In light of the Government’s instructions on social distancing, all of the Council’s public decision making meetings have been cancelled during this time.  This includes the Cabinet.

Alternative decision making arrangements have been put in place for any decisions which need to be made during the COVID-19 outbreak.   For the Cabinet, decisions will be taken by the Leader of the Council, Councillor Steve Darling. 

All such decisions will be made after consulting the appropriate councillors and decisions and any associated reports will be published on our website.  These arrangements will be kept under review on a regular basis.

The Leader of the Council, by way of the publication of this document, hereby gives notice that he intends to consider the reports contained herein.  Records of the decisions made by the Leader of the Council will be published on our website after the anticipated decision date.

To consider an exempt report which sets out the business cases for the Learning Academy, Edge of Care and Permanence work streams as detailed in the Children’s Services – Sufficiency Strategy.

It is intended that the decision will be made on or after the 21 April 2020.