Meeting documents

Details of Cabinet Member interests in District, Town and Parish Councils will be displayed in the meeting room. The Statutory Register of Member’s Interests can be inspected via the Community Governance team.

As there was a large attendance, the Chairman took the opportunity to welcome everybody to the meeting and then preceded to the Wyndham Room next door to welcome those people in there.

Members of the Cabinet declared the following personal interests in their capacity as a Member of a District,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 669.

The minutes of the Cabinet Meeting held on 20 February 2017 were agreed and signed as correct.

The Chairman will allow members of the public to present a petition on any matter within the Cabinet’s remit. Questions or statements about any matter on the agenda for this meeting may be taken at the time when each matter is considered.

There were a number of members of the public who wished to speak about agenda item 5 regarding the Learning Disability and Provider Service (LDPS) and who had submitted questions by the deadline.

The Chairman invited the speakers to put their questions and statements to the Cabinet in the order  ...  view the full minutes text for item 671.

To consider the report

Following consideration of the officer report, presentation and discussion, the Cabinet agreed:

1)    That it did not accept the Scrutiny Committee for Policies for Adults and Health recommendations and that officers would continue to implement the decision agreed by Cabinet in July 2016.

2)    Subject to confirmation from the Section 151 Officer, to increase the Equal Pay Buy-Out fund through appropriate discussions.

The Chairman invited the Chairman of the Scrutiny for Policies, Adults and Health, Cllr Hazel Prior-Sankey to introduce the report and recommendations from the committee. She explained that the Scrutiny Committee felt that there should be a delay in the implementation of the transfer of the Council’s Learning Disability Provider  ...  view the full minutes text for item 672.

Following consideration of the officer’s report, the Equalities Impact Assessment, Appendix A and the debate, the Cabinet RESOLVED to:

1.     Endorse the procurement process and approve the selection of the service provider (Bidder A in Appendix A) to deliver the Carers Support Service from 1 st October 2017 for three years with the option for the Council to agree two further periods of up to 12 months

2.     Agree that Appendix A be treated as exempt information, and treated in confidence, as the case for the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing that information.

The meeting reconvened at 12.18pm.

The Chairman reminded members that although the main report was not confidential, the appendix contained exempt information and if members wished to discuss the information within this then the Cabinet would need to agree the resolution to exclude the press and public.

Carers were a  ...  view the full minutes text for item 673.

To consider the report.

The Cabinet endorsed the Leader of the Council to take forward discussions with wider partners to gauge the degree of support for the approach in the county.

The Chairman invited Rob Williams to speak who said he supported the recommendation and endorsed the proposal. This was important for Somerset’s future.

The discussion paper acknowledged that there had been a good and growing degree of collaboration across Somerset through various partnership arrangements both formal and informal. However there  ...  view the full minutes text for item 674.

The Chairman may raise any items of urgent business.

The Cabinet supported Visit Somerset’s proposed submission of a Wells City of Culture bid and undertook to provide a letter of support along with a supportive press release.

The Chairman introduced John Turner from Visit Somerset and Andrew Fawcett, a Wells Civic Society member and museum trustee who together were working on a proposal for a Wells City of Culture bid. They explained that it had already started to generate a huge amount of interest and support was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 675.