|
Forecast |
Forecast |
|
|
|
Variance |
Variance |
|
|
|
Month 5 |
Month 7 |
Movement |
|
Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
Director of Families, Children & Learning |
(5) |
(5) |
0 |
|
Health, SEN & Disability Services |
1,270 |
960 |
(310) |
Improved position on Children's Disability Placement budget due to fee reduction for one high cost client. Reduction in overspend against Adult LD community care budget. |
Education & Skills |
814 |
1,205 |
391 |
Increasing number and costs of pupils eligible for Home to School Transport. In addition costs re post 19 now charged to budget. |
Children's Safeguarding & Care |
1,405 |
1,154 |
(251) |
Mainly due to vacancies in Social work. |
Quality Assurance & Performance |
35 |
32 |
(3) |
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(284) |
(173) |
111 |
Savings shown above |
Total Families, Children & Learning |
3,235 |
3,173 |
(62) |
|
Adult Social Care |
1,164 |
1,079 |
(85) |
Temporary provider staff vacancies and a reduction in 65+ community care demand. |
S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) |
88 |
(208) |
(296) |
£0.300m Section 117 risk reserve utilised. |
Integrated Commissioning |
(266) |
(333) |
(67) |
Better Care Fund risk share. |
Life Events |
72 |
153 |
81 |
Due to one-off works required and a shortfall in income. |
Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(239) |
(104) |
135 |
Savings shown above. |
Total Health & Adult Social Care |
819 |
587 |
(232) |
|
Transport |
135 |
1,530 |
1,395 |
Forecast reductions in parking and permit fees of £1.522m offset by reductions in other parking expenditure of £0.196m. Increase in Highways Licencing Income of £0.027m, increased forecast for bus shelter electricity costs of £0.056m, and increased Agency Staff costs. Computer Software costs of £0.025m and Consultants Fees forecast to be less than budget by £0.019m. |
City Environmental Management |
919 |
717 |
(202) |
Reductions in expenditure for commercial waste collections of £0.054m, improvements in Public Toilet costs of £0.110m, improvements to other CityClean Operational Costs of £0.071m. Increased forecasted Hollingdean Depot costs of £0.090m offset by additional income activities of £0.023m. Other minor improvements in supplies & Services across the Service Areas. |
City Development & Regeneration |
297 |
121 |
(176) |
Reductions in expenditure on supplies & services of £0.059m. External funding received for sustainability projects and spend delays of £0.117m. |
Culture, Tourism & Sport |
113 |
100 |
(13) |
Small net decreases in overspend across various goods and services. |
Property |
339 |
255 |
(84) |
The planned Maintenance revenue programme is likely to underspend during 2022/23 plus there are various other improvements in areas such as in rental income at New England House and in year savings due to delays in recruitment. These are partially offset by NNDR costs for vacant properties and increases in NNDR charges following revaluations. |
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(279) |
(276) |
3 |
Venues improvements reflected in forecast. |
Total Economy, Environment & Culture |
1,524 |
2,447 |
923 |
|
Housing General Fund |
1,465 |
1,201 |
(264) |
Improved forecast on costs of Temporary Accommodation and further charges to capital for adaptations of £0.100m. |
Libraries |
0 |
100 |
100 |
Income shortfall. |
Communities, Equalities & Third Sector |
(37) |
(134) |
(97) |
Reduced spend on initiatives budget. |
Safer Communities |
(43) |
(105) |
(62) |
Staffing and review of non-pay spend. |
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(200) |
(200) |
0 |
|
Total Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities |
1,185 |
862 |
(323) |
|
Chief Executive Monitoring Office |
13 |
13 |
0 |
|
Policy & Communications |
40 |
(37) |
(77) |
Communications service recharges. |
Legal & Democratic Services |
132 |
158 |
26 |
Locum Lawyer costs. |
Elections & Land Charges |
45 |
68 |
23 |
Land Charges income drop due to downturn. |
Customer Modernisation & Data |
(20) |
(115) |
(95) |
Vacancy management. |
Finance (Mobo) |
(200) |
(211) |
(11) |
Vacancy management. |
Procurement (Mobo) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
HR & Organisational Development (Mobo) |
(20) |
(17) |
3 |
|
IT&D (Mobo) |
0 |
(300) |
(300) |
Vacancy management. |
Welfare Revenue & Business Support |
0 |
146 |
146 |
Council Tax S13A discount for carers relief, staffing and court costs income. |
Contribution to Orbis |
1,658 |
1,536 |
(122) |
Reduction in expected disaggregation costs. |
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total Governance, People & Resources |
1,648 |
1,241 |
(407) |
|
Bulk Insurance Premia |
110 |
110 |
0 |
|
Capital Financing Costs |
(560) |
(1,538) |
(978) |
Higher interest rates on balances. |
Levies & Precepts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Unringfenced Grants |
(79) |
(79) |
0 |
|
Housing Benefit Subsidy |
781 |
761 |
(20) |
Improvement in recovery of overpayments of former Council tax Benefit. |
Other Corporate Items |
4,451 |
4,073 |
(378) |
Removal of National Insurance - Social Care Levy |
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total Corporately-held Budgets |
4,703 |
3,327 |
(1,376) |
|
Total General Fund |
13,114 |
11,637 |
(1,477) |
|