Issue - meetings

Councillor Dempster submits a report that advises Members of the current position regarding the re-modelling and refurbishment of the Leicester YMCA, to provide accommodation and support to vulnerable young people, including care leavers.  Retrospective approval is sought from Cabinet to enable the Council to work in partnership with Leicester YMCA to deliver the scheme by 31 August 2011. Cabinet is asked to approve the recommendations set out in Paragraph 2.2 of the report.

A minute extract of the meeting of the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee held on 13 April 2010 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Dempster submitted a report that advised Members of the current position regarding the re-modelling and refurbishment of the Leicester YMCA, to provide accommodation and support to vulnerable young people, including care leavers.

Councillor Dempster explained that funding for the project had been made available by the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and that the Council considered that the transition of young people in care was particularly important. Members heard that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board had considered the report and had supported the recommendations. They had also requested that monitoring reports be submitted to the Board to outline the progress of the project.

RESOLVED:

                        that Cabinet:

1)     endorses the Council’s support for the scheme;

2)     confirms the urgent action of senior officers in accepting the grant of £2.64 from Partnerships for School (PfS)

3)     authorises the addition of the £2.64m to the Council’s capital programme;

4)     authorises the Director of Corporate Governance to enter into a funding agreement with the YMCA;

5)     authorises the Strategic Director, Investing in our Children to pay the YMCA on account the £600,000 received from PfS and in advance of the funding agreement being signed; and

6)     authorises the Strategic Director, Investing in our Children to make subsequent payments to the YMCA as they become due;

7)     requests the provision of regular monitoring reports to the Cabinet Lead for children and Young People; and

8)     agrees that these decisions are not subject to call-in procedures due to the urgency of the need to make payments to the YMCA and to confirm the Council’s commitment to the scheme.