PAPER B
ADULT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SELECT COMMITTEE
– 19th AUGUST 2004
BUDGET MONITORING REPORT AS AT END OF JUNE
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
June. 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 30th June 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. As this stage in
the year the Directorate is not projecting any significant variance to the
budget.
The budget monitoring report will be adjusted in
the next report 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 will be moving into the Directorate
in September 2004. The Community Development Division will be shown as a separate area of activity in
the report for the October Committee.
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.
The Committee should
be aware that we have early indication of a potential pressure around the
Preserved Rights funding which could 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 first quarterly
monitoring report will be finalised shortly and will be brought to this
committee when available.
Contact Point: Kerry
Hubbleday (
520600 ext.2213
CLLR G KENDALL
Portfolio Holder for Adult and Community
Services