Meeting documents

Details of all Members’ 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.

The Committee is asked to confirm the minutes are accurate.

The Committee agreed that the minutes of the meeting held on 15 November  were acceptable and signed by the Chairman.

The Chairman will allow members of the public to ask a question or make a statement about any matter on the agenda for this meeting. These questions may be taken during the meeting, when the relevant agenda item is considered, at the Chairman’s discretion.  

The Chair of the Committee invited Mrs Adlam, Chair and Trustee of the Friends of Somerset Young Carers, to speak.

She noted that the Friends Charity have several concerns regarding the on-going provision of support for Young carers going forwards and have the following comments regarding the briefing paper  ...  view the full minutes text for item 25.

To discuss any items for the forthcoming work programme. To assist the discussion, the following documents are attached:

a) – The Cabinet’s latest published forward plan;

b) – Current Work Programme for the Committee;

c) – Outcome Tracker.

The Chair of the Committee invited Members to consider the Cabinet’s Forward Plan of proposed key decisions in forthcoming months and suggest any items for the Committee to consider. The plan was noted.

The Chair directed attention to the Committee’s own work programme and invited suggestions for possible future agenda  ...  view the full minutes text for item 26.

To consider this report.

The Committee considered this report that provided an update on the support arrangements for Young Carers since the Cabinet agreed a different approach last May. The new vision was explained to provide better identification of and better support and engagement for young carers across Somerset.

It was noted that the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 27.

To consider this report.

The Committee considered this report that set out the Quarter 2 (month 6) forecast outturn position for 2019/20 for the net Revenue Budget of £327.967m. It also highlighted variances to service budgets, as well as emerging issues, risks, areas of concern and proposed actions to resolve them.

An overview of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 28.

To consider this report.

The Committee considered this report for the first time which provided details of the key measures included in the corporate performance report that related to Children's Services. It set out the key activities and measures used to check performance for the year against the identified priorities. It was noted that  ...  view the full minutes text for item 29.

To consider this report.

The Chair invited the Children and Young People’s (CYP) Improvement Lead from the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to introduce the report and he began providing an overview of the improvements made in the previous planin recent years.

The report also provided a commentary on the development of a new  ...  view the full minutes text for item 30.

The Chairman may raise any items of urgent business.

The Chair, after ascertaining there were no other items of business, thanked all those present for attending and wished everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New Year and closed the meeting at 12.31pm.