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To fund internal reconfiguration of the school to cater for children with additional needs.

RESOLVED - That: Funding of up to £50,000 was agreed.

The purpose of the report is to seek approval for the Council to enter into a Deed of Covenant that prohibits the Council and Langtree letting any part of the Hollinwood Junction estate (includes all the employment area Starbucks, Greggs, Café Nero, Tim Hortons, and Coffee#1.

RESOLVED - That:
Council approves entering into a Deed of Covenant that prohibits the Council and Langtree letting any part of the Hollinwood Junction estate (includes all the employment area Starbucks, Greggs, Café Nero, Tim Hortons, and Coffee#1.
To authorise the Director of Legal Services or his nominee to sign and/or affix the Common Seal of the Council to all the documents and associated or ancillary documentation referred to above and/or required to give effect to the recommendations in this report.
Implications:

The purpose of this report is to consider the introduction of prohibition of waiting restrictions at Chew Valley Road and Rimmon Close, Greenfield.

RESOLVED - That: prohibition of waiting restrictions are introduced in accordance with the plan and schedule at the end of this report.

The purpose of the report is to look at the options available for the continuation of claiming the GMCA Discretionary Learning support funding without breaching our contract by:-
•Outlining the required changes of childcare provision using GMCA Discretionary Learning Support funding from 1st August 2022.
•Set out the necessary/proposed changes that Lifelong Learning will implement from 1st August 2021

RESOLVED - That:
Option 4 has been agreed, namely, that Oldham Lifelong Learning service ceases its Oldham and Werneth Park Ofsted Childcare registered centres. One full time Childcare Support Coordinator remains in place and sources external childcare places and supports learners to access these. By continuing to offer sourcing suitable external Childcare provision we will be able to continue to support learners at risk of not starting or continuing learning because of childcare costs and will be able to continue to claim the Discretionary Learner Support funding.

To designate the part of the Rocher Vale Regionally Important Geodiversity Site that is within Oldham. The advantage of this option is to give the site local planning policy protection regarding geodiversity and will aid enjoyment of the Green Belt.

RESOLVED - That:
Option 1 - To designate the part of the Rocher Vale Regionally Important Geodiversity Site that is within Oldham. The advantage of this option is to give the site planning policy protection regarding geodiversity and will aid enjoyment of the Green Belt. There are no known disadvantages to this option.

The purpose of this report is to seek delegated approval to extend the current temporary agency support within the Strategic Planning and Information Team to the end of March 2023.

RESOLVED - That:
Approve the extension of the current temporary agency support within the Strategic Planning and Information Team to the end of March 2023.

Oldham Council’s Waste Management Services (WMS) uses Mayrise, which is an IT information system for managing statutory waste collections from 97,289 domestic properties in the borough. It is also used to manage 1,700 business waste collections from Oldham, Rochdale and Manchester which generates £1.6 million income annually.
Mayrise is delivered by an organisation named Yotta and they issued a notification in 2019 suggesting that Mayrise would reach its end of life in August 2022.
From that point, Mayrise would no longer be actively developed, with full decommission in December 2023.
This notification has since been withdrawn; however, the system is no longer being developed. Support is still being provided and there is no indication that this will be withdrawn, however there is no active development of the Mayrise product.
The service is mindful of this and wants to ensure we procure a replacement back-office product that enables us to deliver the service change we need before the product is end of life.
The Waste Management service empties approximately 33,041 bins on a daily basis, which equates to 8.3 million collections per year. As well as carrying out approximately 272 deliveries, repairs and exchanges each week, or 13,700 each year.
The current Mayrise information system contains all the address, customer, collection round and historical data on all WMS activity (domestic and commercial waste collections, bin delivery, exchange and repair, bulky collections etc).
Currently, the WMS does not use in-cab technology, although this is widely accepted within the industry as a significant tool to develop and digitise waste collection activity due to its ability to co-ordinate front line and back-office systems which currently rely heavily on paperwork.
This means that processes are incredibly long-winded and inefficient. Data is unreliable and service planning and development is often based upon assumptions, rather than dependable information.
To allow the service to develop we are requesting that we invest and develop an in-cab technology solution alongside our need to replace our back-office system.
A combined in-cab and back-office solution would provide managers in the WMS with the basis to focus on their key development priorities and opportunities for service (e.g., future projects, systems integration, management information improvement).

Replace Mayrise back-office system and implement in-cab technology
Procure a replacement for the Mayrise back-office system and implement in-cab technology to provide the Waste Management service with a fit for purpose, up to date back office system which will lead to efficiencies in processes, improved management information and a better resident experience. This will be a key enabler for the service to digitise its core service processes for both the service and residents.
A procurement exercise has already been undertaken under the Crown Commercial Service’s G Cloud 12 framework agreement, which is a fully procurement compliant route to market for cloud based computing services.
The company Bartec Municipal Technologies and their waste management system, Collective, scored the highest against the Council’s requirements.
Therefore, approval is sought to award the replacement system and implementation of in-cab technology to Bartec Municipal Technologies.

The school have been advised to reduce their PAN back down to 45 from 60. This reduction however cannot come into place until September 2023 due to rules around admission policies. As the school already have 2 cohorts of 60 pupils and will have a further 3rd cohort of 60 PAN they have requested some reconfiguration works for a smaller room to be expanded to allow a full class to be taught in there and enable the smooth running of the school whilst the larger cohorts move through.
A competitive tender process for the works was undertaken via a mini competition under the Council’s Construction and Highways Works and Services Framework Agreement (2019) (CHWSF) – Lot 14.

RESOLVED - That:
the Council seek to appoint E.Smith

The purpose of this report is to appoint a contractor to remove asbestos containing materials from the existing buildings at the former Saddleworth High School in line with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and L143 Managing and working with asbestos.

RESOLVED - That the Council seek to appoint the contractor ranked the highest following the evaluation against the set criteria highlighted within the CHWSF Mini Competition tender document, to remove asbestos containing materials from the existing buildings at the former Saddleworth High School in line with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and L143 Managing and working with asbestos.

This report seeks approval for the acceptance of the returned tender submission and increase in budget provision in relation to the electrical rewire at Mills Hill Primary School – Junior Building.

RESOLVED - That: Accept the results of the tendering and moderation exercise and award the contract to the successful contractor.

St Margaret’s have approached the Council asking to increase their PAN from 40 to 45 as they are consistently oversubscribed, and applications have steadily increased over the past 4 years. Currently 40 pupils have places at the school and there are 7 children on the waiting list. The school is always subject to appeals for pupils wanting to attend and the total number of nursery applications has also steadily increased over the past 4 years
The Hollinwood Ward has an increasing population with a younger age profile than Oldham as a whole and therefore the pressure on St Margaret’s reflects the local demographic.
As part of the strategic plan for the improvement of the school, The Trust and the Governing Body need to establish a PAN which will enable the school to plan and manage the curriculum and teaching for single aged and mixed age classes. A PAN of 45 will enable the school to achieve this in a coherent and strategic way, which the current PAN of 40 prevents.

RESOLVED - That:
To approve a grant of up to £400,000 from the basic need capital fund for an additional classroom at St Margaret’s Primary School, Hollinwood. This will accommodate an increase in Planned Admission Numbers (PAN) from 40 to 45 which will enable the school to plan and manage the curriculum and teaching for single aged and mixed age classes and also reduce their consistent over subscription.

The purpose of this report is to seek approval for the direct award of emergency works to a Council Framework Contractor and Delegated approval for associated follow-up works at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (QE Hall). Works required to undertake emergency mechanical and associated works within the QE Hall to ensure that the Hall can remain operational and available for events by the Public and Council until the proposed new events space within the Spindles re-development are operational (current estimated December 2023). Due to the complexity and urgency of the works to ensure that the Hall can remain open and operational - the initial work was direct awarded following completion of the design solution and quotation being received. The report also seeks approval for necessary associated follow-on works to the agreed budget limit of £220,000.00.

RESOLVED - That: Award contract to WH Good Limited, with Delegated Approval to accept follow-on quotation up to agreed budget total.

A decision is sought to request approval for a short-term contract extension (until end of 2022-23 financial year) to be directly awarded to
Bounce Together Ltd. for continued provision of a platform of evidence-based mental health and wellbeing measuring tools for 46 Oldham
primary schools. This would be used to both deliver measurements and analyse the results.
This platform is already being utilised by these schools, as well as Oldham secondary and post16 settings (including those in the specialist
sector). Extension will continue to provide a single system across our education settings, allowing comparison between settings and
trusts, as well as across the borough.

RESOLVED - That:
Authority be given to make a direct award of a contract to Bounce Together Ltd to extend the time period of their contract to continue delivery to 46 primary settings who have been engaged in the project.

The purpose of the report is to create four FTE deputy team managers (Grade 7) on a fixed term basis to 31/3/2025 in the targeted early help district teams in order to strengthen capacity in the teams, in particular to improve management oversight of casework with children and families undertaken by the teams

RESOLVED - That: four Deputy Team Manager posts (Grade 7) be created in the targeted early help district teams on a fixed term basis to 31/3/2025

The purpose of the report is to create two fixed term posts for 12 months to increase capacity in the Domestic Abuse team:
• a senior Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA) Grade 8 who will undertake triage of cases and training of social work staff on domestic abuse; and
• an additional Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (Grade 7) to increase capacity in the team

RESOLVED - That: two fixed term posts be created for 12 months to increase capacity in the Domestic Abuse team:
• a senior Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA) Grade 8 and
• an additional Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (Grade 7) to increase capacity in the team