The Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and officer responses were noted.

DECISION

1.    To support the investment requirements associated with Recommendation 1 (Invest and introduce new commercial strategies, similar to Birmingham’s City Council’s “City Serve”, to Contract Services Primary School’s school meals catering contracts (Proposed investment over 3 years to still be costed) which is intended to improve customer relationships with schools and to retain sufficient numbers of them buying school catering services in order to maximise economies of scale.

2.    To accept all the recommendations set out in the report in order to ensure that Contract Services achieves a balanced budget position in future.

3.    To note the content of the full Equalities Impact Assessment on the Contract Services.

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, CHILDREN AND CULTURE (D. JONES)

(Divisional Director, Youth and Commissioning (R. Martins-Taylor)