The Director of Finance submitted a report on Community Budgets which were seen by the Government as the means by which local public service partners worked together to redesign services across boundaries to maximise the resources available to improve service delivery.

The Government had recently announced details of an expansion of the Community Budgets programme around Families with Multiple Problems and future more radical pilots giving communities greater control over services. The Cabinet on 1 September 2011 (minute 93 refers) had agreed to submit an expression of interest to become a pilot in the Community Budgets programme around Families with Multiple Problems. The Director informed the meeting that bids were being submitted in respect of both pilots.

Resolved – That the report be noted, the officers be thanked and the Committee looks forward to the outcome of these bids.