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Forecast |
Forecast |
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Variance |
Variance |
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COVID |
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Month 5 |
Month 7 |
Movement |
Movement |
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Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
|
Director of Families, Children & Learning |
(5) |
(1) |
4 |
0 |
|
|
Health, SEN & Disability Services |
2,037 |
1,966 |
(71) |
0 |
Small reduction in overspend against Adults LD community care budget but increases in overspends on children’s disability services |
|
Education & Skills |
1,211 |
1,014 |
(197) |
83 |
Mainly due to Grant Funding on Home to School Transport and Council Nurseries. |
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Children's Safeguarding & Care |
(1,442) |
(1,616) |
(174) |
23 |
Due to lower than expected increases in the costs of children in care and ongoing vacancies. |
|
Quality Assurance & Performance |
(12) |
4 |
16 |
0 |
Minor Variances. |
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(40) |
0 |
40 |
0 |
|
|
Total Families, Children & Learning |
1,749 |
1,367 |
(382) |
106 |
|
|
Adult Social Care |
5,806 |
3,443 |
(2,363) |
(3,202) |
Due to additional NHS England funding |
|
S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) |
366 |
313 |
(53) |
(472) |
Due to additional NHS England funding |
|
Integrated Commissioning |
4,588 |
4,748 |
160 |
9 |
Minor Variances. |
|
Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
28 |
Minor Variances. |
|
Total Health & Adult Social Care |
10,760 |
8,504 |
(2,256) |
(3,637) |
|
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Transport |
4,675 |
4,588 |
(87) |
61 |
Minor variances. |
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City Environmental Management |
166 |
700 |
534 |
534 |
This is substantially a revision of a forecast in the government's Sale, Fees & Charges grant for income losses related to waste disposal (£0.500m). This income and spend is managed through the Waste PFI reserve and any decision on revenue impact will be made at the year-end (as normal). |
|
City Development & Regeneration |
274 |
36 |
(238) |
(238) |
This movement is higher forecasts for underspends on services/supplies (lockdown related) and higher forecasts for staffing underspends due to delays in recruiting to several posts within Sustainability driven by COVID-19 uncertainty on recruitment. |
|
Culture, Tourism & Sport |
2,482 |
1,671 |
(811) |
495 |
The substantial improvement in the forecast is due to a range of factors including 1) confirmed HMRC job retention income (the furlough scheme) of approximately £0.300m which was not included in previous forecast; 2) an increased forecast for rental income for Seafront Properties due to a relatively good summer season helped by government support for shops/businesses; 3) an increase in ticket sales for Volks Railway over the summer season; 4) a reduced forecast for spending on casual staff and premises costs. The increase in the forecast impact of COVID-19 is the result of the income generating Brighton Centre now being forecast as closed for until the end of March 2021. |
|
Property |
1,677 |
1,250 |
(427) |
(193) |
The improved forecast is the result of a range of forecast movements across Property Services including forecasts for lower utilities costs and higher rental income. |
|
Total Economy, Environment & Culture |
9,274 |
8,245 |
(1,029) |
659 |
|
|
Housing General Fund |
8,494 |
7,988 |
(506) |
(448) |
Financial recovery measure for Temporary Accommodation (TA) Housing Benefit (HB) income recovery (£0.569m), release of reserves (£0.153m), delay to new services (£0.125m) all now reflected in the forecast. Improvements to income for TA (£0.287m), reduced void losses (£0.074m), offset by increases in spot purchase costs £0.102m and an increase in the forecast for rough sleeper accommodation costs £0.600m. |
|
Libraries |
178 |
143 |
(35) |
(35) |
Recovery measures incorporated into the forecast. |
|
Communities, Equalities & Third Sector |
185 |
170 |
(15) |
0 |
Recovery measures incorporated into the forecast. |
|
Safer Communities |
64 |
0 |
(64) |
(10) |
Staffing underspend. |
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(4,193) |
(3,150) |
1,043 |
965 |
Further financial recovery measures reflected in service forecast lines (£0.893m). Improvements in TA forecast means more Flexible Homelessness Support Grant (FHSG) is available for COVID-19 (£0.078m). Reduction in HB for rough sleepers forecast (£0.150m). |
|
Total Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities |
4,728 |
5,151 |
423 |
472 |
|
|
Finance (Mobo) |
(66) |
(66) |
0 |
0 |
|
|
HR & Organisational Development (Mobo) |
101 |
119 |
18 |
0 |
Increasing income pressures. |
|
IT&D (Mobo) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Procurement (Mobo |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Business Operations (Mobo) |
97 |
97 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Revenues & Benefits (Mobo) |
330 |
376 |
46 |
0 |
Expected further reduction in court costs income. |
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Housing Benefit Subsidy |
147 |
552 |
405 |
0 |
£0.295m worsening in net position on collection of overpayments, £0.095m worsening in pressure on benefit type for vulnerable tenants not fully subsidised and £0.015m worsening in collection of former Council Tax Benefit overpayments. |
|
Contribution to Orbis |
230 |
186 |
(44) |
0 |
Improving forecast position for Orbis Partnership, mainly vacancies. |
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Total Finance & Resources |
839 |
1,264 |
425 |
0 |
|
|
Corporate Policy |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Legal Services |
(50) |
(50) |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Democratic & Civic Office Services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Life Events |
200 |
201 |
1 |
0 |
Minor Variances. |
|
Performance, Improvement & Programmes |
(6) |
(6) |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Communications |
30 |
20 |
(10) |
0 |
Minor variances. |
|
Total Strategy, Governance & Law |
174 |
165 |
(9) |
0 |
|
|
Bulk Insurance Premia |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Capital Financing Costs |
(450) |
(753) |
(303) |
0 |
Increased investment balances and increased assumptions of average investment rate. |
|
Levies & Precepts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
(217) |
(217) |
0 |
0 |
|
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Unringfenced Grants |
(21,930) |
(26,712) |
(4,782) |
(4,782) |
Tranche 4 of COVID-19 funding. |
|
Other Corporate Items |
2,926 |
3,016 |
90 |
90 |
Laptops purchased for homeworking. |
|
Total Corporately-held Budgets |
(19,671) |
(24,666) |
(4,995) |
(4,692) |
|
|
Total General Fund |
7,853 |
30 |
(7,823) |
(7,092) |
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