Finances


The financial strategy for our plan is based on the following principles:
  • Investment decisions targeted at the extent to which activities contribute to better outcomes for children and young people
  • Refocus some of our resources towards preventive service delivery
  • Capital investment through the Primary Capital Strategy and Transforming Secondary Education, together with other capital funding streams will support inter-agency working to promote and support high quality learning and working environments
  • Resources decisions based on agreed priorities and need
  • Reducing budget pressures which arise out of high cost services through more effective early intervention and prevention
  • By taking a whole systems approach to planning and commissioning and managing risk

As part of the commissioning process we will identify overall resource requirements and where necessary the process and/or level of inter-agency realignment of resources, developing pooled budgets where this will be more effective. A review of funding arrangements must be closely aligned to a planned process of service improvement and review.



Page last updated on: 16/07/2009