PAPER B
ADULT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SELECT COMMITTEE
– 16th SEPTEMBER 2004
BUDGET MONITORING REPORT AS AT END OF JULY
2004
REPORT OF THE PORTFOLIO HOLDER FOR ADULT AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SUMMARY/PURPOSE
This report sets out the budget and spending position
on revenue for the services within this Committee remit, as at the end of
July. The figures at Appendix 1 do not include budgets that
are controlled elsewhere. These are
monitored by the Committee, which bears responsibility for the item concerned. (For example, Resources Select Committee
monitors the building maintenance budget centrally, and building maintenance
costs are not therefore shown against individual services below). For
information a Building Maintenance monitor has been included at Appendix
1A.
RECOMMENDATIONS
To debate and make recommendations.
REVENUE EXPENDITURE
(2004/5)
The net expenditure statement up to 31st July 2004
for the Social Services and Housing budgets is set out in Appendix 1.
As part of the 2004/5 budget settlement the
Directorate has to achieve an efficiency savings target of £349,000. This has been identified along with the
on-going effect of the shortfall in the Promoting Independence Grant of
£148,000.
The Directorate is working towards a balanced budget
for the year. At this stage in the year
the Directorate is not projecting any significant variance to the budget.
This budget monitoring report now includes the
‘Safer Communities’ service area. The Culture and Leisure Division will be
moving into the Directorate in September 2004. The Culture element (previously
Community Development) of the Division will be shown as a separate area of
activity in the report for the October Committee meeting. At this time it is also intended to include
information on the income budgets as a separate item to the main revenue
monitoring report as this will be a significant item for monitor and scrutiny.
Budget reporting for services to children will
continue to be shown in this report until the actual transfer of the service
takes place in September 2004. At that
time the relevant Childrens Committee will receive those reports.
The Committee should
be aware that we have early indication of a potential pressure around the
Preserved Rights funding which could nationally be moving from a caseload basis
to a FSS formula basis. Due to the
number of Preserved Rights clients our funding is higher under a caseload basis
than our share under the formula system. The pressure at this stage is only an
estimate and subject to the actual formula adopted but it could be as much as
approximately £1m in 2005/6. In
addition the governments funding formula for 2005/6 will not be based on the
2001 census data which would have yielded Social Services approximately £1.6m
extra funding. The net effect of these
two factors is a pressure in 2005/6 of £2.6m.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
(2004/5)
The capital
expenditure is set out in Appendix 2. We will be reporting on this area at each
Committee. Most of the allocation is
for social housing. In most years, the
Housing Capital Programme is approved early in the year, when the
funding/programme is committed.
Building works proceed during the year, with the delivery/spend
occurring largely in the last quarter of the year.
FREE NURSING CARE
POOLED BUDGET
The monitoring report
will be finalised after the end of September and will be brought to this
committee when available.
Contact Point: Kerry
Hubbleday (
520600 ext.2213
COUNCILLOR GORDON KENDALL
Portfolio Holder For Adult and Community
Services