Issue - meetings

(Cabinet Members with Special Responsibility Councillors Bryning and Fletcher)

Report of Corporate Director (Regeneration).

(Cabinet Members with Special Responsibility Councillors Bryning and Fletcher)

The Corporate Director (Regeneration) submitted a report informing Members about the progress towards securing Supporting People Programme Funding for the Targeted Intervention Project and seeking approval to accept £49,800 external funding for the project and to proceed with project implementation.

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment and officer preferred option, were set out in the report as follows:

Option 1 – Accept the external funding offer of £49,800 from the Supporting People Programme and seek to implement the project, from within existing staff resources, where possible.

Accepting the funding will create new employment opportunities and could enable the transfer of an existing project officer over to one of the new posts, if funding is not secured into 2010/11 for the Vulnerable Households Project. It will also add value to the Worklessness Project working along side to support the offer made to target the adult working population claiming out of work benefits in our most deprived wards within the district.

Option 2 – Reject the funding offer. This would result in a lost opportunity to deliver the project and the associated benefits as identified within the report.

The officer preferred option is Option 1 – Accept the external funding offer of £49,800 from the Supporting People Programme and seek to implement the project, from within existing staff resources, where possible. This will allow the recruitment of 2 temporary, full time posts creating new employment opportunities to deliver support to 30 households with a view to engaging households with the Worklessness Project if appropriate over the 12 month funding period.

It was moved by Councillor Fletcher and seconded by Councillor Bryning:-

“That the recommendations, as set out in the report, be approved.”

Members then voted:-

Resolved unanimously:

(1)       That the offer of £49,800 Supporting People Programme Funding for the Targeted Intervention Project be accepted and that the General Fund Revenue Budget be updated accordingly to reflect the additional expenditure and grant funding.

(2)       That officers be authorised to implement the Project.

Officers responsible for effecting the decision:

Corporate Director (Regeneration)

Head of Economic Development and Tourism

Reasons for making the decision:

The decision will provide an opportunity to extend the support services offered by the Integrated Support Team, and build on previous successful engagement within the community.