Agenda item

Report deferred.

The Leader stated that the approval of the SCF business plan was to be deferred to September Cabinet to enable more background work to be done to support the proposals and secure the approval of the Best Value Commissioners.

A Member had submitted a question on the report under the Executive Procedure Rules and the Leader agreed that this could be put to the meeting despite the deferral of the report.  Councillor Hulme asked the Lead Member for children’s services about engagement with community organisations and how the effectiveness of partnership working would be measured.  The Lead Member responded by listing examples of the organisations that would be engaged and confirmed there would be a set of outcome measures so that performance could be monitored.

Resolved -  That the item be deferred to the September meeting of the Cabinet.