreed to recommend to Council that the Core Strategy Partial Review be adopted. (Document 1 in the Members’ Room).

Report of the Leader of the Council seeking adoption to the City Centre Action Plan, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14252 )

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To recommend to Council that the City Centre Action Plan (Document 1 in the Members’ room) is adopted.

(ii)  To recommend that Council endorse the list of Local Plan Review policies that will be replaced by the City Centre Action Plan (set out in Members’ Room Document 1 Appendix 4).

Report of the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure on recommendations for the process of allocating the grants to voluntary organisations budget to March 2019, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14013)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To agree another three year funding cycle using the outcomes based commissioning approach, from April 2016 to March 2019, with a budget of £1,543,980 per year, subject to budget setting each year.

(ii)  To formally give notice to existing three year outcomes-based commissioned grant recipients in April 2015 that their existing funding arrangement will end on 31 March 2016 and any future funding applications will be considered without reference to previous grant allocation.

(iii)  To agree that funding for domestic abuse and sexual violence services from the corporate grants budget between April 2016 and March 2019 will be allocated by the Council’s Integrated Commissioning Unit to commission services within the PIPPA (Prevention, Intervention, Public Protection and Alliance) service model from voluntary organisations.

(iv)  To end Southampton Nuffield Theatre Trust’s current three year funding arrangement one year early, on 31 March 2015, and enter into a new four year funding arrangement with the Nuffield from 01 April 2015 to 31 March 2019, covering both their current activities and the new Arts Complex activities.

(v)  To delegate authority to the Assistant Chief Executive following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure to agree the outcomes grants between April 2016 and March 2019 will be awarded against and to do anything necessary to give effect to the recommendations contained in this report.

Report of the Leader of the Council to approve the principle of the terms of the disposal of West Quay 3 Site B, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14377)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet agreed to delegate authority to the Head of Development, Economy and Housing to approve the detailed terms and conditions necessary to conclude the legal documentation to facilitate the disposal of the site as detailed in this report and undertake all ancillary acts to give effect to this resolution.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Change for a decision to be made for a contract dispute, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14446)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Change, Cabinet agreed the recommendations set out in the confidential report.