To receive apologies for absence from Members.

To receive declarations of personal and prejudicial interest (if any) from Members/Officers in accordance with the provisions of the Members’ Code of Conduct adopted by Council from 1 September 2008.

To receive for approval the Minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet of 27 June 2017.

To provide Cabinet with an update on the Council’s financial position as at 30th June 2017.

To update Cabinet on the development of the Medium Term Financial Strategy 2018-19 to 2021-22.

To present to Cabinet the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales Inspection of Children’s Services Report and related Action Plan and request that that Cabinet endorse the action plan and arrangements for monitoring the actions. 

To endorse the principles of the Partnership Agreement (S33) for Western Bay Programme Infrastructure; Authorise the Corporate Director of Social Services and Wellbeing to arrange for the execution of the final version of the Partnership Agreement on behalf of the Council in consultation with the Corporate Director Operational and Partnership Services and the Section 151 Officer; authorise the Corporate Director of Social Services and Wellbeing, in consultation with the Corporate Director, Operational and Partnership Services and the Section 151 Officer, to make any future minor changes to the executed Partnership Agreement.

To provide Cabinet with an update of the work undertaken since Cabinet granted approval to implement a new model for specialist 52-week provision for children and young people with complex needs, and to request approval of the Statement of Purpose that has been developed for the new provision

To seek approval for changes to the Authority’s Community Asset Transfer policy to ensure that Priority 1 asset transfers can be progressed efficiently and effectively until such time as a comprehensive sports pavilion and playing fields strategy is developed which will be presented to the Cabinet for consideration in due course. 

To seek Cabinet approval for the submission of a full application to the Rural Development Plan for Wales Sustainable Management Scheme and, if successful, to accept the resulting funding offer and enter into appropriate agreements. 

To seek Cabinet’s approval to consult formally with the parents, staff and governing body of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Llangynwyd and other interested parties on the proposal to establish a learning resource centre for pupils with autistic spectrum disorders at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Llangynwyd. 

To seek approval from Cabinet to consult on the proposal to make a regulated alteration to Coychurch Primary School in the form of an enlargement with effect from 1 January 2018.

To request Cabinet approval to modify the decision in respect of the opening date of the replacement Pencoed Primary School from 1 April 2018 to 5 September 2018. 

To seek approval from Cabinet for the appointment of local authority governors to the school governing bodies listed in the report. 

To gain approval from Cabinet for the amended Corporate Health and Safety (H&S) Policy at Appendix A to the report.

To consider three proposals to vary the current Bridgend County Borough hackney carriage table of fares. Proposals have been received by Mr James Borland and Mr Richard Parrott, Mr Tom Burke, and Mr Dario Nelson.

To inform Cabinet of the Information Reports for noting which have been published since its last scheduled meeting.

To consider any items of business that by reason of special circumstances the chairperson is of the opinion should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency in accordance with paragraph 2.4 (e) of the Cabinet Procedure Rules within the Constitution.

The minutes and reports relating to the following items are not for publication as they contain exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 14,15 and 16 of Part 4 and Paragraph 21 of Part 5, Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) (Wales) Order 2007.

If following the application of the public interest test Cabinet resolves pursuant to the Act to consider these items in private, the public will be excluded from the meeting during such consideration.

To receive for approval the exempt minutes of the meeting of Cabinet of 27 June 2017.