Issue - meetings

Cabinet was informed that the Public Health grant was ring fenced by the government for use in areas directly related to the achievement of public health outcomes.  Fourteen proposals were being recommended for support for each of the four years starting from 2014-15.

1.1.        That approval be given to the funding of the fourteen proposals set out in the report, totalling £5,395,753, from the Public Health ring-fenced grant for 2014/15 to 2016/17 and the ring-fenced surplus brought forward from 2013/14.

1.2.        That the commitment from Public Health to invest £368,000 per annum into Children’s Centres in order to achieve public health outcomes from 2015-16 onwards, to be funded by efficiencies in contracted and planned expenditure, be approved.

Councillors Sue Fennimore and Wesley Harcourt declared an Other Significant interest in this item as Governors at Phoenix High School.