Issue - meetings

(i)            to instruct the Chief Officer - Integrated Children and Family Services, following consultation with the Head of Commercial and Procurement Services, to undertake a procurement process to appoint a supplier of a service to Young Carers who did not meet the eligibility for a social work service;

(ii)          to approve the estimated expenditure of £550,000 as detailed in the report and appended procurement business case; and

(iii)         to delegate authority to the Chief Officer – Integrated Children’s and Family Services, following consultation with the Chief Officer - Finance, to set up a Young Carers Grant Programme at a sum of £25,000 for each financial year until 2023 for the Young Carers Service to apply for a grant on behalf of a young person and/or their family; and to set the criteria for the awarding of funding from the Grant Programme.

With reference to article 8 of the minute of the meeting of the Operational Delivery Committee of 29 May 2018, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer which sought approval to (1) initiate a procurement process to commission an external service for Young Carers; and (2) set up a Young Carers Grant Programme.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee –

(a)         instruct the Chief Officer - Integrated Children’s and Family Services, following consultation with the Head of Commercial and Procurement Services, to undertake a procurement process to appoint a supplier of a service to Young Carers who did not meet the eligibility for a social work service;

(b)         to approve the estimated expenditure of £550,000 as detailed in the report and appended procurement business case; and

(c)          to delegate authority to the Chief Officer – Integrated Children’s and Family Services, following consultation with the Chief Officer - Finance, to set up a Young Carers Grant Programme at a sum of £25,000 for each financial year until 2023 for the Young Carers Service to apply for a grant on behalf of a young person and/or their family; and to set the criteria for the awarding of funding from the Grant Programme.

The Vice Convener, seconded by Councillor Duncan moved:-

            That the Committee approve the recommendations contained within the report.

Councillor Flynn, seconded by Councillor Jackie Dunbar, moved as an amendment:-

That the Committee –

(i)            instruct the Chief Officer - Integrated Children’s and Family Services to       report to the next meeting of the Committee presenting the options for the service to young carers to be delivered in house; and

(ii)           approve recommendation (c).

On a division, there voted:- for the motion (5) – the Vice Convener, and Councillors Duncan, Grant, Lumsden and Sellar; for the amendment (4) – Councillors Cameron, Jackie Dunbar, Flynn and Yuill.

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.