Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Head of Financial Services which provided the Committee with details of the forecast outturn budget position for the Children and Young People’s service grouping, highlighting major variances in comparison with the budget for the year, based on the position to the end of June 2017 (for copy see file of minutes).

Councillor Kennedy raised an issue in connection with school transport costs, advising the committee that in her electoral division, local primary schools were oversubscribed and children were being transported to schools several miles away. She suggested that it would be more prudent if additional classrooms were added to the schools, as there were also a number of housing developments in the area.

The Chairman added that she had experienced similar and Section 106 monies had been used to provide additional classrooms. It was suggested that Councillor Kennedy take up the matter with the Planning Team to feed the information through to masterplans.

Councillor Durham asked for clarification in relation to employee costs increasing by 16% and asked which areas had increased.  The Finance Manager advised that there had been extra investment, with an additional family’s first team in the Easington area and a business support team had been brought into the service too.

Resolved:

That the report be noted