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 5 July 2016. 

To provide Cabinet with an update on the Council’s financial position as at 30thJune 2016.

To seek Cabinet approval to enter into public consultation on possible dispensations, to the two bag per fortnightly restriction on the collection of residual household waste, from the 1^st April 2017. 

To present to Cabinet the Director of Social Services Annual Report for 2015/16 and request that Members note the judgements reached locally about social care services in Bridgend. 

To update Cabinet on the local authority responsibilities in respect of the Secure Estate, following the implementation of the Social Services and Wellbeing Act in April 2016. To seek approval to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with HMP Parc Prison and other strategic partners to set out agreed procedures for the provision of care and support for prisoners in the Secure Estate.  To seek Cabinet agreement to sign up to an interagency information sharing protocol between Bridgend Council and relevant agencies to support the regular sharing of personal information between those agencies to enable them to deliver effective care and support.  To seek Cabinet approval for a waiver under Rule 3.2.3 from the requirement to seek competitive tenders for the provision of care and support on the basis that there is technically only one organisation which can deliver this service.  Subject to Cabinet’s approval of the waiver under Rule 3.2.3, authority is sought to enter into a short term ‘pilot scheme’ agreement with G4S Medical Services Ltd (G4S) to provide appropriate care and support within the secure estate, on terms to be approved by the Director of Operational and Partnership Services and the Section151 Officer.     

            To delegate authority to the Corporate Director, Education and Family Support to award the contract to the bidder submitting the most economically advantageous tender for the construction of the Betws Primary School and Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Cwm Garw, i.e. Garw Valley South, subject to the tender price being acceptable to the S151 Officer and receipt of Welsh Government funding approval.  Delegate authority to the Corporate Director, Education and Family Support to enter into a construction contract with the successful tenderer and any relevant ancillary agreements in consultation with the Director of Operational  and Partnership Services and arrange for execution of the same on behalf of the Council.  Note that an information report will be presented to Cabinet in due course, advising of the outcome of the tender process.

To inform Cabinet of the Information Reports which have been published since the 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 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.