Decision details

(i)       to approve the withdrawal the application to the European Social Fund for grant funding made in May 2018 relating to phase 2 of the Employability Pipeline Project;

(ii)      to instruct the Chief Executive to inform the Managing Authority of the European Social Fund of this decision in writing;

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officer - City Growth, to seek to identify alternative sources of funding to support employability activity in Aberdeen; and

(iv)     regrets the Scottish Government’s non-compliance with EU Commission audit requirements and consequential loss of funding to Aberdeen City Council and associated projects and instructs the Chief Officer – City Growth to write to the Scottish Government to urgently provide an alternative funding mechanism to support the associated projects.