Cabinet 21 February 2008 Allocation of 2008/09 Area Based Grant

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Agenda No
AGENDA MANAGEMENT SHEET
Name of Committee
Cabinet
Date of Committee
21 February 2008
Report Title
Allocation of 2008/09 Area Based Grant
Summary
For Cabinet to consider the known commitments
against the 2008/09 Area Based Grant and to agree a
framework against which the proposed use of any
consequent available resources can be assessed.
For further information
please contact:
Dave Clarke
Strategic Director,
Resources
Tel: 01926 412003
Virginia Rennie
Group Accountant
Tel: 01926 412239
[email protected]
Davidclarketr.Warwickshire.gov.uk
Would the recommended
decision be contrary to the
Budget and Policy
Framework?
No.
Background papers
Area Based Grant – Cabinet 10th January 2008
CONSULTATION ALREADY UNDERTAKEN:-
Details to be specified
Other Committees
Local Member(s)
Other Elected Members
X
Cllr Tandy, Cllr Roodhouse, Cllr Booth, Cllr
Atkinson, Cllr Haynes
Cabinet Member
X
Cllr Farnell, Cllr Cockburn “approved for
consideration”
Chief Executive
X
Jim Graham
Legal
X
David Carter, Sarah Duxbury – comments
incorporated
Finance
X
Dave Clarke – reporting officer
Other Chief Officers
District Councils
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Health Authority
Police
Other Bodies/Individuals
X
Public Service Board on 20 February 2008
FINAL DECISION
SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS:
Details to be specified
Further consideration by
this Committee
To Council
X
Council will make the formal decision on the
allocation of ABG at its meeting on 18 March
2008.
To Cabinet
X
Cabinet will consider the allocation of ABG again
at its meeting on 13 March 2008.
To an O & S Committee
To an Area Committee
Further Consultation
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Agenda No
Cabinet - 21 February 2008
Allocation of 2008/09 Area Based Grant
Report of the Strategic Director, Resources
Recommendation
It is recommended that Cabinet:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Agree the framework for allocating Area Based Grant in 2008/09 as outlined in
paragraph 3.3.
Note the existing commitments against the Area Based Grant and the
consequent available resources as summarised in Table 2 and detailed in
Appendix A.
Note that a further report will come to Cabinet, on 13 March, with proposals on
the implementation of the agreed framework for allocating Area Based Grant,
for recommendation on to Council on 18 March.
1
Background
1.1
When the Warwickshire LAA became operational on 1 April 2007 it was
supported by £9.3 million of LAA Pooled Grant to provide resources to deliver
the agreed targets. LAA Pooled Grant primarily acted as a means of capturing
the wide range of area-based funding streams, allowing for rationalisation of
the administration and monitoring that surrounds those funding streams and
increasing local flexibility over the use of funding.
1.2
As part of the 2008/09 to 2010/11 Local Government Finance Settlement,
announced by the Government on 10 December 2007, Area Based Grant
(ABG) was introduced. This was a combination of grants already pooled as
part of the Warwickshire LAA Pooled Grant, other existing non-pooled grants
and a number of new grants.
1.3
ABG builds on the original LAA grant by further increasing local flexibility over
the use of resources, and further reducing reporting requirements. However,
unlike LAA grant, which was allocated for the purposes of supporting the
achievement of LAA targets, ABG is a non-ringfenced general grant. This
means there are no conditions attached to the way funding can be used. As a
result partners are free to use the ABG allocated to them, alongside the
totality of their funding, to support the delivery of local, regional and national
priorities in their areas, including the achievement of LAA targets.
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1.4
Although any decision on the allocation of ABG is a decision of Warwickshire
County Council as the grant receiving body, in practice, the allocation of ABG
must go hand in hand with developing and agreeing the LAA. The County
Council and partners will need to be satisfied they have plans showing how
they will work towards the attainment of the LAA targets and that resource
plans are in place to underpin the LAA and manage any risks.
1.5
The Audit Commission will, through the work of its appointed auditors, assess
whether resources have been used effectively, with a strong focus on value
for money and efficiency as part of the Use of Resources element of the
Comprehensive Area Assessment.
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Warwickshire’s Area Based Grant
2.1
The ABG for Warwickshire is £22.112 million for 2008/09. Future indicative
levels of ABG are £33.232 million for 2009/10 and £32.659 million for
2010/11. The significant increase in grant in later years is due to the inclusion
of Supporting People funding as part of ABG. Table 1 below breaks down the
ABG allocations into those partners with lead responsibility for its allocation.
Those elements of ABG showing the LAA as the lead are the grants pooled
within the existing Warwickshire LAA. For 2008/09 and onwards the decision
on the allocation of these grants also rests with the County Council as the
grant receiving body.
Table 1: Summary of Warwickshire ABG 2008/09 to 2010/11
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
£m
£m
£m
Existing Resources
LAA Pooled Grants
6.692
5.686
5.689
Warwickshire County Council Grants
13.704
15.626
26.700
Total Existing Resources
20.396
21.312
32.389
New Resources
Warwickshire County Council
Nuneaton and Bedworth BC
Total New Resources
Total ABG
2010/11
£m
6.776
24.988
31.764
-
0.751
0.049
0.800
0.752
0.091
0.843
0.755
0.140
0.895
20.396
22.112
33.232
32.659
2.2
Whilst Table 1 shows ABG for Warwickshire as a significant amount of money
in practice it is the sum of up of 34 smaller revenue grants that have each
been allocated across authorities according to specific policy criteria.
3
A Framework for Allocating Area Based Grant
3.1
The County Council is responsible for allocating £22.063 million ABG in
2008/09. Any decision will be a matter of balancing two competing priorities:
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•
All but £0.751 million of the AGB in 2008/09 is related to grants the
County Council and/or the LAA currently receive. Many of these grants
have been in place for a number of years and are used to fund
mainstream services. As a result not only are there on-going
commitments against the grants but, in some cases, services had been
planning for the use of the grant in future years before it became part of
ABG.
•
The ABG was created as a single allocation to an authority to encourage
them to make a difference by using the resources more flexibly across
the whole area, and between partners, to deliver local, regional and
national priorities, including those of the emerging LAA. The authority
therefore will be assessed, as part of the Comprehensive Area
Assessment, on the value it has delivered and the difference it has made
from using the resources for the residents of Warwickshire.
3.2
The difficulty in reconciling these two competing priorities is compounded by
the late announcement of both the total and constituent parts of ABG and the
timing in relation to the County Council’s budget setting. It is therefore
inevitable that to a significant degree 2008/09 will be a transitional year.
Indeed GOWM have made it clear they also view 2008/09 as a transitional
year and will not be expecting a significant redirection of resources towards
the emerging priorities for Warwickshire in this first year.
3.3
Taking these constraints on board a draft framework for allocating Area Based
Grant is proposed as follows:
•
2008/09 is viewed as a transitional year for the allocation of ABG, with
all allocations only being confirmed for one-year.
•
For 2009/10 and beyond proposals for spending ABG are brought
forward from both the County Council and through the PSB as part of
the normal timetable/process for setting the County Council’s budget.
•
In 2008/09 the on-going commitments in terms of staffing and
contracts flowing from the current use of grants, by partner
organisations, that are now included in ABG, are met.
•
Over and above this, where elements of ABG were pooled as part of
the LAA in 2007/08, allocation of these elements of the ABG is
reconfirmed as a decision for the PSB.
•
Uncommitted resources, once the above allocations have been made,
are allocated on a competitive basis, with proposals for use of the
grant coming forward to Cabinet and then on to Council for approval.
•
The criteria for allocating the uncommitted resources should take
account of:
o Any mandatory areas of spending
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o The views of the PSB, the County Council and partner
organisations as to the local priorities in Warwickshire, and
o Resourcing the priorities and targets included in the emerging
new LAA.
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Commitments
4.1
As has been outlined above, although ABG has only been recently introduced
the majority of the grants included within it have been received by the County
Council for a number of years. These have contributed to the Council’s
service provision and in some cases Directorates have in place long term
commitments against these grants.
4.2
A review of these commitments has taken place and the results are attached
at Appendix A. The appendix shows both internal and external commitments
identified by Directorates and a commentary on the nature of the commitment.
The balancing figure is then the level of uncommitted resources. The analysis
of the grants has also been split between existing LAA Pooled Grants, NonPooled Grants and those new grants included as part of ABG for the first time
in 2008/09.
4.3
Table 2 below summarises the position on commitments in relation to the
2008/09 ABG. Subject to members agreeing the protocol in paragraph 3.3
above, £18.313 million of the 2008/09 ABG would be allocated to fund existing
commitments.
Table 2: Commitments against the 2008/09 AGB
External
Internal/ Uncommitted
Contracts
Staffing
Resources
Costs
£m
£m
£m
Existing Resources
LAA Pooled Grants
0.190
5.070
0.426
Warwickshire County Council
8.754
3.807
3.065
Total Existing Resources
8.944
8.887
3.491
New Resources
Total WCC ABG
Total
ABG
£m
5.686
15.626
21.312
0.256
0.236
0.259
0.751
9.200
9.113
3.750
22.063
4.4
The requirement for Council to make decisions on commitments is that
service providers need the confidence of knowing they can continue to
operate after 1 April 2008.
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Uncommitted LAA Pooled Grants
5.1
As shown in Table 2 above the uncommitted resources currently pooled within
the LAA total £0.426 million. Table 3 below shows the different elements that
make up this uncommitted resource. If members agree the protocol in
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paragraph 3.3 above this grant would be allocated to the PSB to decide on its
use, subject to any additional caveats members wish to place around the use
of the grants.
Table 3: 2008/09 Uncommitted LAA Pooled Grant
Commitments Uncommitted
Resources
£m
£m
Primary National Strategy Central
0.268
0.005
Co-ordination
Secondary National Strategy,
0.125
0.001
Behaviour and Attendance
Safer and Stronger Communities
0.164
0.420
Fund
Total
0.426
0.426
Total
£m
0.273
Percentage
Uncommitted
%
2%
0.126
1%
0.584
72%
0.983
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Warwickshire County Council Uncommitted Grants
6.1
As shown in Table 2 above the uncommitted resources from those grants
previously received by the County Council is £3.065 million. As part of the
2008/09 budget resolution Council committed itself to using all of the
Extended Schools Grant for the provision of this service. This decision uses
£0.560 million of the uncommitted resources leaving £2.505 million still
available for allocation.
6.2
At the Cabinet meeting on 13 March 2008, for recommendation on to Council
on 18 March 2008, members will be provided with the opportunity to consider
how they would wish to use these resources. To support them in making
these decisions members will receive information about how County Council
services would use the money, the views of the PSB on the use of any
resource and how the overall use of ABG links with the priorities of the
emerging LAA.
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New Resources
7.1
The final type of grant included within the ABG are the new resources. These
are the smallest element of the grants totalling only £0.751 million. Although
“new” some of these grants have commitments against them. This is because
the grants were previously paid to other partners who then commissioned
services from the County Council. This leaves only £0.259 million genuinely
new money and a significant proportion of this is accompanied by additional
mandatory obligations.
7.2
At the Cabinet meeting on 13 March 2008, for recommendation on to Council
on 18 March 2008, members will be provided with the opportunity to consider
how they would wish to use these resources.
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DAVE CLARKE
Strategic Director, Resources
Shire Hall
Warwick
21 February 2008
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Appendix A
Warwickshire Area Based Grant
Grant
Issued WCC
Lead
by
Purpose of the Grant
External
contracts
£000
2008/09
Internal/
"Free"
staffing
costs
£000
£000
Commentary on Commitments
Total
£000
Grants Already Pooled
Connexions
The Connexions service provides advice and support for young people
to try and help them get where they would like to be. Connexions is a
modern public service and young people are actively involved in its
design and delivery. The service is managed locally by Connexions
Partnerships that bring together all the key youth support services.
-
4,220
-
4,220 These are 117 permanent full time equivalent posts that have
worked for Connexions for several years.
-
159
-
159 This grant has been given to Connexions to provide services on
the basis of an SLA. See Connexions above.
Positive Activities for Young People
DCLG CYPF Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) was a three-year
programme for young people aged 8-19, at risk of social exclusion or
of being involved in community crime.
Primary National Strategy Central
Coordination
DCSF
CYPF Support local authorities central coordination costs in delivering the
next phase of the Primary National Strategy, including supporting the
introduction of revised literacy and numeracy frameworks, greater
focus on targeting underperforming schools and under attaining pupils
and supporting personalisation.
20
248
5
273 Salaries for Primary Nation Strategy advisers/administrative staff.
The grant represents only half the total expenditure since
previously the sum had to be match-funded by the core budget.
Secondary National Strategy Central
Coordination
DCSF
CYPF Support local authorities central coordination costs in delivering the
next phase of the Secondary National Strategy, including greater focus
on targeting underperforming schools and under attaining pupils and
supporting personalisation.
CYPF Support local authorities in integrating Behaviour and Attendance into
the Secondary National Strategy.
20
233
-
60
65
1
90
74
420
253 The funding covers the salary and associated costs of 9 advisers
and their managers. £20k paid to external suppliers. The grant
represents only half of the total expenditure since previously the
sum had to be match-funded by the core budget.
126 Funding 1.4 full-time equivalent staff and £60,000 paid to Learning
and Behavioural Support Services (LABSS) for one full time
d i external contracts relate to a SSCF Co-ordinator. Internal
584 The
Secondary National Strategy Behaviour DCSF
and Attendance
Safer and Stronger Communities Fund DCLG CP
School Travel Advisors
DCSF
Aimed at tackling crime, anti-social behaviour and drugs, empowering
communities, and improving the condition of streets and public
spaces; in particular for disadvantaged neighbourhoods where these
issues often require more attention. Resources are also o used to fund
the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRP's).
income related to fixed contract employees for ASB Officers, DAAT
posts and Community safety analyst. Plus PPO co-ordinator and 3
PPO Posts on fixed contracts.
CYPF To fund local authority based school travel advisers (STAs) helping
schools carry out surveys and prepare and implement travel plans.
Grants Already Pooled
Allocation summary listing updated v2.xls
1
-
71
-
190
5,070
426
71 This grant is used by CYPF to commission services from E&E to
develop school travel plans. 3 full time equivalent school travel
advisors are employed.
5,686
Appendix A
Grant
Issued WCC
Lead
by
External
contracts
£000
2008/09
Internal/
"Free"
staffing
costs
£000
£000
Total
£000
Existing County Council Grants
Care Matters White Paper
The Government is determined to improve the experiences of children
in care. Despite efforts to support them, there remains a significant
gap between the quality of life of young people in care and those
raised in supportive families. Bridging this gap requires urgent,
sustained action across central and local government, from
practitioners in all aspects of children and young people's lives, and
from their carers, friends and family.
-
-
234
234 There are a great number of mandatory responsibilities within the
"Care Matters" White Paper, these include items such as £100
trust fund tops up for Looked after Children (LAC), University
bursarships, custodial visits etc.
Carers
DH
AHCS To stimulate diversity and flexibility in the provision of breaks for carers
or direct services to carers to support them in their caring role.
1,471
203
294
1,968 A number of contracts to provide short break respite care in
voluntary/private sector are in place. The last of these expires on
31 March 2010. Internal costs relate to meeting the statutory
requirements to provide carers assessments and providing
support, well-being and advice services to carers.
Adults social care workforce
DH
AHCS To support the establishment of enhanced human resource
management practice across the whole of the social care workforce,
including ensuring appropriate levels of training and qualification in the
whole of the social care workforce. This will include staff working in the
private and voluntary sectors. The Human Resources Development
Strategy (HRDS) grant should support workforce planning and the
National Minimum Dataset.
205
873
144
1,222 External costs are quality payments to providers. Internal costs are
largely staffing costs to provide training and assessments to carers
and manage people training for qualifications.
Mental Capacity Act and Independent
Mental Capacity Advocate Service
DH
AHCS The Mental Capacity Act 2005 became law on 1st April 2007. DH
made resources available to enable Councils with Social Services
Responsibilities (CSSRs) to: a) train staff across their Implementation
Network to understand the implications of the Act and to act
accordingly; b) commission an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
(IMCA) service, and c) increase the staff time needed for assessments
of capacity and best interests decisions.
-
141
76
217 The internal staffing costs are for an IMCA Manager and for 2 fulltime equivalent IMCA's. These contracts are due to expire 31st
March 2010.
Mental Health
DH
AHCS To provide mental health services for adults of working age. Spending
proposals are discussed with the Mental Health National Service
Framework Local Implementation Network & agreed by key statutory
partnership agencies.
1,145
-
44
Preserved Rights
DH
AHCS To provide financial assistance in discharging responsibilities for
meeting the costs of residential care for people with preserved rights
from prior to 2002/03.
2,572
-
-
2,572 The money so used to fund the residential care of individual clients
who have been in care since before 2002/03. Actual attrition rates
have been less than the reduction in grant on an annual basis. The
balance has to be funded from other mainstream resources.
Supporting People Administration
DH
AHCS Contribution towards the costs of administering the Supporting People
programme.
-
323
-
323 Used for the administration of the supporting people grant. The
supporting people grant itself will become part of Area Based Grant
from 2009/10.
Choice Advisors
DCSF
CYPF To help families optimise their choices about school places using all
the information to hand, including over-subscription criteria, local
knowledge of what individual schools have to offer, information about
schools in different local authority areas, with additional advice
covering local authority school-admission regimes and individual
schools’ admission-criteria.
-
25
10
2
1,189 The resources are used on a range of external contracts, most of
which continue through to 2010/11.
35 The employment of a School Transfer Co-ordinator. The coordinator is on a full time fixed termed contract until 31/08/08. It is
intended to extend this contract until April 2011. The balance of
funding is used for running costs as well as information
publications that the service requires.
Appendix A
Grant
Issued WCC
Lead
by
External
contracts
£000
252
2008/09
Internal/
"Free"
staffing
costs
£000
£000
-
Total
£000
252 The money is used to pay external SIPs, headteachers and
inspectors who work with all schools on improvement matters. All
SIPs have been employed on a three year term per school.
Secondary SIPs are on year two, whilst primary SIPS are on year
one.
105 This is the source of funding for implementing the Healthy Schools
programme. The money covers staff costs and running costs as
well as information publications and training to schools that the
service requires in order to be effective.
Schools Improvement Partners (SIP)
DCSF
CYPF To provide financial assistance to an authority to support its
management of the SIP function. This includes contracting with
SIPs; deploying them; developing SIPs professionally; and managing
their performance.
Education Health Partnership
DCSF
CYPF To support the maintenance and development of local healthy schools
programmes in meeting the requirements of the National Healthy
Schools Programme.
-
81
24
Extended School Start-Up Costs
DCSF
CYPF Intended to support schools, by providing access to a core set of
extended services, in raising standards of pupil motivation, aspiration,
achievement and behaviour and contributing to a wide range of other
Government targets including childcare, children’s services,
community cohesion, neighbourhood renewal, adult learning,
combating child poverty, health inequalities and crime reduction.
-
446
590
1,036 The Children Act, 2004 places certain legal requirements on local
authorities in order to ensure the delivery of extended services in or
through schools. The external contracts are in the form of grants to
organisations and to schools for a fixed three-year period. The
internal staffing costs include temporary staff contracted until
August 2011 plus permanent staff. The grant is to strategically
support the delivery of extended services through:
• Central staffing team
• Grants to schools for the employment of cluster schools based
staff (cluster co ordinators)
• Grants to schools to support the development of partnership
activities and access to services
• Commissioning agencies and services
Schools Intervention Grant
DCSF
CYPF To raise standards where a school has received a low OFSTED rating
before the school requires special measures.
-
-
163
163 This grant provides financial support to successful schools so that
they can share their practice with less successful schools. For
example, the money has been used to pay Etone school for their
support to Hartshill School.
Sustainable Travel General Duty
DCSF
CYPF Assist fulfilling duties set out in Sustainable Schools Travel Strategy
(SSTS).
42
-
-
42 This grant is used by CYPF to commission services from E & E to
fund the implementation of the Home to School Transport Plan.
The money is used to develop and implement promotional
campaigns and systems to support the strategy.
Schools Development Grant
DCSF
CYPF Support improvements in teaching and learning in schools, leading to
higher standards of attainment for every learner.
-
748
265
3
1,013 Internal staffing costs include permanent posts in the ICT
Development Service, a contribution towards teacher salaries in
the Autism Team, a teachers salary in the Complex Needs Team
and the training and development programme for teaching
assistants and support staff. Approximately £80,000 is spent on the
salary costs of Educational Development Service trainers. There
are also costs for permanent staff within the Educational
Development Service for administrative support for advanced skills
teachers. For Learning and Behavioural Support Services (LABSS)
costs are internal used for best practice learning support units,
dyslexia strategy and LABSS SLA (one and a half days a week
consultancy from LABSS leadership team.
Appendix A
Grant
Issued WCC
Lead
by
External
contracts
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services (CAMHS)
DH
CYPF To enable Councils with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSRs) to
carry forward their joint strategies with the NHS and other agencies to
develop CAMHS under S.31 of the Local Government Act 2003 in
accordance with local needs & priorities, as set out in local CAMHS
Development Strategies. Up to 5% of the grant can be spent on capital
projects including the development of IT infrastructure & investment in
the built up environment.
Children's Fund
DCSF
CYPF Launched in November 2000 as part of the government's commitment
to tackle disadvantage among children and young people. The
programme aims to identify at an early stage children and young
people at risk of social exclusion, and make sure they receive the help
and support they need to achieve their potential.
14-19 Flexible Funding Pot
DCSF
CYPF To promote co-ordination between school , colleges etc. to create
greater options for pupils including non academic qualifications.
Teenage Pregnancy (the team is now
known as Respect Yourself)
DCSF
CYPF To support the implementation of local teenage pregnancy strategies
& ensure that robust arrangements are in place for the co-ordination &
delivery of agreed local action plan which underpin delivery of the 10
year National Pregnancy Strategy (launched in 1999). Includes
allocation to fund teachers on a Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) Personal, Social & Health Education (PSHE) certification
programme.
Detrunking
DfT
E&E
To provide support in recognition of local authority's responsibilities for
the routine maintenance of roads that were previously the
responsibility of the Highways Agency.
Road Safety Grant
DfT
E&E
Rural Bus Subsidy
DfT
E&E
£000
275
2008/09
Internal/
"Free"
staffing
costs
£000
£000
331
-
Total
£000
606 Of the external payments £172,000 is committed for a minimum of
4 months and £103,000 for a minimum of 16 months. £205,000 is
spent on internal services and these agreements come to an end
within the next 16 months. £46,000 is spent on a Commissioning
Manager.
-
125
815
940 There are a number of commissioned services relating to 5 to 13
year olds. The contract for these services run to 31/03/08, but the
Directorate would wish to continue to commission most of the
services. The contracts are for Youth Inclusion work (YISP) which
supports the early intervention programme for younger children,
short breaks for disabled children, mental health support and other
services. Notice can be given for any of these contracts at any
time, however it is the Directorates view that it would be difficult to
justify suddenly terminating these contracts. Internal staffing costs
are for 4 posts plus a £10,000 contribution to support county
parenting.
30
100
23
-
159
28
153 To ensure there is a local 14-19 delivery framework for
collaboration between commissioners and providers of education
e.g. timetabling, transport, Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG)
and workforce development. 10% to 15% is used to support joint
initiatives with partner agencies.
187 Most of the internal costs relate to staffing who deliver the Respect
Yourself campaign. The cost of the service exceeds the grant and
the County Council funds the remaining costs from it's own
resources.
389
-
-
389 This funding is part of the funding for Carillion Highway
Maintenance Contract. When an A-road is detrunked, responsibility
passes to the local authority. This funding is used to fund the
maintenance of the detrunked road.
to replace the funding provided for safety cameras via the netting off
funding arrangement for the National Safety Camera Programme.
1,227
188
355
1,770 External payments are made to Warwickshire Police under an
Service Level Agreement (SLA) for safety camera and other
enforcement activities. There is a payment to Her Majesty's Courts
Service under a SLA to enable them to collect fines or fixed
penalties and endorse licences as part of safety camera
operations. The costs are largely staffing costs for safety camera
operations. On 6 December 2007 Cabinet resolved that Her
Majesty's Court Service would be given a revenue allocation
subject to the Road Safety Element of the Road Safety Grant of
Area Based grant being made available in full for the County
Council for road safety and safety camera work.
Introduced in 1998/99. This revenue funding pays for new or enhanced
rural bus services, their marketing and administration.
1,043
-
-
1,043 The Subsidy funds 40% of financially supported bus services in
Warwickshire. These are under contract for up to 4 years (although
expiry dates differ between contracts) and are subject to a 4-month
termination clause.
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Appendix A
Grant
Issued WCC
Lead
by
Extended Rights to Free Transport
External
contracts
£000
103
Local Authorities must provide transport where they consider it
necessary to ensure that a child goes to school. Where this transport
is needed it must be provided free of charge. The rights to this free
transport have recently been extended.
Existing County Council Grants
8,754
5
2008/09
Internal/
"Free"
staffing
costs
£000
£000
64
-
3,807
3,065
Total
£000
167 Staffing costs associated with the need to assess applications for
free transport against the introduction of these extended rights and
changes to WCC Home to School transport policy concerning
vacant seats.
15,626
Appendix A
Grant
Issued WCC
Lead
by
External
contracts
£000
2008/09
Internal/
"Free"
staffing
costs
£000
£000
Total
£000
"New" Grants
Child Death Review Processes
Children's social care workforce
DH
From April 2008 all Local Children Safeguarding Boards (LCSB) will be
putting in place mechanisms to review child deaths.
-
-
47
CYPF To support the establishment of enhanced human resource
management practice across the whole of the social care workforce,
including ensuring appropriate levels of training and qualification in the
whole of the social care workforce. This will include staff working in the
private and voluntary sectors. The Human Resources Development
Strategy grant should support workforce planning and the National
Minimum Dataset.
-
119
-
119 This is a mix of additional statutory training needs of NQ social
workers as well as post qualification training awards and courses.
256
117
-
373 It is unclear whether the advocacy project is internal or external or
when it finishes.
-
-
212
212 This is a mandatory service. Currently tenders are being sought to
provide this service for three years, as the county council is not
permitted to undertake this function internally.
Total New Grants
256
236
259
751
Total
9,200
9,113
3,750
22,063
Learning and Disability Development
Fund
To support implementation of the agenda set out in the learning
disability white paper "Valuing People". Until 2007/08 this has been
allocated to PCTs for local Learning Disability Partnership Boards to
determine its allocation. This service has previously been
commissioned from the County Council, hence the on-going
commitments.
Local Involvement Networks
To commission a public involvement in health scrutiny service. This
service was previously commissioned by the Health Authority.
6
47 The authority is planning to join a West Midlands Authority
Consortium to provide this Statutory review service, with the aim to
increase the effectiveness of the funds made available.

Cabinet 21 February 2008 Allocation of 2008/09 Area Based Grant

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