Forward plan

WV Living Business Plan and Related Decisions New!

Decision maker:  Cabinet

Decision due:   9 Dec 2020

Lead officer:  Jaswinder Kaur, Claire Nye, David Pattison, Nick Alderman

Decision status:  Item Deferred

Notice of proposed decision first published: 01/12/2020

This decision will be taken under urgency procedures.

Reason for urgency:
The WV Living Business Plan was provided by WV Living Limited, a separate limited company, to the Council on Friday 27 November 2020 and therefore the Council has not had enough time to advertise the proposed decision on the Business Plan – the Business Plan has had to be reviewed by external auditors before the Council was happy to take it forwards, this has now happened.

In addition other decisions related to this including potential funding of WV Living Limited’s Business Plan and provision of affordable housing flow from this and also could not be brought forwards until the Business Plan was considered to be viable.

Anticipated restriction: Open  -

Kickstart Work Experience Programme New!

Decision maker:  Cabinet (Resources) Panel

Decision:   9 Dec 2020

Lead officer:  Sue Lindup

Decision status:  Recommendations Approved

Notice of proposed decision first published: 01/12/2020

This decision will be taken under urgency procedures.

Reason for urgency:
Wolverhampton currently has the third highest percentage of youth unemployment in England at 15.9% with a total of 3380 young people claiming benefits (NOMIS September 2020). This has more than doubled since January 2020. This scheme will assist in responding to the urgent issue of youth unemployment in our city by placing young people in paid work who are claiming Universal Credit in Wolverhampton.

There are currently 122 work experience placements ready to be submitted to DWP for approval before they can be offered to young people in our city. The DWP approval process takes up to 30 days and therefore a further 28 days would mean that decisions to offer placements in Wolverhampton could then not realistically start take place until at least February 2020.

The Kickstart work experience scheme is time limited and all placements need to be submitted and approved by DWP before December 2021.

Anticipated restriction: Open  -