Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies and Announcements

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from County Councillor Alan Hosker.

 

County Councillors Stephen Clarke, Michael Green and Sobia Malik joined the meeting virtually.

2.

Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests

Minutes:

None declared.

3.

Question Time pdf icon PDF 6 KB

Questions submitted under Standing Order B28.

Minutes:

County Councillor Matthew Salter asked his question as follows:

 

No.

Question From

Subject

For Answer By

1.

County Councillor Matthew Salter

Recovery of Nature in Lancashire

Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change

 

County Councillor Shaun Turner, Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change, replied.

4.

Confirmation of the Minutes from the Meeting held on 16 December 2021 and from the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 24 January 2022 pdf icon PDF 328 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Resolved: - That the Minutes of the Meeting held on 16 December 2021 and of the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 24 January 2022 be confirmed and signed by the Chairman.

5.

Report of the Cabinet (Part A) - Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2021-22 pdf icon PDF 117 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor Sue Whittam moved a report asking Full Council to consider the recommendations of the Cabinet in respect of the Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2021-22.

 

Resolved: - That the Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2021-22, now presented, be noted.

 

6.

Members' Allowance Scheme 2022/23 pdf icon PDF 235 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor Alan Vincent moved a report asking Full Council to approve the 2022/23 Members' Allowance Scheme as presented at Appendix 'A'.

 

Resolved: - That the 2022/23 Members' Allowance Scheme, as set out at Appendix 'A' to the report, now presented, be approved.  

7.

Localism Act 2011 - Pay Policy Statement 2022/23 pdf icon PDF 173 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor Alan Vincent moved a report asking Full Council to approve the council's proposed 2022/23 Pay Policy Statement, as presented at Appendix 'A'.

 

Resolved: - That:

 

(i)  The proposed Pay Policy Statement for 2022/23, as set out at Appendix 'A' to the report, now presented, be approved.

(ii)  Agreement be given that, should it be required, the application of the uplifted Foundation Living Wage rate for 2022/23, may be delayed until a national pay agreement for Local Government Services for 2021/22 is reached but backdated to 1 April 2022, as set out in the report, now presented.

(iii)  Subject to the views of the recognised trades unions, it be agreed that the method by which the Foundation Living Wage is paid moves to a supplement model by April 2023, as set out in the report, now presented.

 

8.

Financial Threshold for Key Decisions pdf icon PDF 218 KB

Minutes:

County Councillor Alan Vincent moved a report asking Full Council to approve the financial threshold above which decisions should be treated as Key Decisions as defined in Standing Order C19 (1) (a).

 

Resolved: - That the financial threshold for Key Decisions, for the purposes of Standing Order C19 (1) (a), as set out in the report, now presented, be increased to £1.8m for 2022/23. 

 

9.

Urgent Business

An item of urgent business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the Minutes, the Chairman is of the opinion that the item should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency.  Wherever possible, the Chief Executive should be given advance warning of any Member’s intention to raise a matter under this heading.

Minutes:

There was no urgent business to be considered.

10.

Report of the Cabinet (Part B) pdf icon PDF 194 KB

Minutes:

County Councillor Phillippa Williamson moved the report of the Cabinet from its meetings on 20 January 2022 and 3 February 2022.

 

Resolved: - That the report of the Cabinet, now presented, be noted.

11a

The Audit, Risk and Governance Committee pdf icon PDF 20 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor Alan Schofield moved the report of the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee from its meeting on 31 January 2022.

 

Resolved: - That the report of the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee, now presented, be noted.

11b

The Employment Committee pdf icon PDF 20 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor Phillippa Williamson moved the report of the Employment Committee from its meetings on 6 December 2021 and 26 January 2022.

 

Resolved: - That the report of the Employment Committee, now presented, be noted.

11c

The Overview and Scrutiny Committees pdf icon PDF 22 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor David O'Toole moved the report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees from their meetings as follows:

 

Education and Children's Services Scrutiny Committee - 7 December 2021 and 18 January 2022

External Scrutiny Committee - 29 November 2021 and 11 January 2022

Health Scrutiny Committee - 1 February 2022

Internal Scrutiny Committee - 21 January 2022

 

Resolved: - That the report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees, now presented, be noted.

11d

The Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board pdf icon PDF 20 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor Sue Whittam moved the report of the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board from its meeting on 25 January 2022.

 

Resolved: - That the report of the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board, now presented, be noted.

12.

Report of the Lancashire Combined Fire Authority pdf icon PDF 19 KB

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Minutes:

County Councillor David O'Toole moved the report of the Lancashire Combined Fire Authority from its meeting on 13 December 2021.

 

Resolved: - That the report of the Lancashire Combined Fire Authority, now presented, be noted.

13.

To consider Notices of Motion Submitted under Standing Order B36 pdf icon PDF 196 KB

Minutes:

1.  It was moved by County Councillor Andrea Kay and seconded by County Councillor Rupert Swarbrick that:

 

Lancashire County Council highly commends the work done by all those involved with the SEND Partnership Board to address the 12 areas of concern that were highlighted by Ofsted following its inspection of the council and its partners in early 2017.  Lancashire County Council, along with partners from Health, Parents and Young People worked together and at considerable pace to reduce this number to five following the inspection immediately before the pandemic. The Department for Education placed us under monitoring with regular reviews and at the final review meeting late last year, they concluded that we have made sufficient progress to no longer require future monitoring visits as the areas of concern once again stands at 0.

 

There is much more we want to do to continue to improve our provision and a follow-up development plan is currently being agreed with our partners.

 

This council requests that the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet Member for Education and Skills write to staff, partners, and all those in Lancashire who have worked so hard to improve the lives of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and their families to thank them for all their efforts.

 

On being put to the vote, the Motion was CARRIED and it was therefore:

 

Resolved: - That:

 

Lancashire County Council highly commends the work done by all those involved with the SEND Partnership Board to address the 12 areas of concern that were highlighted by Ofsted following its inspection of the council and its partners in early 2017.  Lancashire County Council, along with partners from Health, Parents and Young People worked together and at considerable pace to reduce this number to five following the inspection immediately before the pandemic. The Department for Education placed us under monitoring with regular reviews and at the final review meeting late last year, they concluded that we have made sufficient progress to no longer require future monitoring visits as the areas of concern once again stands at 0.

 

There is much more we want to do to continue to improve our provision and a follow-up development plan is currently being agreed with our partners.

 

This council requests that the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet Member for Education and Skills write to staff, partners, and all those in Lancashire who have worked so hard to improve the lives of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and their families to thank them for all their efforts.

 

2.  It was moved by County Councillor Azhar Ali and seconded by County Councillor Julie Gibson that:

 

Transport for the North

 

Council expresses its concern that the recent Integrated Rail Plan falls short of delivering a first-class service for Lancashire and that, in comparison to other areas, Lancashire, loses out.

 

Council will:

 

(i)  Call for an immediate meeting with the Department for Transport to discuss our concerns.

(ii)  Support an all-party delegation including Borough  ...  view the full minutes text for item 13.