Issue - meetings

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Cooke, Senior and Westley.

Apologies also were received from:-

·           Councillor Cleaver and Anu Kapur (Secular Society), who had been invited to attend the meeting for agenda item 15, “Any Other Urgent Business – Ofsted Report on the Inspection of Services for Children In Need of Help and Protection, Children Looked After and Care Leavers and Review of the Effectiveness of the Local Safeguarding Children Board”; and

·           Councillors R Patel and Riyait, who had been invited to attend the meeting for agenda item 15, “Any Other Urgent Business - Senior Management in Adult Social Care”.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Rita Patel and Andy Smith, the previous Director of Social Care and Safeguarding.