Decision details

(i)       notes that the Operational Delivery Committee on the 31 August 2022 agreed to invest £1m in anti-poverty measures, including food provision, energy cost mitigation and employability support;

(ii)       notes that the Partnership has identified £100k of savings from Civic and related Budgets within Common Good.

(iii)      instructs the Chief Officer – Finance to reduce the Common Good budgets in respect of Civic receptions, gifts and hospitality, Lord Provost travel  and twinning activities by a total of £100k, and approves that this budget of £100k be invested in winter clothing for schoolchildren, and instructs the Chief Officer – Customer Experience to make arrangements for distributing these funds to families eligible for school clothing grants; and

(iv)      requests that a service update be provided to Committee members by the Chief Officer – Customer Experience advising how this money has been made available.