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Forecast |
Forecast |
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Variance |
Variance |
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Month 7 |
Month 9 |
Movement |
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Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
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Commissioning & Communities |
425 |
(158) |
(583) |
Use of grant and one-off funding, including Public Health funding and ongoing spending control and vacancy management measures |
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Education & Learning |
168 |
(199) |
(367) |
Reduction in PFI Contractor costs, Early Year and Nursery Costs and Synergy Implementation Costs |
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Family Help & Protection |
972 |
536 |
(436) |
Use of Transformation and Young Futures grants, delays in placing children in in-house residential provision, reducing numbers of families receiving adoption allowances, ongoing vacancies and success of FRP measures, see below. |
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Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(120) |
0 |
120 |
See above |
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Total Families, Children & Wellbeing |
1,445 |
179 |
(1,266) |
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Adult Social Care |
4,004 |
3,472 |
(532) |
Increased spend on Physical & Sensory Community Care offset by increased income in Mental Health and reductions created by spending controls and line by line review of spend |
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Integrated Commissioning |
158 |
242 |
84 |
Increase in spend on Crossroads Project and Carers Support |
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Housing People Services |
5,238 |
4,944 |
(294) |
Mainly due to new block booked DPS contract transferring some spot units to block booked at a reduced rate |
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Homes & Investment |
(9) |
(10) |
(1) |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(1,159) |
(55) |
1,104 |
Primarily due to delay in the implementation several savings initiatives |
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Total Homes & Adult Social Care |
8,232 |
8,593 |
361 |
|
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City Infrastructure |
(2,271) |
(2,608) |
(337) |
Reduction in expenditure through releasing of maintenance revenue budgets that are used to support capital programmes in year |
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Culture & Environment |
(77) |
(444) |
(367) |
Impact of tightened spend controls being forecast. |
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Environmental Services |
549 |
367 |
(182) |
£0.100m improvement in purchases as an impact of tightened spend controls. Revised forecasts reflecting spends related to Food Waste Collection Project |
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Place |
726 |
439 |
(287) |
Increased planning income in addition to impact of tightened spend controls. |
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Digital Innovation |
(570) |
(790) |
(220) |
Continued reduction in forecast expenditure due to ongoing spending and vacancy controls. Vacancies continue to be held, plus some lower than expected costs on contracts. |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(150) |
0 |
150 |
Recovery Measure reflected in forecast |
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Total City Operations |
(1,793) |
(3,036) |
(1,243) |
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Cabinet Office |
(227) |
(488) |
(261) |
Underspend mainly driven by income generation in tourism and marketing, and savings in Greater Brighton Economic Board initiatives. |
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Corporate Leadership Office |
37 |
149 |
112 |
Movement is a result of mandatory training, staffing pressure and consultants fees. |
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Finance & Property |
1,248 |
1,064 |
(184) |
A combination of higher than anticipated charges in property services £0.211m, £0.140m adjustments to WRBS forecast on court income offset by reprofilling of budgets to capital in property services £0.360m and other income in the wider directorate. |
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Governance & Law |
(294) |
(455) |
(161) |
Combination of an increase in forecast income for Registrars, plus lower than expected costs for Coroner services. |
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People & Innovation |
(444) |
(492) |
(48) |
Movement is a result in improvement in staffing and operational spend savings in H&SFBS £0.150m offset by changes in forecast in HR services. |
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Contribution to Orbis |
68 |
68 |
0 |
No Movement |
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Total Central Hub |
388 |
(154) |
(542) |
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Bulk Insurance Premia |
195 |
195 |
0 |
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Capital Financing Costs |
(3,260) |
(3,733) |
(473) |
Net movements largely relating to the timing and value of new external borrowing compared to previous assumptions, managing cash flow requirements and seeking best value in a fluctuating interest rate environment. |
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Levies & Precepts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
0 |
(1,747) |
(1,747) |
Release of centrally held risk provision to support in year position. |
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Unringfenced Grants |
0 |
(496) |
(496) |
Estimate of potential redistribution of business rates levy surplus |
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Housing Benefit Subsidy |
915 |
5,640 |
4,725 |
Identification of additional subsidy loss for 2024/25 and 2025/26 relating to misallocation of claims on the subsidy claim form. |
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Other Corporate Items |
1,654 |
(580) |
(2,234) |
|
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Total Centrally-held Budgets |
(496) |
(721) |
(225) |
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Total General Fund |
7,776 |
4,861 |
(2,915) |
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