Decision details

Leeds City Council has received £10.4m, from the Government, to support the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is a one-off contribution, for the 2020-21 financial year, and is non-recurrent.

This funding is to support proactive and preventative evidence based measures, in the fight against the pandemic, which are informed by the Leeds outbreak plan. Setting up a local contact tracing service is a requirement of central Government. As part of this allocation, a budget has been identified for this local contact tracing service, it is necessary that this service is implemented immediately as part of the Public Health response to COVID-19:-

The development and implementation of the local contact tracing service for Leeds was launched in November 2020. This service has been developed at pace with partners across the Council.

The programmes developed are detailed below, it is anticipated costs for 12 months from November 2020 – December 2021 will be approximately £785,158. There will be flexibility with this approach depending on the specific needs of the Leeds population and the rates of infection, therefore costs may increase or decrease in line with local data.