ADULT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
SELECT COMMITTEE – 17th JUNE
2004
BUDGET MONITORING AS AT END
OF APRIL 2004 AND PROVISIONAL OUTTURN FOR 2003/04
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 April. 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.
A provisional revenue outturn
report has also been included at Appendix 3.
This is still subject to any final adjustments that may be made as the
closedown process is finalised.
REVENUE
EXPENDITURE (2004/5)
The net expenditure statement up to 30th
April 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. Compared to the
position for 2003/4 (previous year) this is a considerable achievement.
The Directorate is working towards a balanced
budget for the year. The inflation
contingency has still to be allocated and a large part of this contingency will
be applied to salary budgets once the pay award has been determined. If the pay award is in excess of the 2.8%
budgeted inflation this will cause a pressure on the directorate’s budget. For
example if the pay award is 3% this will cause a pressure of approximately
£28,000, this figure would rise to £97,000 if the increase is 3.5%.
The budget monitoring report will be adjusted
in the future to take into account the merger of Drug Action Team and Crime and
Disorder Team budgets into the ‘Safer Communities’ service area.The Leisure and
Community Development Division which will be moving into the Directorate later
this year will also be shown as a separate area of activity at the appropriate
time. 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 reports.
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.
REVENUE
EXPENDITURE PROVISIONAL OUTTURN FOR 2003/4
The
provisional revenue outturn report is included at Appendix 3. At this stage
the report is still provisional and subject to any further amendments that may
be required at the closedown process is finalised. The projected outturn for the Directorate is an overspend of
approximately £63,000 which is approximately 0.2% of the total net budget.
The income
position regarding community care client contributions resulted in an
under-recovery of income against budgeted income of approximately
£151,000. With this factor in mind a
net overspend of £63,000 is deemed to be a very satisfactory outturn position
for the Directorate.
FREE
NURSING CARE POOLED BUDGET
The
provisional outturn monitoring report for the nursing care pooled budget is
also included at Appendix 4.
The Free Nursing Care Pooled Budget monitoring
report for the period from 1 April 03 – 31 March 04 shows an underspend at the
year end of £524,071. This underspend will be shared between the organisations
based on the respective contributions made to the pool. Based on the provisional underspend amount,
Social Services would receive approximately £400,000 and the Primary Care Trust
would receive approximately £124,000.
The underspend has accrued largely because the budget is constructed on
a bed occupancy rate of 100%.
The underspend
attributable to Social Services of approximately £400,000 has been taken into account across the relevant client
groups in the overall position reported in Appendix 3.
The
contribution to the pooled budget for 2004/5 has recently been finalised and is set at an
occupancy rate of 90% which should prevent large underspends accruing in
this budget this year.
Contact
Point: Kerry Hubbleday ( 520600 ext.2213
G.KENDALL
Portfolio Holder For Adult and
Community Services