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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING AS AT MONTH 3 2019/20
The Executive resolved as
follows:
- To
note the report.
- To use all
possible to means to continue to lobby Government (HM Treasury,
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the
Department for Education in particular) along with local authority
peers, the Local Government Association and the Association of
Directors of Children’s Services for significantly more
funding to cope with the soaring demand and new burdens presenting
in Children’s Services. This to include personal contact with
the local MP’s.
3.
To require the respective directors and Director of Resources to
continue to closely monitor and manage service
financial and operational performances, specifically
Children’s Services but also Strategic Leisure Assets,
Concessionary Fares and Parking Services, and to ensure the release
of at least £1m of budgets across all directorates as a
consequence of a 1-year freeze on non-essential spend.