Issue - meetings

The four West of England Local Authorities currently control the Learning Partnership West Company which has provided Information, Advice and Guidance services for young people.  All four authorities have already or have plans to withdraw funding for this activity and therefore it is proposed to remove the local authorities from the Board of LPW and allow the company to become a Staff Mutual Community Interest Company.

This report outlines the steps necessary to secure the interests of the local authorities and enable Learning Partnership West to continue to flourish as a company separate from the four local authorities.

Note:  Cabinet will be asked to agree that the report is exempt from publication because it contains material relating the financial or business affairs of an individual.

The Chair asked all Cabinet members to confirm that they had read and considered the public interest test.  All agreed.

On a motion from Councillor Paul Crossley, seconded by Councillor David Dixon, it was

RESOLVED (unanimously)

(1) To AGREE that the entire report constitutes exempt information according to the categories set out in the Local government Act 1972 (amended Schedule 12A) because it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);

(2) To AGREE that having already been satisfied that the public interest would be better served by not disclosing relevant information, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the Act as amended.

[At this point the public and press were asked to leave the meeting]

The Cabinet then considered the exempt report and made certain decisions which are exempt from publication for the reasons previously stated.