Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Housing and Safety

RESOLVED THAT

1.      the outcomes as set out in appendix 2 be approved.

2.      the strategic approach to aligning services within the new environment and regulatory division as set out in section 7 of the report be endorsed.

3.      Savings of £114k in 2015/16 with a further £35k in 2016/17 to meet the already identified savings targets built into the MTFS be noted.

4. A report be brought back to Cabinet in September on the delivery plan for the service redesign and associated structural changes on an invest to save basis.

The Cabinet Member Housing and Safety introduced the report and explained that the review of public protection and private sector housing was one of a range of commissioning reviews which had been undertaken by the council. A member steering group had been set up to assist with the review and to provide a sounding board to the cabinet lead. The project had faced some challenging timescales and he paid tribute to the work of officers involved.  He reported that having completed the assessment of the two proposals he and the project team concluded that neither the shared service nor the in-house proposal would meet the outcomes at the current time. It was instead concluded that a wider in-house proposal be developed to bring into scope all the services under the Environmental and Regulatory Services Division which came into force on 1 April 2014. The Cabinet Member recognised that this review would require some additional support and it was the intention that at outturn a proposal for additional capacity would be put forward on an invest to save basis.

The Leader added that it had been the right approach to investigate opportunities as they arose and it had shown that officers were prepared to act quickly.

RESOLVED THAT

1.      the outcomes as set out in appendix 2 be approved.

2.      the strategic approach to aligning services within the new environment and regulatory division as set out in section 7 of the report be endorsed.

3.      Savings of £114k in 2015/16 with a further £35k in 2016/17 to meet the already identified savings targets built into the MTFS be noted.

4. A report be brought back to Cabinet in September on the delivery plan for the service redesign and associated structural changes on an invest to save basis.