RAG Rating Key:	RAG for Service Areas	RAG for Directorates^(1)	RAG for General Fund
Red	Forecast overspend of 5% or more or £0.100m whichever is lower	Forecast overspend of 5% or more or £0.250m whichever is lower	Forecast overspend of 0.5% or more or £1.000m whichever is lower
Amber	Forecast overspend of less than 5% of budget or £0.100m, whichever is lower.	Forecast overspend of less than 5% of budget or £0.250m, whichever is lower.	Forecast overspend of less than 0.5% of budget or £1.000m, whichever is lower.
Green	Breakeven or forecast underspend	Breakeven or forecast underspend	Breakeven or forecast underspend

	2024/25	Forecast	Forecast
	Budget	Variance	Variance	RAG
	Month 7	Month 7	Month 7	Rating
Service	£'000	£'000	%	Month 7
Director of Families, Children & Learning	191	0	0.0%	Green
Health, SEN & Disability Services	9,920	702	7.1%	Red
Education & Skills	12,735	973	7.6%	Red
Children's Safeguarding & Care	41,371	(2,188)	-5.3%	Green
Quality Assurance & Performance	1,720	(74)	-4.3%	Green
Libraries & Information Services	3,633	(1)	0.0%	Green
Total Families, Children & Learning	69,570	(588)	-0.8%	Green
Adult Social Care Operations	83,252	146	0.2%	Red
S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT)	20,636	1,735	8.4%	Red
Commissioning & Partnerships	5,450	244	4.5%	Red
Life Events	239	183	76.6%	Red
Public Health	3,134	0	0.0%	Green
Housing General Fund	12,982	2,234	17.2%	Red
Total Housing, Care & Wellbeing	125,693	4,542	3.6%	Red
City Transport	(7,106)	229	3.2%	Red
City Environment	33,690	(242)	-0.7%	Green
City Development & Regeneration	3,392	387	11.4%	Red
Culture, Tourism & Sport	10,112	10	0.1%	Amber
Property & Design	2,388	1,016	42.5%	Red
Safer Communities	3,720	(195)	-5.2%	Green
Total City Services	46,196	1,205	2.6%	Red
Policy, Communications & Leadership Office	1,837	159	8.7%	Red
Legal & Democratic Services	3,509	51	1.5%	Amber
Elections & Land Charges	413	(132)	-32.0%	Green
Customer, Modernisation & Performance Insight	1,435	(52)	-3.6%	Green
Finance	2,182	370	17.0%	Red
Procurement (Mobo)	(39)	0	0.0%	Green
HR & Organisational Development	3,878	29	0.7%	Amber
Information Technology & Digital	8,082	(120)	-1.5%	Green
Welfare Revenue & Business Support	7,874	(197)	-2.5%	Green
Communities, Equality & Third Sector	2,638	0	0.0%	Green
Contribution to Orbis	2,925	11	0.4%	Amber
Total Corporate Services	34,734	119	0.3%	Amber
Sub Total	276,193	5,278	1.9%
Bulk Insurance Premia	3,822	700	18.3%	Red
Capital Financing Costs	7,997	(710)	-8.9%	Green
Levies & Precepts	242	0	0.0%	Green
Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions	64	0	0.0%	Green
Unringfenced Grants	(32,193)	0	0.0%	Green
Housing Benefit Subsidy	399	589	147.6%	Red
Other Corporate Items	1,170	951	81.3%	Red
Total Corporately-held Budgets	(18,499)	1,530	8.3%	Red
Total General Fund	257,694	6,808	2.6%	Red
Repairs & Maintenance	18,449	(450)	-2.4%	Green
Tenancy Services	14,900	496	3.3%	Red
Housing Management & Support	6,432	313	4.9%	Red
Housing Investment & Asset Management	2,924	115	3.9%	Red
Housing Strategy & Supply	1,578	(2)	-0.1%	Green
Council-owned Temporary Accommodation	958	85	8.8%	Red
Rent & Service Charges	(73,472)	(507)	-0.7%	Green
Capital Financing Costs	8,509	200	2.4%	Red
Direct Revenue Funding	19,722	(250)	-1.3%	Green
Total Housing Revenue Account	0	(0)	0.0%	Green
Individual Schools Budget (ISB)	137,798	0	0.0%	Green
Early Years Block (inc delegated to Schools)	25,566	(164)	-0.6%	Green
High Needs Block (exc delegated to Schools)	39,652	1,198	3.0%	Red
Exceptions and Growth Fund	3,397	124	3.7%	Red
Grant Income	(205,139)	0	0.0%	Green
Total Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG)	1,274	1,158	90.9%	Red

(¹) In the above tables the Dedicated Schools Grant and Housing Revenue Account are treated as Directorates for the purposes of RAG rating.