Agenda

Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in the business to be discussed and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

The minutes of the meeting held on 12 November 2007, have been circulated to Members and the Cabinet is asked to approve them as a correct record.

Councillor Draycott submits a report that seeks Cabinet endorsement of spending proposals by Area Committees. Cabinet is recommended to agree the expenditure proposals and note the funding report in Appendix B to the report.

Councillor Dempster submits a report that updates Cabinet on the progress of the Education Inclusion Strategy. Cabinet is recommended to note progress detailed in the report in relation to the Inclusion Strategy.

The relevant minute extract of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board held on 8 November 2007 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Dempster submits a report that informs Cabinet of developments around Corporate Parenting. Cabinet is recommended to note the progress made towards developing Corporate Parenting across the City Council, to recommend that all political parties engage with and are represented on the Corporate Parenting Forum, that a report on all aspects of Corporate Parenting be considered on a quarterly basis, and that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board receives a progress report at a future meeting highlighting the developments arising from the White Paper on Children in Care.

The relevant minute extract from the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board on 11 October 2007 is attached.

Councillor Kitterick submits a report that seeks Members’ approval of appropriation of the Morledge Street site for planning purposes. Cabinet is also asked to authorise the Corporate Director, Resources to agree the terms and payment of any claims for compensation arising, in consultation with the Cabinet Lead for Strategy, Finance, Property & Communications and the Corporate Director, Regeneration & Culture.

AGENDA

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO NOTE

Under the law, the Cabinet is entitled to consider certain items in private.  Members of the public will be asked to leave the meeting when such items are discussed.

The Cabinet is recommended to consider the following reports in private on the grounds that they contain ‘exempt’ information as defined by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, as amended and consequently that the Cabinet makes the following resolution:-

“that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following reports in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because they involve the likely disclosure of 'exempt' information, as defined in the Paragraph detailed below of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act and taking all the circumstances into account, it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Paragraph 3

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Councillor Willmott submits a report.