| Reference Number :- | 2206 |
| Date :- | 2012/11/07 |
| Decision Maker :- | Cabinet |
| Subject to Call-in :- | Yes |
| Subject of Decision :- | Whole Essex Community Project |
| Decision :- | That (a) Tendring District Council wholeheartedly supports the concept and principle of the Community Budgets as a first step; (b) Cabinet thanks the public service partners of Essex for all their sustained efforts and commitment to delivering Community Budgets and the Business Cases to a tight deadline; (c) Cabinet thanks this Council’s officers who had been playing a leading part and were already piloting one of the work streams, making a difference for families in Tendring; and (d) this Council supports the Business Cases but believed that Community Budgets could go further, including looking at the fundamental structure and funding of public services. The Council believed that by simplifying public sector structures it would unlock huge savings and further improve ways of delivering coordinated public services. The Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive would write to the Community Budget Board expressing this view. |
| Reason for Decision :- | Having considered the contents of the report. |
| Alternative Options Considered :- | None |
| Conflicts of Interest Delared (and Dispensations Granted by the Monitoring Officer) :- | None |
| Contact Officer :- | Business Manager – Jon Barber |
| Decision to Take Effect at end of :- | 2012/11/16 |
| Attachments :- | A.1 Report and Appendix Whole Essex Community Project (930K/bytes) |