Issue - meetings

To receive a verbal update on the Financial Settlement.

Members are asked to agree and approve recommendations of the Panels and OSC for referral to Cabinet for consideration.

Councillor Winskill in the Chair

Councillor Winskill asked for any comments or updates to the recommendations.

Councillor Newton advised that the recommendation at paragraph 15.5 of the report had been amended to include Campsbourne, St Michaels and John Loughborough schools and to remove Heartlands.  The recommendation with regards to BSF funding had now been removed, as there was no mechanism to protect the funding.

Councillor Adamou advised of the concerns raised at the Adults & Health Scrutiny Panel with regards to the Public Health budget not being available for discussion by the Panel due to delays in the council being informed of it’s allocation and stated that the Panel felt that should see this as soon as possible, as it was the responsibility of Scrutiny to scrutinise budget proposals.

The Committee were informed that the Public Health allocation was approximately £17million, however, it should be noted that whilst the Council was gaining this allocation, the Clinical Commissioning Group was losing it and therefore, this was not additional funding.

RESOLVED that the recommendations be agreed.

ACTIONS:

Update recommendations on school funding and Building Schools for the future.

ACTION: Melanie Ponomarenko

Discuss a way forward to enable the A&HSP consider the Public Health budget.

ACTION: Melanie Ponomarenko / Councillor Adamou