PAPER B
ADULT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SELECT COMMITTEE
– 18 NOVEMBER 2004
BUDGET MONITORING REPORT AS AT END OF
SEPTEMBER 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
September. 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 3.
RECOMMENDATIONS
To debate and make recommendations
REVENUE EXPENDITURE
(2004/5)
The net expenditure statement up to 30th September
2004 for the Adult and Community Services Directorate 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 projecting an overspend of approximately £72,000.
This is approximately 0.3% of the net budget of the Directorate. This is deemed
to be within the limits of tolerance and will continue to be closely monitored.
This budget monitoring report now includes the
‘Safer Communities’ service area and the Cultural Services division. Also included for information at Appendix 2 is an income monitoring
report.
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
4. 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
Free Nursing Care Pooled Budget Monitoring Report to the end of quarter 2 (1
April – 30 September 2004) is attached at Appendix
5. The report shows that there is a projected year-end underspend of
approximately £154,000. Any underspend
at year-end will be shared between the organisations based on the respective
contributions made to the pool. Based
on the projected underspend amount, Social Services would receive approximately
£116,000 and the Primary Care Trust would receive approximately £38,000. However at this stage it is anticipated that
this underspend may be required to fund any increase in costs arising from the
approaching winter period.
Contact Point: Kerry
Hubbleday (
520600 ext.2213
COUNCILLOR GORDON KENDALL
Portfolio Holder for Adult and Community
Services