Venue: Committee Room 5, Guildhall, Swansea. View directions
Contact: Liz Jordan 01792 637314
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Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: No disclosures of interest were made. |
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Prohibition of Whipped Votes and Declaration of Party Whips Minutes: No declarations were made. |
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Child and Family Services Draft Budget Proposals Invited to attend are Cllr Elliott King and Cllr Sam Pritchard, Cabinet Members for Children’s Services and relevant Social Services officers. Link to Cabinet Papers 20 February 2020, which contain the budget proposals (papers should be available online from 13 February 2020).
Minutes: Councillors Elliott King and Sam Pritchard, Cabinet Members for Children Services, Dave Howes, Director of Social Services and Julie Thomas, Head of Child and Family Services went through the proposed budget proposals in relation to Child and Family Services highlighting the main issues and answering questions. |
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Summarising Views and Making Recommendations
The Panel is asked to discuss and agree its views and
recommendations on the budget proposals in relation to Child and Family
Services which it would like to make to Cabinet. The conveners of each of the performance panels will feed in
the views of their panel to the Service Improvement and Finance Performance
Panel which meets on 19 February and has been convened to specifically look at
the draft budget. Chris Holley, Convener
of the Service Improvement and Finance Performance Panel will then attend
Cabinet on the 20 February to feed in the collective views of the scrutiny
performance panels. Minutes: The panel agreed the following views and recommendations on
the budget proposals in relation to Child and Family Services it would like to
make to Cabinet: ·
Panel expressed concern about the risks
associated with grants, in particular the increased risk as the Council relies
more and more on grant funding. ·
Panel was happy with the overall focus in the
budget on the priorities of this Council. ·
Panel noted the effective reduction of £1.35m of
core funding for Poverty and Prevention next financial year (the majority of
which is in Children’s Services), and an increase of £1.6m in Child and Family
Services, which will basically result in an increase of just £0.25m in an
overall budget of £42m. This is a very small increase compared to Adult
Services and a very small increase relative to the increase in the RSG. Following on from this meeting: The convener will feed in the views of this Panel, along
with the conveners of the other panels to the Service Improvement and Finance
Panel which meets on 19 February. The
convener of the Service Improvement and Finance panel will then attend Cabinet
on 20 February to feed in the collective views of the scrutiny performance
panels and write a letter to the Cabinet member. |