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i)            
That Council approves the following changes to the
revenue budget
 
a)   
One off funding to be funded from reserves to enable
the delivery of the OFSTED Local Area Partnership Priority Plan of
£707k.
 
b)   
To increase the staffing budget to accommodate the
recruitment of permanent staff into Education Support Services of
£141k for Education Psychology Services and £66k for
Education Health and Care Services in 2024/25 and ongoing into the
MTFP.
 

ii)           
That Council approves the following changes into the
capital programme
 
a)   
The re-profiling of the Highways maintenance capital
funding scheme, to bring forward budget of £1.5m into
2024/25, £500k into 2025/26 and reduce the budget by
£2m in 2026/27, therefore no budget change overall to the
£9m additional funding that was added to the budget by the
Council.
 
b)   
The virement from the Phase 2 Refugee Resettlement
programme scheme to Rough Sleepers Accommodation budget of
£2.478m.
 
c)   
The virement from the development pool stock
condition survey scheme to general fund budget for stock condition
and work transformation scheme of £1m.
 
Reasons for Decisions:
·        
These are set out in greater detail
within section 5 of the report, but can be summarised as helping to
meet the Council’s corporate plan objectives:
- Safe and
thriving places
- Active,
fulfilled lives
 
Alternative Options Considered:
·        
Alternative options considered for the
SEND services improvements can be summarised as follows:
-

o  
Do nothing – continue to operate
inadequate service as outlined in the

OFSTED inspection

o  
Adopt improvement recommendations as
outlined in the OFSTED

Action Plan
 
·        
Alternative options considered for the
capital programme can be summarised as follows: -
o  
No alternative options were considered
as all requests are either virements or re-profiling of existing
schemes already approved by Council.