Agenda and minutes

1.1       RESOLVED:

That the exempt minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 8 February 2010 be confirmed and signed as an accurate record of the proceedings, and that the outstanding actions be noted.

2.1       Apologies for Absence were received from Councillors Nicholas Botterill and Sarah Gore.

If a Councillor has any prejudicial or personal interest in a particular report he/she should declare the existence and nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of the item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a prejudicial interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken, unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

Where members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance, then the Councillor with a prejudicial interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration, unless the disability has been removed by the Standards Committee.

3.1       There were no declarations of interest.

RESOLVED:

1.   To approve the changes to the capital programme as set out in Appendix 1.

2.  To approve a revenue virement totalling £757,000 as set out in Appendix 2.

RESOLVED:

That the Council :

1.  Acts as accountable body for the ‘Employing Partners’ third sector partnership FJF bid and enters into a contract with the Department of Work and Pensions to deliver 65 jobs, training and employment support services funded by £422,500 DWP/FJF funding for this purpose.

2.  Uses ‘Employing Partners’ FJF funding to commission third sector agencies through service level agreements to create new jobs and employ job seekers allowance claimants (JSA) in line with FJF criteria.

3.  Directly employs 80 JSA claimants as part of a second FJF scheme (West London Working) and enters into a contract with LB Ealing, accountable body for this scheme, to secure full reimbursement of £221,080 after three months employment from their agreed DWP/FJF funding.

RESOLVED:

1.  To support the framework for prevention and early intervention as set out in this report, and to agree to reserve £685,000 to implement a predictive risk modelling system.

2.  To award a grant of £50,000 in 2010 and £50,000 in 2011 to The Stroke Association to support strokes prevention and reablement.

3.  That authority be delegated to the Director of Community Services, in conjunction with the Leader, to award grant funding of up to £685,000 over the next 3 years for the provision of a Low-Level In-Home Support Service as described in paragraph 13 of the report.

4.  That expenditure on the above initiatives, totalling £1.470m, be met from PCT Health Gain funding of £0.340m and available Social Care grants of £1.130m.

The meeting received a briefing note highlighting the outcome of the second stage of residents’ consultation as part of the Fulham Court Estate Improvement project.  The meeting was informed that residents had declared their preferred location for the combined Children’s & Community Centre on Fulham Court Estate.

RESOLVED:

1.     That approval be given to the implementation of a combined Children’s Centre and Community Centre to be located within the boundary of Fulham Court or Barclay Close Estates(subject to any necessary statutory consents and the outcome of comprehensive resident consultation).

2.     To authorise the Chief Executive of H& F Homes and the Chief Executive of the Council to finalise the location of the Centre in conjunction with the Cabinet Members for Housing and Children’s Services.

3.      To approve a programme of consultation with residents to evaluate the possibility of physical estate improvement.

4.      To agree to earmark £4.057m of funding from the HRA Disposal Receipts over the years 2009/2013 to enable the works programme to proceed, subject to detailed resident consultation and further approval, and to agree the provisional annual budgets across the 2009/2013 years as shown in the body of the report to Cabinet on 11 January 2010 (subject to confirmation at tender approval stage) and that £0.450m of grant funding be applied regarding the provision of a Children’s Centre.

5.      To approve the delegation to H&F Homes of the responsibility for the development and delivery of the physical improvement programme, subject to detailed approval being sought to the final scheme from the Cabinet.

The Forward Plan was noted.

The summary was noted.

The Cabinet is invited to resolve, under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following items of business, on the grounds that they contain the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in paragraph 3of Schedule 12A of the said Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption currently outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

RESOLVED:

That under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the remaining items of business on the grounds that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of a person (including the authority) as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption currently outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

[The following is a public summary of the exempt information under S.100C (2) of the Local Government Act 1972.  Exempt minutes exist as a separate document.]

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 8 February 2010 be confirmed and signed as an accurate record of the proceedings, and that the outstanding actions be noted.