Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Chief Officer (Financial Services) which presents the Council’s projected financial health position for 2019/20 as at Month 5 of the financial year.

(Please note that Appendix 1 to this report is designated as being exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3))

The Chief Officer (Financial Services) submitted a report which presented the Council’s projected financial health position for 2019/20 as at Month 5 of the financial year. 

Responding to a Member’s enquiry regarding the transport budget for children and young people with special educational needs and disability and the independence of the panel which considered appeals against an application decision, the Board received a range of information on the related application process and also on the current budgetary position for the service. However, in response to the specific enquiry raised, the Chief Executive undertook to respond to the Member in question together with the Director of Children and Families.

In response to an enquiry regarding the budgetary pressure in the Children and Families directorate arising from external residential and Independent Fostering Agency placements for children and young people, the Board received an update on the actions being taken in this area.

Following the consideration of Appendix 1 to the submitted report, designated as being exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3), which was considered in private at the conclusion of the meeting, it was

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the projected financial position of the authority, as at Month 5 (August 2019) of the financial year, be noted;

(b)  That the requirement for the Director of Children and Families’ proposals to identify further budget savings to address the projected overspend in the directorate, be noted;

(c)  That the risk that the budgeted level of Capital receipts, as detailed in exempt appendix 1 to the submitted report, may not be receivable in 2019/20, be noted.