Agenda

To receive apologies for absence from the meeting.

You are invited to declare any registerable  and/or non-registerable interests in matters appearing on the agenda, and the nature of that interest.

You are also invited to disclose any dispensation in relation to any registerable and/or non-registerable interests that have been granted to you in respect of any matters appearing on the agenda.

Please complete the Declarations of Interests care available at the meeting and return it to the Democratic Services Officer before leaving the meeting.

To approve the minutes of the meetings held on 25 November 2024 and 19 December 2024 respectively.

The report introduces a proposed Adult Social Care Strategy for 2025-2026. (“the Strategy”). The Strategy sets out how the Authority intends to develop support for adults with care and support needs and their carers over the next two years.

In common with most local authorities, the Authority faces a rapidly ageing population, an increasing number of residents with care and support needs, financial pressures, and recruitment and retention challenges in the social care sector.

To address these challenges, the Strategy focuses on prevention throughout; empowering people to live included lives, close to the people they love, wherever possible in homes they can call their own. This will allow the Authority to concentrate resources on providing excellent support and maintaining a good quality of life for those who need more intensive, ongoing care and support.

The Council Tax Base is an annual statutory calculation, used to determine the level of Council Tax to be paid for individual properties in the Borough. The Tax Base represents the number of properties that will be subject to Council Tax and is expressed in terms of the number of Band D equivalent properties, after allowing for the effect of discounts, exemptions and reliefs.

The agreed Tax Base for North Tyneside Council for 2025/26 will be used in the 2025/26 Budget and Council Tax calculation. The Tax Base is also used as the basis for the major precepting authorities (Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria and the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Authority) to determine their precept requirements.

The report provides Cabinet with an overview of both the service delivery performance and budget position across the Authority as at 30 November 2024.  It sets out the key areas of service delivery for Cabinet to note, including any impacts in budgetary terms and sow the forecast outturn position to 31 March 2025 for both revenue and capital.

On 25 November 2024 Cabinet received a report from the Overview and Scrutiny Co-ordination and Finance Committee’s Task and Finish Group on Highways Delivery in North Tyneside.  The Scrutiny Task and Finish Group was specifically established to take forward the matters at the request of members of the Overview and Scrutiny Co-ordination and Finance Committee who had initially looked to review the operation of the highway maintenance function delivered by Capita, the Authority’s strategic delivery partner.  With the announcement of the return of services back to the Authority in January 2025, the objective of the Task and Finish Group expanded to gain a greater understanding of how the highway maintenance service operates and to review the working practices taking into account national, regional and local policies with particular regard to the NE Transport Plan, Highways Asset Management Plan and future City Regions Sustainable Transport Settlement funding. 

The report sets out a proposed response from Cabinet to the findings and recommendations of the Overview and Scrutiny Co-ordination and Finance Committee’s Task and Finish Group on Highways Delivery in North Tyneside.

Monday 27 January 2025 at 6.00pm (Extraordinary Meeting)

Monday 3 February 2025 at 6.00pm (Extraordinary Meeting)

Monday 17 February 2025 at 6.00pm (Ordinary Meeting)