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Children Services Grant Awards

Meeting: 07/10/2020 - Cabinet (Resources) Panel (Item 5)

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[To approve the acceptance of three grants to support children and young people in Wolverhampton][Report to follow]

Decision:

1.      That the establishment of supplementary revenue expenditure budgets totalling £1,712,371 be approved and funded by:

a.      What Works for Children’s Social Care, Department for Education Grant of £411,675.

 

b.      Department for Education, Wellbeing for Education Return Grant (2020-2021) of £36,942.

 

c.      National Lotteries grant of £1,263,754 to extend the HeadStart programme until July 2022. 

 

2.   That the Council enter into such grant agreements as are necessary for the funds to be received by the Council.

 

Minutes:

Councillor John Reynolds presented the report on an overview of three grant awards to Children Services that would support the continued transformation journey of the service and support the Council's response to the priorities of Re Lighting Our City. Approval was requested to expenditure of £1,712,371 for the three grants allocated. Referring to the grant for the Social Workers in Schools programme, where from 12 schools identified for the pilot, six would randomly be selected to have a social worker embedded as part of the staff.  Councillor Reynolds informed Cabinet that whilst it would be a random selection, he had asked officers to give some thought to the randomness of the selection so as to avoid the situation of six schools in the east of the city having a social worker and there being none in the west of the city.

 

Resolved:

1.   That the establishment of supplementary revenue expenditure budgets totalling £1,712,371 be approved and funded by:

a.      What Works for Children’s Social Care, Department for Education Grant of £411,675.

 

b.      Department for Education, Wellbeing for Education Return Grant (2020-2021) of £36,942.

 

c.      National Lotteries grant of £1,263,754 to extend the HeadStart programme until July 2022. 

 

2.   That the Council enter into such grant agreements as are necessary for the funds to be received by the Council.