Robert Carington - Councillor for Buckinghamshire (Ridgeway West)

Councillor Robert Carington

Conservative Ridgeway West

Email: Robert.Carington@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Council: Buckinghamshire

Council Profile: View on council website

Committees: Transport, Environment & Climate Change Select Committee Standards and General Purposes Committee Audit and Governance Committee (Annual Meeting), Council (Budget Setting), Council

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Activity Timeline

Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.

73 meetings · Page 1 of 15

Committee Vice-Chairman

Senior Appointments and Pay Committee - Wednesday, 17th December, 2025 10.00 am

The Senior Appointments and Pay Committee are scheduled to meet to discuss the approach to pay reviews for 2026, and to review the minutes of previous meetings. The meeting will be held at The Oculus, Buckinghamshire Council in Aylesbury. Some of the meeting is scheduled to be held without press or public access.

December 17, 2025
Committee Committee Member

Cabinet - Tuesday, 16th December, 2025 10.00 am

Here is a summary of the Buckinghamshire Council Cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday 16 December 2025.

December 16, 2025
Committee Vice-Chairman

Senior Appointments and Pay Committee - Monday, 8th December, 2025 2.30 pm

The Senior Appointments and Pay Committee of Buckinghamshire Council met on 8 December 2025 to discuss the appointment of an Interim Director of Children's Services and a proposal for a permanent Chief Executive Officer recruitment process. The meeting was scheduled to take place in the Paralympic Room at Buckinghamshire Council's offices in Aylesbury. According to the agenda, the public and press were expected to be excluded from the meeting during these discussions.

December 08, 2025
Committee Chairman

Pension Fund Committee - Monday, 1st December, 2025 2.00 pm

The Buckinghamshire Council Pension Fund Committee convened to discuss key aspects of the fund's performance and governance, including agreeing to adopt the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) asset classes in setting the Fund's Strategic Asset Allocation, and approving an outline transition plan for the Buckinghamshire Pension Fund Investment Assets to join the London CIV [^2] pool. The committee also reviewed the fund's carbon footprint, training plan, and conflicts of interest policy.

December 01, 2025
Committee Guest

Finance & Resources Select Committee - Thursday, 27th November, 2025 2.00 pm

The Finance and Resources Select Committee were scheduled to discuss the council's budget management, IT strategy, and performance monitoring at their meeting on 27 November 2025. The committee was also expected to agree on a scoping document for the council's budget scrutiny process for 2026/27.

November 27, 2025

Decisions from Meetings

46 decisions · Page 6 of 10

Buckinghamshire Youth Justice and Support Team (YJST) Plan 2025-26

From: Cabinet - Tuesday, 9th September, 2025 10.00 am - September 09, 2025

...to endorse the 2025-2026 Youth Justice Plan and recommend it to the Council for adoption.

SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2025 – 2030

From: Cabinet - Tuesday, 9th September, 2025 10.00 am - September 09, 2025

...to approve the final Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Strategy 2025-2030 for publication.

Adult Day Opportunities and Overnight Respite Services

From: Cabinet - Tuesday, 9th September, 2025 10.00 am - September 09, 2025

...to implement a new Adult Social Care service model involving operating specialist support from four sites, discontinuing day services at three sites while ensuring alternative care, establishing a new respite facility, allocating capital investment, repurposing a day centre for young adults with special needs, and seeking sales for two day centre buildings, deferring the marketing of one to allow community bids.

Q1 Capital Budget Adjustments and Reprofiling

From: Cabinet - Tuesday, 8th July, 2025 10.00 am - July 08, 2025

...to approve adjustments to the 2025-2029 Capital Programme, including carrying forward unspent budgets, adding ringfenced grants, removing completed projects, reprofiling expenditure, and releasing funding for specific projects, resulting in a revised total programme of £672.231m.

Q1 Budget Management Report 2025-26

From: Cabinet - Tuesday, 8th July, 2025 10.00 am - July 08, 2025

...to note the Q1 Budget Management Report for 2025-26, which highlighted a balanced revenue forecast with pressures in key services, a Dedicated Schools Grant deficit, a capital budget matching the current plan, and savings delivery above target, and to agree to the changes to Fees and Charges outlined in Appendix 3.

Summary

Meetings Attended: 73

Average per Month: 3.2

Decisions Recorded: 46