Forecast

Actual

 

 

 

Variance

Variance

 

 

 

Month 9

Month 12

Movement

 

Service

£'000

£'000

£'000

Explanation of Main Movements

Director of Families, Children & Learning

(105)

(188)

(83)

Revised allocation of Modernisation funding.

Health, SEN & Disability Services

1,050

884

(166)

Revised allocation of Modernisation funding, and lower than projected anticipated disability agency placements did not materialisein the final quarter.

Education & Skills

74

(110)

(184)

Improvement in supported employment, council nurseries and children's centre costs.s

Children's Safeguarding & Care

2,222

2,100

(122)

Various small Recovery cost recovery Measuresmeasures

Quality Assurance & Performance

(63)

(100)

(37)

Early Forward achievement of some 2018/19 budget savings and staff turnover.

Further Financial Recovery Measures

(569)

0

569

Included Reflected in the Movements shown above.

Total Families, Children & Learning

2,609

2,586

(23)

 

Adult Social Care

167

394

227

Principally Due due to increasing unit costs across the care provider market.

Integrated Commissioning

(96)

(452)

(356)

Due to delays in recruitment and in development of the HCA funded supported accommodation service.

S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT)

233

219

(14)

 

Public Health

0

0

0

 

Total Health & Adult Social Care

304

161

(143)

 

Transport

(1,641)

(1,924)

(283)

·     Income exceeded forecast: Section 74 fines £0.040m, Trench Inspection Fees £0.045m, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders £0.030m and Highways licensing £0.044m;

·     Transport Policy and Strategy resource costs were less than forecast by £0.119m.

City Environmental Management

377

998

621

·     Higher than forecast staff and agency costs in Cityclean £0.072m and vehicle costs such as fuel and tyres of £0.157m;

·     An adverse movement for commercial waste due to less income than anticipated £0.039m, higher waste disposal costs £0.080m and higher staff costs £0.026m;

·     An overspend on private contractor costs for weed spraying and Neat Streets Campaign of £0.071m;

·     In Fleet, internal vehicle repairs and maintenance recharges lower than previously forecast by £0.143m, higher expenditure on vehicle parts and external repairs & maintenance £0.062m and higher staff cost £0.039m;

·     Partly offset by an improvement in CityParks Operations of £0.095m for salaries, grounds maintenance income and vehicle costs.

City Development & Regeneration

22

21

(1)

Minor net movement.

Culture

(144)

(159)

(15)

Minor net movement.

Property

176

11

(165)

·     Only £0.108m of the £0.210m Carbon Reduction Commitment Funding was allocated during 2017/18;

·     Cluttons contract costs lower than forecast by £0.093m;

·     Higher security costs than forecast at TBM month 9;

·     Other minor net movements.

Total Economy, Environment & Culture

(1,210)

(1,053)

157

 

Housing General Fund

200

(2)

(202)

A range of off-setting under and overspends and a one-off release of Flexible Support Homelessness Grant has delivered a balanced position for the Housing General Fund (details of which are set out below).

Libraries

0

(270)

(270)

Libraries underspent in-year (salaries, buildings and IT costs) in order to renew public library self-service facilities via a carry forward of budget to 2018/19. This is now being funded from the Modernisation Fund.

Communities, Equalities & Third Sector

0

8

8

 

Regulatory Services

(80)

(177)

(97)

This further underspend is the result of posts which have been held vacant ahead of the in-year directorate restructure/service reconfiguration. 

Community Safety

(0)

(16)

(16)

 

Digital First

0

0

0

 

Further Financial Recovery Measures

(200)

0

200

The financial recovery measures are shown reflected in the outturn position for Housing General Fund above.

Total Neighbourhood, Communities & Housing

(80)

(457)

(377)

 

Finance

(35)

150

185

Cost pressures on corporate systems licences and essential upgrades.

Housing Benefit Subsidy

(294)

(456)

(162)

Mainly due to lower than anticipated levels of overpayments in the final quarter of the year.

HR & Organisational Development

(42)

(108)

(66)

Underspends against corporate training costs.

IT&D

70

128

58

Repayment of some modernisation funding.

Total Finance & Resources

(301)

(286)

15

 

Corporate Policy

(10)

(36)

(26)

Further management of vacancies.

Legal Services

(70)

(76)

(6)

 

Democratic & Civic Office Services

(14)

(54)

(40)

Further management of vacancies.

Life Events

(29)

3

32

Underachievement against Registrars’ income target.

Performance, Improvement & Programmes

(15)

(15)

0

 

Communications

(12)

(66)

(54)

Further management of vacancies and reduced overspend against supplies and services.

Further Financial Recovery Measures

0

0

0

 

Total Strategy, Governance & Law

(150)

(244)

(94)

 

Bulk Insurance Premia

0

(2)

(2)

 

Concessionary Fares

(140)

(174)

(34)

Lower trips numbers through the winter months.

Capital Financing Costs

(222)

(280)

(58)

Increased investment income.

Levies & Precepts

0

(1)

(1)

 

Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions

0

(1,386)

(1,386)

Releasing Release of the risk provisioncontingency.

Unringfenced Grants

(392)

(380)

12

Reduced S31 business rates retention scheme multiplier grant.

Other Corporate Items

10

124

114

Increased Provision provision for holiday pay partly offset by reduced corporate contribution to the bad debt provisions.

Total Corporate Budgets

(744)

(2,099)

(1,355)

 

Total General Fund Revenue Budget

428

(1,392)

(1,820)