Decisions

Resolved

That Cabinet endorses the Annual Education sufficiency Update 2020 and the

proposed schemes to ensure sufficiency of school places in Warwickshire.

Agreed

Resolved

That Cabinet:

1.  Welcomes the Warwickshire Safeguarding Annual Report for 2019-2020 (Appendix) and notes the progress that Warwickshire Safeguarding has made in its transition to its new partnership arrangements and the progress that has been made to strengthen assurance activities and learning and development opportunities,

2.  Notes the progress made against the strategic priorities and how partner agencies have collaborated to support vulnerable members of our communities to be supported to be independent and safe,

3.  Asks the Strategic Director for People to implement arrangements for continuing to raise awareness, understanding and ownership of the

safeguarding agenda across the Council.

Resolved

That Cabinet:

a)       Notes the forecast underspend of £4.784m 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 £2.694m.

c)        Notes the increases to the approved 2020/21 capital programme of £0.363m since the programme was last reported in Quarter 1.

d)       Approves the carry forward of the reprofiled spend on the capital programme of £7.847m in 2020/21 into future years.

e)       Acknowledges that at the date of writing this report, the National Lockdown commencing on 5 November had not been announced.  As such, it is important to note that the inevitability of potentially significant changes to the forecast position. This will be driven by changes to Covid related income and expenditure pressures and also Covid funding changes.

Resolved

That Cabinet:  

1)  Approves £0.238 million from the Capital Investment Fund for the purchase of Waste Containers at the Household Waste Recycling Centres and add to the Capital Programme;

2)  Approves £0.810 million from the Capital Investment Fund for the replacement of 15 Bus Fleet vehicles (Home to School Transport) and add to the Capital Programme at a cost of £0.885 million, with the remainder funded from capital receipts generated from the disposal of existing vehicles;

3)  Approves £0.660 million from the Capital Investment Fund to redevelop and upgrade three WCC owned Gypsy and Traveller sites at Griff Hollows, Pathlow and Alvecote, and add to the Capital Programme;

4)  Approves £0.512 million from the Capital Investment Fund to create office space at Holly Walk, Leamington at a cost of £1.012 million, with £0.500 million funded from CWLEP grant and add to the Capital Programme; and

5)  Authorises 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.

The minutes of the previous meeting were agreed as an accurate record.

Resolved

That the Cabinet notes the Treasury Management activity and

performance in respect of the first six months of 2020/21.

Resolved

That Cabinet:

1)        Agrees that there is a need to extend and improve gigabit digital connectivity across Warwickshire and approves and adopts the Digital Infrastructure Strategy (at Appendix C) to support the Council Plan 2020 – 2025, the Council’s Covid–19 Recovery Plan and the Warwickshire Place

Shaping Programme.

2)         Agrees to establish a Digital Connectivity Board supported by a Digital Infrastructure Team (as set out at paragraph 5.2 and subject to funding being available) to develop and promote a Digital Infrastructure Programme for and to coordinate and manage the deployment of full fibre connectivity and 5G mobile networks across Warwickshire.

3)       Authorises the Strategic Director for Resources to develop the governance and project management arrangements for the Digital Infrastructure Programme in line with the objectives of the Digital Infrastructure Strategy and the Council Plan 2020 – 2025 and the requirements of the constitution.

Resolved:

That Cabinet notes  the progress of the delivery of the Council Plan 2020

- 2025 for the period as contained in the report.

Resolved

That the Warwickshire COVID 19 Recovery Plan, which for this year only replaces the more regular Youth Justice Plan, is approved by Cabinet.