MINUTES of a meeting of the East Sussex Discretionary Transport Appeal Panel
held on 11 January 2023
Present - Councillors: Field and Redstone
Apologies: Cllr Webb
Officers: Jo Miles, Alison Mills, Jenny Matheson
1 Apologies for absence:
1.1 None.
2 Public minutes:
2.1 RESOLVED to approve as a correct record the public minutes of the previous meeting held on 16 December 2022.
3 Disclosures of interests:
3.1 Cllr Redstone advised that one of the schools to which travel assistance was being sought falls within his division.
4 Urgent items:
4.1 None.
5 Any other non-exempt items:
5.1 None.
6 Exclusion of the press and public:
6.1 It was RESOLVED - to exclude the public and press from the meeting for agenda items 7,8, 9 and 10 on the grounds that if the public and press were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as specified in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to an individual.
7 Exempt minutes:
7.1 RESOLVED to approve as a correct record the exempt minutes of the previous meeting held on 16 December 2022.
8 Report on previous cases:
8.1 The Panel considered the report of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman in respect of case 26/22 which contained no recommended actions.
[The full detail is set out in an exempt minute]
9 Consideration of transport provision in individual cases:
9.1 The Panel considered and reached a decision on the following transport provision case numbers: 48/22, 49/22, 50/22, and 34/22.
[The full detail is set out in an exempt minute]
10 Any other exempt items:
10.1 None
11 Date and time for next meeting:
11.1 Members confirmed the next meeting will take place on 7 February 2023 at 2pm.
Signed electronically as an accurate record of the meeting held on 11 January 2022:
Councillor Kathryn Field (Chair)
Date: