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The purpose of this report is to seek an exemption from the contract procedure rules, as stated in 21.3(e), in order to award a further contract to the provider of Oldham’s Health Improvement and Weight Management Service to ensure the continued provision of the supplementary Adult Tier 2 Weight Management Services and avoid service disruption following the withdrawal of 2022/23 Adult Weight Management grant monies from the Department of Health and Social Care.

RESOLVED - That:
The Council will contract directly with ABL Health Ltd at an additional cost of £140,000 to provide continued provision of additional Adult Tier 2 Weight Management Services, to cover the period 1 July 2022 until 31 March 2023, in lieu of the withdrawn Adult Weight Management Service grant that was withdrawn by the DHSC in order to avoid disruption to service delivery and meet the growing demand for adult weight management support.

The purpose of this report is seek approval to commence consultation on structural changes to the Finance Service. The Consultation is planned to commence on the 06 September 2022.

RESOLVED - That: To commence consultation for a 30 day period in accordance with the Council's policy and as per advice from HR.

To extend the Council's current working arrangements with Marston’s Holdings Limited. and Rundle Co. Ltd. for 7 months (from the 1st November 2022 to the 31st May 2023). The contracts will require modification as the current contracts finish on 31st October 2022.

RESOLVED - That:To award a 7-month extension to the current working arrangements to allow the Revenues Service to develop a new 3-year contract based on an optimal balance between in-house and external enforcement.

To provide approval to progress four initiatives supporting the decarbonisation of Council Buildings and achievement of the 2025 carbon neutrality target set out in the Oldham Green New Deal Strategy.

RESOLVED - That:
Progress the four initiatives in this report as recommended. Under this option, the four initiatives set out in this report will be progressed, in support of achieving the Council’s 2025 carbon neutrality target.

To remove obstructive parking from two bus stops along St John Street that is preventing the less able to board and alight the bus

RESOLVED - That:
One bus stop is relocated from outside residential properties and both stops be provided with bus stop clearway markings.

A decision is sought to request approval for a contract to be directly award to:
1. Better Communication CIC to carry out research and evaluation to produce thematic Early Years report.
2. Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) to carry out research and evaluation to produce thematic Mental Health report.

RESOLVED - That:
Permission is given to directly award a contract to:
1. Better Communication CIC to carry out research and evaluation to produce thematic Early Years report.
2. Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) to carry out research and evaluation to produce thematic Mental Health report

A decision is sought to request approval for an exemption from the Contract Procedure Rules for a contract to be awarded directly to:
1. Better Communication CIC to carry out research and evaluation to produce thematic Early Years report.
2. Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) to carry out research and evaluation to produce thematic Mental Health report

RESOLVED - That:
an exemption be approved under Rule 21.3(i) of the Contract Procedure Rules to directly award a contract to Better Communication CIC and Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) to carry out research
and evaluation to produce thematic Early Years and Mental Health reports.

To award the contract for the provision of the School Swimming Transport Services, after going through a full tender process. This will ensure that a safe and high-quality transport provision is provided to children in our borough so that they can travel from their school to the swimming pool, and visa versa to access the school swimming provision. The contract is for 3 years from September 2022 up to July 2025, with an option to extend for a further two years. The level of transport provision needed is dependant on the level of school buy backs in to the service each year.

RESOLVED - That:
To award and enter into the contract following the completion of the tender evaluation process on behalf of the Council due to the need to award the contract to allow sufficient time for implementation of the provision and contract start date on week commencing 12 September 2022.

This report follows a report of 23rd June 2022 where the COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF) scheme Phase 1 allocation was approved. This report requests approval from Cabinet Member for Finance and Low Carbon for the proposed methodology for the allocation of the remaining unspent CARF grant to maximise the grant funding in full.

RESOLVED - That the Council adopts the preferred methodology outlined in Option 1 below and in Sections 3.2 (1) and 4 of the detailed report for Phase 2 allocations.

Approval is sought to extend the existing contract to deliver Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support Service (SEND IASS) held by Oldham POINT. It is proposed this would cover an additional period of twelve months up until 31 March 2024.

RESOLVED - To approve a twelve-month extension for the SEND IASS contract delivered by POINT from 1st April 2023 until 31st March 2024 as
outlined in the original award.

The purpose of the report is to create additional capacity in the Domestic Abuse team in order to better meet the needs of victims of domestic abuse
and their children. The proposals particularly strengthen support for those who are not identified as being at “high” risk, for whom the support offer is
currently under-developed creating a risk that domestic abuse will recur and/or escalate. The proposals also seek to strengthen the support offer
for victims of so called honour-based violence.

RESOLVED - That: Additional capacity be created in the Domestic Abuse Team by:
• Deleting the current post of Customer Support Officer (Grade 4);
• Creating three new posts of Domestic Abuse Engagement Officer (Grade 5), slotting in the existing Customer Support Officer to one of these roles.
• Deleting the current post of Independent Honour based violence specialist (Grade 7); and
• Creating an additional post of Senior Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (Grade 8) with a specialism in so-called honour based violence and forced marriage, slotting in the current postholder on return from their
secondment to GMCA.

In order to increase capacity and enable the retention of experienced workers in the targeted Early Help district teams until 31/3/25, the report seeks approval to increase the number of Senior Family Workers to 35 by:
• Replacing five agency Family Workers for which there is approval to 31/12/22 with five fixed term Senior Family Workers to 31/3/25
• Extend the contracts of five Senior Family Workers on fixed term contracts by 12 months to 31/3/25
• Deleting five posts of Family Worker (Grade 5) and replacing these with five Senior Family Worker posts (Grade 6).

RESOLVED - That: The following changes be implemented in the targeted Early Help District Teams:
1. Replace five agency staff with contracts to 31/12/22 with five Senior Family Workers (Grade 6) on fixed term contracts to 31/3/25;
2. Extending the contracts of five Senior Family Workers on fixed term contracts to 31/3/24 by a further 12 months to 31/3/25; and
3. Deleting five posts of Family Worker (Grade 5) and replacing them with five posts of Senior Family Worker (Grade 6), with the staff in these posts slotted into the more senior roles.

This report seeks to implement one of the priorities in the Children’s Services Demand Management Strategy, which is developing a better co-ordinated approach to delivering support to parents around their children’s development. This will be achieved by appointing a Parenting Manager (Grade 8) who will lead work to develop the partnership’s approach to
parenting, achieving a co-ordinated approach to effective parenting support spanning pre-birth to age 19 (24 years for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and at different levels of the continuum need, together with a system for assessing the quality and impact of this work. The post will be created on a fixed term basis to 31 March 2025 as part of the investment to support delivery of the outcomes of the Supporting Families programme, Family Hubs programme and parenting support offer.

RESOLVED - That: the fixed term post of Parenting Manager be created to 31/3/25

The report seeks to extend the fixed term contracts of the Family Decision Making team to 30 June 2023, and to implement a system for assuring the
outcomes and quality of the work.

RESOLVED - That: The contracts of the Family Decision Making team be extended to 30/6/2023, with a review in February 2023 of whether to extend for a longer period, and to move the service to be part of the Family Connect service with an associated refocusing of the level of need at which the team work and strengthened performance and quality assurance arrangements.

Dispute Resolution Services in Oldham are currently
delivered by Together Trust and this contract will end
on 30 September 2022. In January 2022, DMT gave
approval to undertake a full tender exercise for this
service with a funding envelope of £25,000 per
annum.
Following a robust and transparent commissioning
and evaluation process approval is now sought to
award the contact to the highest scoring bidder from 1
October 2022. This will enable the Local Authority to
continue to fulfil its statutory responsibilities.

RESOLVED -
Option 1 – award the contract
To award the contract to the preferred provider from 1
October 2022.