Decisions

That Cabinet:

1)       Approves a £0.150m allocation from the Place Shaping and Capital Feasibility Fund to the Art Challenge for Economic Recovery project.

2)       Supports the progress made on the Economic Recovery Strategy with four projects approved by Corporate Board under the under the authorisation delegated to Chief Executive at a total cost of £0.458m.

3)       Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities to procure and enter any agreements to give effect to the proposals in 1 and 2 on terms and conditions acceptable to the Strategic Director for Resources.

That Cabinet:

a)       Notes the progress of the delivery of the Council Plan 2020 - 2025 for the period as contained in the report.

b)       Agree the proposed changes to the Commissioning Intentions Framework.

That Cabinet:

1.       Agrees that Warwickshire County Council signs up to the Local Digital Declaration.

2.       Endorses the proposed next steps in benefiting from being signatories to the Declaration.

Cabinet:

a)       Notes the forecast overspend of £3.364m for the 2020/21 financial year on the Council’s revenue budget.

b)       Notes there is a forecast under-delivery of the 2020/21 savings requirement to the value of £2.995m.

c)       Approves the transfer of £8.000m revenue underspend in Corporate Services to reserves to provide some capacity to phase the need to deliver additional savings to balance the Medium Term Financial Strategy.

d)       Notes the increases to the approved 2020/21 capital programme of £37.370m since the programme was last reported in March 2020, as part of approved changes totalling £53.900m to the cost and funding of schemes across the length of the programme.

e)       Approves the carry forward of the reprofiled spend on the capital programme of £23.710m in 2020/21 into future years.

That Cabinet:

1.       approves the Council’s Recovery Plan included as Appendix A, subject to actions being costed and affordability assessed against the available investment funds, with any on-going implications being considered in the Medium Term Financial Strategy refresh for 2021/22 onwards; and

2.       approves the next steps for development of the Council Plan for 2021/22.

That Cabinet notes the annual review and summary of upheld complaints issued by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman for the financial year 2019/20.

That Cabinet approves:

1)       £3.615 million from the Capital Investment Fund for relocation work at Kingsway Nursery & Children’s Centre and recommend to Full Council to add to the Capital Programme at a full cost of £5.165 million.

2)       £0.430 million from the Capital Investment Fund for replacement bollards in Stratford, Nuneaton and Bedworth and add to the Capital Programme.

3)       £0.750 million from the Capital Investment Fund for the extension of the small business capital grants scheme and add to the Capital Programme at a full cost of £1.330 million.

4)       £3.025 million from the Capital Investment Fund for improvements to the A3400 Birmingham Road Corridor (Stratford) and recommend to Full Council to increase the existing scheme in the Capital Programme to a full cost of £6.525 million.

5)       £2.002 million from the Capital Investment Fund for improvements to the A446 Stonebridge Junction (Coleshill) and recommend to Full Council to add to the Capital Programme at a full cost of £2.378 million.

6)       £4.682 million from the Capital Investment Fund for improvements to the A429 Coventry Road Corridor (Warwick) and recommend to Full Council to add to the Capital Programme at a full cost of £5.921 million, on the condition that CIL funding is secured from WDC.

7)       £1.968 million from the Capital Investment Fund for procurement of measuring equipment to support evidence led decision making in tackling the climate emergency and air quality and recommend to Full Council to add to the Capital Programme at a full cost of £2.058 million.

8)       The authorisation of the Strategic Director for Communities to procure and enter into any agreements to give effect to the proposals on terms and conditions acceptable to the Strategic Director for Resources.

That Cabinet:

1.       Notes the outcome of the Customer Service Excellence Standard Reaccreditation which took place during January 2020.

2.       Agrees the actions to address the partial compliances and the areas for improvement as outlined in Appendix 3.

3.       Acknowledges the Compliance Plus and Areas of Good Practice as detailed in Appendix 4.

1)       Cabinet approves proceeding with an appropriate procurement process for the provision of a Children’s Therapeutic Interventions Framework on behalf of Adoption Central England.

2)       Cabinet approves and authorises the Strategic Director for People to enter into all relevant contracts for the provision of Children’s Therapeutic Interventions Framework on terms and conditions acceptable to the Strategic Director for Resources.

That Cabinet endorses the following revision to the Home to School Transport   policy:

•         The definition of a pupil’s qualifying school is altered to mean either the closest qualifying school to the pupil’s home address, with places available, that provides education appropriate to the age, ability and aptitude of the pupil and takes in account any special educational needs that pupil may have, or the priority area school in which the pupil resides.  This change would be implemented from publication of the Home to School Transport Policy.

That Cabinet approves the establishment of specialist resourced provision at   Paddox Primary School, Rugby.

That Cabinet:

1.       Supports the Warwickshire Foster Carer Association (WFCA) applying for charitable status.

2.       Approves and authorises the Strategic Director for People to provide the Warwickshire Foster Carer Association with £15,000 towards their set up costs for establishing the charity for the financial year 2020/21 and to make a further payment of £10,000 to the charity for the year 2021/22, subject to terms and conditions acceptable to the Strategic Director for Resources.

That Cabinet endorses the 2019/20 Annual Governance Statement prior to submission to Council for approval.