To receive the financial performance
monitoring for the period ending 31 October 2019.
Decision:
The Executive agreed the
recommendations as outlined above namely:
To
note the report.
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.
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, Parking Services and
Concessionary Fares, 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 and the release of
£1m of Earmarked Revenue Reserves to compensate for the
deficit on Working Balances as at month 4.