Decision - Youth & Employability Trust Proposals

39.1    RESOLVED: That the Committee agreed:

That the Children, Young People & Skills Committee recommend that the Policy, Resources and Growth Committee approve the following recommendations:

(1)  That delegated authority be granted to the Executive Director of Families, Children & Learning: to enter into a competitive procurement process to secure the provision of youth services on a neighbourhood open access based model and youth work supporting vulnerable young people for a period of three years commencing on 1 April 2017 in order to secure the continuity of service provision in the shorter term

(2) That delegated authority be granted to the Executive Director of Families, Children & Learning to award and let the contracts for this procurement for a period of three years which contracts shall contain a provision providing for the transfer of those contracts to the Youth Employability Trust in the event that the Trust is established in due course.