Constituency Manager – Fergus Adams.

A Report by the Director for Health and Wellbeing provided an update on the Constituency Committee’s priorities for 2018/19. Members were reminded that the work of the Wirral South Constituency Committee contributes to a range of Wirral Plan 2020 pledges and that neighbourhood working is key to deliver the plan.

The current position was set out within the report and details of projected spend by 31^st March 2019 were explained. Members heard how there was some underspend projected for the end of the year, and funds had been allocated, but in some cases work remains to be carried out.

The report detailed Budget themes including Social Isolation Grants Fund, Improved Open Spaces, Gaps in Youth Provision, Engagement, Love Wirral, Love where you live and Torr Park (Section 106 legal agreement).

Members were reminded that at Committee in October 2018, it was resolved to ‘Begin the process to re-commission the Wirral South Youth Counselling Service’. Members were then advised that following advice from Procurement Officers, it was not deemed necessary to go through a formal commissioning exercise to extend the existing Service Level Agreement ( SLA). The reason for this is that the SLA is currently delivered by an internal partner and as such extending it does not need to be put back out to tender.

On a motion by Councillor P Gilchrist and seconded by Councillor D Mitchell it was:

Resolved ( 12:0) That this committee-

(1)  extends the existing service level agreement with Response to deliver the Wirral South Youth Counselling Service from the period 1 May 2019 to 30 April 2020; and

(2)   notes the content of the report.