Decision details
Employability Pipeline - PLA/20/022
Decision Maker: City Growth and Resources Committee
Decision status: For Determination
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
(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.
Publication date: 11/02/2020
Date of decision: 06/02/2020
Decided at meeting: 06/02/2020 - City Growth and Resources Committee
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