|
|
Forecast |
Forecast |
|
|
||||
|
|
Variance |
Variance |
|
|
||||
|
|
Month 7 |
Month 9 |
Movement |
|
||||
|
Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
||||
|
Director of Families, Children & Learning |
0 |
(15) |
(15) |
|
||||
|
Health, SEN & Disability Services |
853 |
622 |
(231) |
Reduction in overspend in Childrens Disability Placements. |
||||
|
Education & Skills |
973 |
1,068 |
95 |
Schools PFI additional costs. |
||||
|
Children's Safeguarding & Care |
(2,188) |
(2,468) |
(280) |
Savings on contracts, staff turnover in Social Work teams and improvements in care leaver costs. |
||||
|
Quality Assurance & Performance |
(74) |
(133) |
(59) |
|
||||
|
Libraries & Information Services |
(1) |
(15) |
(14) |
|
||||
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(151) |
0 |
151 |
Moved into the forecasts above. |
||||
|
Total Families, Children & Learning |
(588) |
(941) |
(353) |
|
||||
|
Adult Social Care Operations |
593 |
(1,087) |
(1,680) |
Demand growth assumption reduced by £0.490m. Reduced Adult Learning disabilities commitment by £0.481m. New West Sussex County Council (WSCC) case costing £0.188m. Over-accrual reduction of £0.367m. £0.179 transferred provision from the balance sheet. Delayed and frozen recruitment and imposed spending controls. |
||||
|
S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) |
1,735 |
1,522 |
(213) |
£0.022m growth used plus an over accrual reduction of £0.133m. |
||||
|
Integrated Commissioning |
244 |
119 |
(125) |
Frozen recruitment funding for two posts and payments to Crossroads and Direct payments have slowed in month 9. |
||||
|
Life Events |
183 |
148 |
(35) |
Scrutiny of expenditure and imposed spending controls. |
||||
|
Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
||||
|
Housing General Fund |
2,514 |
2,118 |
(396) |
Improvement of (£0.400m) for Seaside Homes by using the major work reserves; further costs in spot purchase of £0.120m due to recent increases in numbers needing to be accommodated; improved employee forecast (£0.132m). |
||||
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(727) |
(316) |
411 |
Housing GF - movement of £0.230m, remainder of the recovery plan incorporated into the Temporary Accommodation forecast. |
||||
|
Total Housing, Care & Wellbeing |
4,542 |
2,504 |
(2,038) |
|
||||
|
City Transport |
229 |
(1,417) |
(1,646) |
£0.400m from releasing Initiatives and consultancy budgets and a review of coast protection spend and other spending control items. £0.284m as a result of a fixed deal being reached for concessionary bus fares. £0.300m improvements in highways licencing and other expenditure costs. £0.180m improvement relates to budgeted costs allowable under BSIP grant. £0.282m improvement in parking incomes and £0.160m improvement in PCN debt recovery fees. |
||||
|
City Environment |
(242) |
269 |
511 |
Revised fleet forecasts reflecting increased borrowing costs from prior years’ purchases, increased spot and contract hire as a result of vehicles off the road adding £0.747m pressure. This is offset by £0.232m from a litter pick moving back to next financial year and staffing forecast reductions reflecting vacancies as part of spending controls. |
||||
|
City Development & Regeneration |
387 |
331 |
(56) |
£0.130m further reduction in Planning fee income and £0.049m Building Control fee income, offset by further vacancies in the service and release in year of planning reform initiatives, in year Net Zero initiatives and carry forward funding for City Design project in response to spending controls. Black Rock borrowing costs of £0.133m in year. |
||||
|
Culture, Tourism & Sport |
10 |
(129) |
(139) |
£0.600m potential pressure relating to the funding of pay award costs under the terms of the agreement with the Royal Pavilion Museums Trust. £0.160m reduction in sports facilities contract variation fees, premises and supplies costs. Revised Seafront income forecast improving forecast by £0.145m and release of £0.050m initiatives budget in response to spending controls. £0.187m improvement in arboricultural services. £0.148m improvement in wider City Parks from revised staffing forecasts reflecting vacancies and use of S106 supporting management costs of projects. £0.045m income increase in Venues. |
||||
|
Property & Design |
1,016 |
1,258 |
242 |
Shortfalls on Surveyors and Architects fees as a result of a reduced capital programme. |
||||
|
Safer Communities |
(195) |
(273) |
(78) |
Revised staffing forecasts reflecting vacancies. |
||||
|
Total City Services |
1,205 |
39 |
(1,166) |
|
||||
|
Policy, Communications & Leadership Office |
159 |
35 |
(124) |
Improvement in staffing forecast in Policy and Communications. |
||||
|
Legal & Democratic Services |
51 |
(58) |
(109) |
Improvement in income in Legal service and underspends in Democratic services staffing. |
||||
|
Elections & Land Charges |
(132) |
(153) |
(21) |
Savings in postage £0.007m, improvement in income forecast £0.004m and a new burdens funding £0.008m. |
||||
|
Customer, Modernisation & Performance Insight |
(52) |
(166) |
(114) |
Underspend is due to staffing vacancies, reduction in development work, stoppage of overtime, reduction in consultant support and reduction in training and other misc cost. |
||||
|
Finance |
370 |
305 |
(65) |
Mitigations in staffing cost. |
||||
|
Procurement (Mobo) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|||||
|
HR & Organisational Development |
29 |
(6) |
(35) |
Increase in forecast for advertising income plus small improvement on salaries forecast. |
||||
|
Information Technology & Digital |
(120) |
(205) |
(85) |
Reduced forecasts for Microsoft licencing, professional fees (by delaying some work), overtime/standby, hardware and other miscellaneous spend. |
||||
|
Welfare Revenue & Business Support |
(197) |
(192) |
5 |
Small adjustments of forecast. |
||||
|
Communities, Equality & Third Sector |
0 |
(22) |
(22) |
Staffing underspends. |
||||
|
Contribution to Orbis |
11 |
2 |
(9) |
Improvement in Orbis partnership underspend. |
||||
|
Total Corporate Services |
119 |
(460) |
(579) |
|
||||
|
Bulk Insurance Premia |
700 |
700 |
0 |
|
||||
|
Capital Financing Costs |
(710) |
(747) |
(37) |
Minor decrease in expected borrowing costs following reprofiling of the capital borrowing. |
||||
|
Levies & Precepts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
||||
|
Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
||||
|
Unringfenced Grants |
0 |
(13) |
(13) |
Transparency Code New Burdens. |
||||
|
Housing Benefit Subsidy |
589 |
1,039 |
450 |
£0.299m worsening on net collection of overpayments and £0.131m worsening on payment of particular benefit to vulnerable tenants which is not fully subsidised. |
||||
|
Other Corporate Items |
2,278 |
1,189 |
(1,089) |
Release of £1.000m risk provision and £0.114m other unallocated items held in reserve. Over achievement of £0.040m on National Insurance savings on AVC scheme. Increase of £0.065m in cost of 2024/25 pay award. |
||||
|
Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(1,327) |
0 |
1,327 |
Financial recovery measures related to the Organisational Redesign are now reflected across all services. |
||||
|
Total Centrally-held Budgets |
1,530 |
2,168 |
638 |
|
||||
|
Total General Fund |
6,808 |
3,310 |
(3,498) |
|
||||