·         On behalf of Councillor Brown, Leader of the Council, the Assistant Chief Executive has submitted the report of Oxfordshire County Council summarising the work of the Oxfordshire-wide Partnerships.

Council is invited to ask questions of the relevant Board Members on each partnership listed, to comment on, and to note the report.

·         Each ordinary meeting of Council shall normally receive a written report concerning the work of one of the partnerships on which the Council is represented.

The programme of reporting at future meetings is proposed to be:

29 April                      Oxfordshire Children’s Trust Board

Oxfordshire Growth Board

·         As set out in procedure rule 11.16, Members who are Council representatives on external bodies or Chairs of Council Committees who consider that a significant decision or event has taken place, may give notice to the Head of Law and Governance by 1.00 pm on Thursday 23 January that they will present a written or oral report on the event or the significant decision and how it may influence future events. Written reports will be circulated with the briefing note.

This item was taken before the public addresses.

Councillor Iley-Williamson arrived at the start of this item

Council had before it the report of Oxfordshire County Council summarising the work of the Oxfordshire-wide Partnerships.

Councillor Brown introduced the report.

Health and Well Being Board (HWB) sub group Integrated System Delivery Board (ISDB)

Councillor Djafari-Marbini asked whether the ISDB’s operation would lead to crucial decisions on health care delivery being made in private and without the involvement of elected representatives, and be detrimental to the principles of open decision making and democratic involvement.

Councillor Upton replied that there was no intention for the work of the HWB and its subgroups to be opaque. While some meetings would be in private where there was good reason, all formal proceedings of the HWB are held in public and formal reports from the subgroups would be taken in public.

Growth Board and OxLEP

Councillor Simmons noted

Councillor Brown said she would raise these points as appropriate for consideration in the Growth Board and OxLEP’s work and in the developing Oxfordshire 2050 plan.

In reply to a question from Councillor Wolff she said that the Growth Board was not taking forward plans for a strategic infrastructure tariff at this time.

Council noted the report.