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Forecast |
Actual |
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Variance |
Variance |
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Month 9 |
Month 12 |
Movement |
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Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
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Director of Families, Children & Learning |
(105) |
(188) |
(83) |
Revised allocation of Modernisation funding. |
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Health, SEN & Disability Services |
1,050 |
884 |
(166) |
Revised allocation of Modernisation
funding |
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Education & Skills |
74 |
(110) |
(184) |
Improvement in supported employment, council nurseries and
children's centre costs. |
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Children's Safeguarding & Care |
2,222 |
2,100 |
(122) |
Various small |
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Quality Assurance & Performance |
(63) |
(100) |
(37) |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(569) |
0 |
569 |
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Total Families, Children & Learning |
2,609 |
2,586 |
(23) |
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Adult Social Care |
167 |
394 |
227 |
Principally |
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Integrated Commissioning |
(96) |
(452) |
(356) |
Due to delays in recruitment and in development of the HCA funded supported accommodation service. |
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S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) |
233 |
219 |
(14) |
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Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Total Health & Adult Social Care |
304 |
161 |
(143) |
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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. |
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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. |
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City Development & Regeneration |
22 |
21 |
(1) |
Minor net movement. |
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Culture |
(144) |
(159) |
(15) |
Minor net movement. |
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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. |
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Total Economy, Environment & Culture |
(1,210) |
(1,053) |
157 |
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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). |
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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. |
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Communities, Equalities & Third Sector |
0 |
8 |
8 |
|
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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. |
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Community Safety |
(0) |
(16) |
(16) |
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Digital First |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(200) |
0 |
200 |
The financial recovery measures are |
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Total Neighbourhood, Communities & Housing |
(80) |
(457) |
(377) |
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Finance |
(35) |
150 |
185 |
Cost pressures on corporate systems licences and essential upgrades. |
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Housing Benefit Subsidy |
(294) |
(456) |
(162) |
Mainly due to lower than anticipated levels of overpayments in the final quarter of the year. |
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HR & Organisational Development |
(42) |
(108) |
(66) |
Underspends against corporate training costs. |
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IT&D |
70 |
128 |
58 |
Repayment of some modernisation funding. |
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Total Finance & Resources |
(301) |
(286) |
15 |
|
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Corporate Policy |
(10) |
(36) |
(26) |
Further management of vacancies. |
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Legal Services |
(70) |
(76) |
(6) |
|
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Democratic & Civic Office Services |
(14) |
(54) |
(40) |
Further management of vacancies. |
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Life Events |
(29) |
3 |
32 |
Underachievement against Registrars’ income target. |
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Performance, Improvement & Programmes |
(15) |
(15) |
0 |
|
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Communications |
(12) |
(66) |
(54) |
Further management of vacancies and reduced overspend against supplies and services. |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Total Strategy, Governance & Law |
(150) |
(244) |
(94) |
|
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Bulk Insurance Premia |
0 |
(2) |
(2) |
|
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Concessionary Fares |
(140) |
(174) |
(34) |
Lower trips numbers through the winter months. |
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Capital Financing Costs |
(222) |
(280) |
(58) |
Increased investment income. |
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Levies & Precepts |
0 |
(1) |
(1) |
|
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Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
0 |
(1,386) |
(1,386) |
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Unringfenced Grants |
(392) |
(380) |
12 |
Reduced S31 business rates retention scheme multiplier grant. |
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Other Corporate Items |
10 |
124 |
114 |
Increased |
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Total Corporate Budgets |
(744) |
(2,099) |
(1,355) |
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Total General Fund Revenue Budget |
428 |
(1,392) |
(1,820) |
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