Decisions

The Cabinet Member approved alterations to the allocation of funding across a group of capital projects on Household Waste Recycling Centres to:

i)        move £0.100m from Ashbourne HWRC to Bretby HWRC;

ii)       move £0.100m from Loscoe HWRC to Bretby HWRC; and

iii)      add £0.184m to Bretby HWRC from the remainder of the approved £2.000m funding from the 2023-24 Capital Programme.

That the Cabinet Member:

Approves, under Protocol 5 of the Council’s Financial Regulations, to proceed with the procurement and delivery of Weir Footbridge (Lovelock Bridge) Maintenance scheme at an estimated cost of £100.000.

RESOLVED:

To approve the recommendations as detailed in the not for publication report.

RESOLVED:

To approve the recommendations as detailed in the not for publication report.

RESOLVED:

To approve the recommendations as detailed in the not for publication report.

RESOLVED:

To approve the proposal to pay a grant of £546,000 from the Accelerating Reform Fund grant to Derbyshire Carers Association.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve the programme of formal public consultation for a period of 8 weeks on the three proposed options to deliver design services for Disabled Facilities Grants; and

2)    Receive a further report following the conclusion of the consultation, including an Equality Impact Analysis.

RESOLVED:

To note the receipt/availability of Section 106 funding and approve the allocations to the projects outlined in Appendix 2 to the report.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve the programme of formal public consultation for a period of seven weeks on the three proposed options to deliver future options to refocus the scope of the Derbyshire Healthy Home Project; and

2)    Receive a further report following the conclusion of the consultation, including an Equality Impact Analysis.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve the proposed changes to the Health and Wellbeing Board Terms of Reference, specifically the additions to the membership of the Health and Wellbeing Board and the changes to the approach to substitution for statutory Board members;

2)    Review the revised Terms of Reference, attached at Appendix 2 to the report, and agree that the amended Terms of Reference be added to Article 14 in the Council Constitution; and

3)    Agree that the Director of Legal and Democratic Services, utilising delegated powers will update and amend the Council Constitution to include the revised Terms of Reference for the Health and Wellbeing Board.

RESOLVED:

To approve the decision for Public Health to undertake a joint public consultation exercise with Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust on the following:

a)    Proposals as part of Phase 2 of the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service Transformation Project; and

b)    Proposals to transfer the Integrated Specialist Intensive Home Visiting Service into the Section 75 Partnership Agreement between the Council and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Note the findings of the recent consultation to re-shape the Derbyshire Discretionary Fund policy;

2)    Adopt the policy changes recommended in this report, to ensure that the Derbyshire Discretionary Fund can operate within agreed budget parameters from the 1 October 2024, to include:

a)    Renaming payment types to crisis payment, re-settlement grant and essential item grant;

b)    Reducing the number of crisis payments awarded in any 12-month period to two and increasing the value of each payment to £65 plus £15 per additional household member;

c)    Simplifying the policy by removing payments for rent in advance, travel and wind down the provision of some items in social housing; and

d)    Adoption of a tiered prioritisation framework for the fund, incorporating vulnerability; and

3)    Approve that the Director of Public Health will oversee any minor amendments to policy documents following the prototyping period from 1 October to 31 March 2025 and that the policy will remain within the scope of the approvals set out in this report.

RESOLVED:

To support the proposal to repurpose the Getaway from a short break service to an in-house specialist residential provision and the Outback

from providing universal specialist services to intensive edge of care provision, as an alternative plan to closure to make critical financial savings and to provide necessary services for disabled children.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve the Derbyshire Digital Connectivity Strategy, including the proposed interventions and approve its subsequent publication;

2)    Agree to the utilisation of an initial £300,000 from the Superfast Gainshare Fund to aid delivery of the Strategy; and

3)    Agree to the costed Delivery Plan for the Strategy.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Note the Draft Library Strategy for the period 2024 to 2029 (Appendix 2), including the proposed Vision and Operating Principles and propositions for core delivery and approve to undertake a public consultation exercise in relation to the draft Strategy, as required by the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964;

2)    Approve to notify the Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) of the draft Strategy and invite comments from the DCMS; and

3)    Approve the overall approach to finalising the Strategy following receipt and assessment of comments and note the proposed report to Cabinet early in 2025 which will set out the final proposals and implementation plan.