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Variance |
Variance |
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Month 5 |
Month 7 |
Movement |
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Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
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Director of Families, Children & Learning |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Health, SEN & Disability Services |
909 |
853 |
(56) |
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Education & Skills |
423 |
973 |
550 |
Increase in numbers and costs re Home to School Transport. |
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Children's Safeguarding & Care |
(1,494) |
(2,188) |
(694) |
Reduced forecast on cost of Residential care and social work teams. |
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Quality Assurance & Performance |
(54) |
(74) |
(20) |
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Libraries & Information Services |
(1) |
(1) |
0 |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(313) |
(151) |
162 |
In forecast above |
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Total Families, Children & Learning |
(530) |
(588) |
(58) |
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Adult Social Care Operations |
547 |
593 |
46 |
An
expensive Physical Community Care case has reduced by £0.169m as now invoiced
but is still being challenged. The original commitment was £1.133m. £0.218m
balances of unused Covid money has been moved from the Balance Sheet as
there is no further claim. |
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S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) |
1,156 |
1,735 |
579 |
This change relates to new cases, increased costs of some other cases and a change in client contributions. |
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Integrated Commissioning |
53 |
244 |
191 |
Carers Support has an expected contribution which has been show incorrectly in previous months of £0.170m |
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Life Events |
158 |
183 |
25 |
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Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Housing General Fund |
2,729 |
2,514 |
(215) |
Improvement on the income forecast for spot purchase accommodation (£0.300m); 'improvement on forecast for commissioning rough sleeper services (£0.217m); a forecast underspend on initiatives budget (£0.100m); offset by an increased overspend on Seaside Homes management and maintenance costs £0.190; Increased costs of leased TA mainly due to the increased cost of HB subsidy loss £0.133m; overspend in the travellers service £0.052m |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(633) |
(727) |
(94) |
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Total Housing, Care & Wellbeing |
4,010 |
4,542 |
532 |
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City Transport |
541 |
229 |
(312) |
£0.339m pressure in relation to leased car park profit share arrangements, and £0.129m reduction in off street parking reflecting poorer performance. This is offset by net PCN improvements of £0.250m after increased costs of PCN issuance, £0.050m improvement on on-street parking and £0.208m improvement on staffing and other costs. Hording Income has improved forecasts by £0.300m due to new large scale hoardings being issued, this is offset by £0.230m of shortfalls in highway assessment income, due to decreases in activity. £0.097m improvement in highways operations from controlled expenditure and vacancies. Inflation arrangement on Bus Shelter Advertising Income improving forecasts by £0.072m. |
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City Environment |
(220) |
(242) |
(22) |
Revised staffing forecasts reflecting vacancies |
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City Development & Regeneration |
466 |
387 |
(79) |
£0.030m increase in gasworks inquiry counsel fees and further reductions in net Building Control fees of £0.080m offset by planned reductions in consultancy spend and staffing vacancies of £0.188m |
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Culture, Tourism & Sport |
45 |
10 |
(35) |
Increased income in Tourism and Marketing of £0.028m and other reduced expenditure |
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Property & Design |
993 |
1,016 |
23 |
Forecast overspend on corporate utilities by £0.070m. Revised turnover rents anticipated reducing rent income in the year by £0.071m. Increased costs relating to commercial units of £0.065m. £0.025m underspend within education property management as a result of revised staffing forecasts reflecting vacancies. Offset by review of facilities works and expenditure controls of £0.157m |
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Safer Communities |
(93) |
(195) |
(102) |
Revised staffing forecasts reflecting vacancies |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Total City Services |
1,732 |
1,205 |
(527) |
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Policy, Communications & Leadership Office |
62 |
159 |
97 |
Mainly driven by revision of staffing cost overspends in CEO and Policy team cost centre. |
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Legal & Democratic Services |
(50) |
51 |
101 |
A combination of overspends in member allowance due to governance change plus cabinet member cover offset partly by vacancy control and external income generation in legal services contribution |
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Elections & Land Charges |
(137) |
(132) |
5 |
Small overspends in operational budgets offsetting part of the income |
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Customer, Modernisation & Performance Insight |
(20) |
(52) |
(32) |
Increase in forecast staffing underspends in the service |
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Finance |
346 |
370 |
24 |
Increase in forecast audit fees. |
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Procurement (Mobo) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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HR & Organisational Development |
79 |
29 |
(50) |
Increase in forecast for advertising income plus small improvement on salaries forecast. |
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Information Technology & Digital |
(100) |
(120) |
(20) |
Improvement in salary forecast and reduction in estimated Contract costs, offset by some increases in costs for the Data Centre and Microsoft Agreement. |
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Welfare Revenue & Business Support |
(154) |
(197) |
(43) |
An improvement in the staffing underspend forecast. |
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Communities, Equality & Third Sector |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Contribution to Orbis |
17 |
11 |
(6) |
underspends on Internal Audit, Finance and Treasury partially offset by an overspend in Insurance |
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Directorate wide |
278 |
0 |
(278) |
Overspend now embedded in main service budgets. |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(278) |
0 |
278 |
Recovery measures now embedded in main service budgets. |
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Total Corporate Services |
43 |
119 |
76 |
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Bulk Insurance Premia |
700 |
700 |
0 |
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Capital Financing Costs |
(425) |
(710) |
(285) |
Decrease in expected borrowing costs due to delay in borrowing, offset by reduced investment income by further reducing investment balances |
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Levies & Precepts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Unringfenced Grants |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Housing Benefit Subsidy |
589 |
589 |
0 |
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Other Corporate Items |
2,574 |
2,278 |
(296) |
£0.238m additional profit from Homes for the city of Brighton & Hove, £0.021m unrequired working balance, £0.037m reduction in unallocated VFM savings unmet |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(1,364) |
(1,327) |
37 |
Reduction in recovery measures due to savings now met elsewhere. |
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Total Centrally-held Budgets |
2,074 |
1,530 |
(544) |
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Total General Fund |
7,329 |
6,808 |
(521) |
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