Agenda and minutes

Cabinet approved the resignation of the Executive appointments, Councillor Rayment and Galton from Association of Port Health Authorities and the Scrutiny Committee, respectively.

Cabinet approved the appointment of Councillor Letts to the Southampton Admissions Forum, replacing Councillor Spicer.

Report of the Leader of the Council seeking approval of Supplementary Planning Documents, attached.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 15/16 16307)

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

(i)  to approve the final Supplementary Planning Document for Mineral and Waste Safeguarding (Appendix 1);

(ii)  to approve the final Supplementary Planning Document for Oil and Gas (Appendix 2); and

(iii)  to delegate to the Planning and Development Manager, following consultation with the Leader of the Council, the power to make minor changes or major changes which do not affect Southampton, if needed.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport detailing the final arrangements for the Concessionary Fare Scheme for 2016 including the rate at which bus operators will be reimbursed for concessionary pass travel, attached.

To DECISION MADE: (CAB 15/16 16392)

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

(i)  agree to reimburse bus operators at 49.3% in line with the guidance issued by the Department for Transport.

(ii)  To agree the local enhancements above the statutory minimum.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care seeking approval to proceed with Phase Two of an Integrated Service for Crisis Response, Rehabilitation, Reablement and Hospital Discharge, attached.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 15/16 16414)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care and having received representations from Members of the Council, public and interested parties, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note the consultation feedback and representations received, and after taking into account of the feedback and representations, to approve the implementation of Phase Two of the re-designed Integrated Service for Crisis Response, Rehabilitation, Reablement and Hospital Discharge. This implementation will include the closure of bed-based provision at the City Council facility, Brownhill House and redirection of resources into domiciliary care and more community focussed options of flexible bed based provision e.g. extra care housing.

(ii)  To approve the commissioning of an increasing proportion of domiciliary care from the Council’s new Domiciliary Care Framework (implemented from April 2015) where the unit costs of care are significantly lower; and over time reduce the proportion of care sourced from the Council’s in house Reablement Team (City Care First Support, CCFS) as vacancies occur through natural staff turnover.

(iii)  To approve a formal consultation about future employment/roles with all relevant affected staff in the City Council on the implementation of Phase Two, as set out in paragraph 61 of this report.

(iv)  To delegate authority to Director of Quality and Integration and Service Director: Legal and Governance following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care to do anything necessary to give effect to the Phase Two proposals incorporating any changes resulting from the staff consultation. 

(v)  To approve the inclusion of the Council’s budgets for the Hospital Discharge Team (£0.52m) and the Reablement Team (£1.18m) in the Rehabilitation and Reablement Scheme of the Section 75 Better Care Partnership Agreement Pooled Fund to enable costs and savings to be shared in this way as outlined in paragraph 75.

(vi)  To approve delegated authority to the Section 151 Officer to agree additional investment of up to£0.400M to enable the commencement of the “invest to save” proposals as outlined in paragraphs 88-93.

(vii)  To note the potential to explore further usage or potential disposal of Brownhill House is outside of the remit of this work programme, and will be the subject of a future separate Cabinet report.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Children's Social Care seeking approval of the admission arrangements for Community and Voluntary Controlled Infant, Junior, Primary and Secondary Schools for 2017/18, attached.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 15/16 16449)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Education and Children’s Social Care, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve the Admissions Policies and the Published Admissions Numbers (PANs) for Community and Voluntary Controlled schools and the schemes for coordinating Primary and Secondary admissions for the school year 2017/18 as set out in appendices 1 to 5.

(ii)  To authorise the Service Director, Children and Families Services to take any action necessary to give effect to the admissions policies 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 bring tree surgery works in house, attached.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 15/16 16472)

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

(i)  To terminate the current contract under clause 7.1 of the contract.

(ii)  To authorise the creation of a tree surgery team in line with the structure appended as Appendix 1 to be funded as detailed in Appendix 3.

(iii)  To proceed with the procurement of all vehicles, equipment and relevant sundries relating to a Tree Surgery Team.

(iv)  To note the requirements under TUPE and proceed with any necessary HR procedures to employ any workers qualifying for it.