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CENTRAL EXPENDITURE BUDGET 2020/21 – Historic Commitments

Meeting: 08/10/2019 - Schools Forum (Item 10)

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Report of the Corporate Director for Children and Adults and the Chief Finance Officer

 

Analysis of attainment data for Children in Care to follow.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Ceri Walters, Head of Commercial Finance, introduced the report setting out the recommendations of the Schools Forum Sub-Group on specific items of expenditure for inclusion in the 2020/21 budget setting process. The Sub-Group met on 25 September 2019 and were content to accept the proposals put forward by the LA on the funding of historic commitments for the financial year 2020/21.

 

Judith Kemplay, Chair, went through appendices C-F of the report which go into further detail on the combined budget contributions and their impact on Nottingham City pupils. These were closely scrutinised by the Sub-Group.

 

RESOLVED to

 

(1)  approve in principle the historic commitments set out below, totalling £6.570m, noting the additional historic detail set out in the report:

 

Service description

Total cost

Contribution to combined budgets

Family Support - £0.981m

£2.887m

Integrated Placements - £1.327m

Safeguarding Training - £0.109m

Virtual School - £0.470m

Termination of employment costs

£1.608m

Prudential borrowing

£0.274m

Capital expenditure from revenue accounts

£0.801m

SEN Transport

£1.000m

Total

£6.570m

 

Terry Smith (maintained primary schools) wished for his abstention on the vote to be recorded.

 

(2)  note that the Schools Forum Sub-Group were in agreement to recommend the Schools Forum the approval of the historic commitments;

 

(3)  note that if historic commitments are less than anticipated the funding of these commitments will be amended in the budget report in January 2020.