Agenda item

To report the level of spending and exposure against the Council’s Revenue budgets and reserves and balances for the first 3 months to 30 June 2021.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To note the report.  

2.      To require the respective directors and Director of Resources to continue to closely monitor and manage service financial and operational performances, specifically Growth and Prosperity, Children’s Services, Strategic Leisure Assets and Adult Services.

3.      To encourage the Scrutiny Leadership Board to continue to independently review the financial and operational performances of the services listed in decision 2.

4.      To note that detailed information on the financial performance of each of the Council’s wholly-owned companies will be submitted to the next meeting of the Shareholder Committee in line with decision EX26/2021 and this will be the case from now on.

5.      To continue to lobby central government (HM Treasury, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for Education in particular) along with local authority peers and networks and the Local Government Association for the funding necessary to cope with the demands and new burdens presenting as a result of both Covid and within Children’s Services.