Agenda

To receive disclosures of personal interest from Members in accordance with the Code of Conduct

Note:

1.    Members are requested to identify the item number and subject matter that their interest relates to and signify the nature of the personal interest: and

2.    Where Members withdraw from a meeting as a consequence of the disclosure of a prejudicial interest they must notify the Chairman when they leave.

To receive the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on the 23^rd October 2023 as an accurate record.

To receive the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Group Director of Finance, Digital and Frontline Services, which provides Cabinet with an update on operational decisions and base budget reduction measures which have already been identified and the consequential financial implications which can now be factored into the Council’s budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan. 

To receive the report of the Director of Highways, Streetcare and Transportation Services, which seeks Cabinet’s approval to initiate a consultation with interested parties and relevant stakeholders in respect of a proposed new Home to School Transport Policy as detailed in the report.

To receive the report of the Director of Education and Inclusion Services, which seeks permission to consult on the introduction of a charge for the additional childcare element which is available prior to the commencement of free breakfast club provision in primary and special schools in Rhondda Cynon Taf, noting Free School Meal Scheme (eFSM) pupils would be exempt from any charge.

To receive the report of the Director of Social Services, which informs the Cabinet of the outcome of the consultation on the proposed co-produced Day Services Strategy and operating model for people with a learning disability. It also sets out recommendations regarding the next steps for the remodelling of the Council’s Day Services in line with the day service strategy and operating model.

To receive the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Group Director, Finance, Digital & Frontline Services formally setting out the Council Tax Base for the financial year 2024/25.

To receive the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Group Director of Finance, Digital and Frontline Services, which provides Members with an overview of the Council’s performance, both from a financial and operational perspective, based on the first six months of this financial year (to the 30th September 2023).

To receive the report of the Service Director of Democratic Services and Communication, which provides Cabinet with the Annual Report of the Corporate Parenting Board for the Municipal Year 2022/23.

To receive the report of the Director of Highways, Streetcare and Transportation Services, which sets out the supplementary capital programme for Highways, Transportation and Strategic Projects following the approval of additional 2023/24 investment by Council on 20^th September 2023.

To receive the report of the Director of Social Services presenting Cabinet with the final draft of the Director of Social Services Annual Report for 2022/23 for approval prior to its publication.

To receive the report of the Service Director, Democratic Services and Communication, providing the feedback and comments of the items that were pre-scrutinised by the Council’s thematic Scrutiny Committee’s following its last Committee cycle.

“That the press and public be excluded from the meeting under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act (as amended) for the following items of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of the exempt information as defined in paragraph 14 of Part 4 of the Schedule 12A of the Act”.

To receive the exempt report of the Director of Corporate Estates, which seeks to provide an interim update on progress for the management of the Council’s land and buildings portfolio until a future Corporate Asset Management Plan (2024-2030) is approved by Cabinet.

To consider any urgent business as the Chairman feels appropriate.