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Council Response to Draft Further Report from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) Re: Mainstream Home to School Transport Decision and Policy

 

 

Meeting: 03/09/2019 - Cabinet (Item 7)

7 Council Response to Draft Further Report from the LGO Re: Mainstream Home to School Transport Decision and Policy

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Background:

 

The Cabinet accepted this exempt report as urgent to enable the Council’s response to be submitted to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) by 12 September 2019.

 

This exempt report provided details of a draft further report submitted by the LGO in response to the decisions of the Cabinet on 11 June 2019 to approve the continued use and application of the Council’s current Education Travel Assistance Policy.

 

It was noted that in line with rule 15.11 of Chapter 4, Part 5 of the Constitution, call in could be waived where any delay likely to be caused by the call-in process would seriously prejudice the Council’s or the public’s interests. In this case, the deadline for the submission of the Council’s response to the LGO was 12 September 2019. The Chairman of the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee agreed that the decisions proposed were reasonable in all the circumstances and to them being treated as a matter of urgency and to waive call in.

 

Decision number:

Decision:

100/2019

The Cabinet reviewed the draft further report from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman and approved the proposed response, as set out in Appendix 6 to the exempt report.

101/2019

The Cabinet agreed that decision no.100/2019 is considered urgent and therefore should not be subject to call in.

 

Reasons:

 

This is set out in paragraph 9.1 of the exempt report.