Purpose

The required refurbishment of 76 St. Lawrence
Road will enable the property to become registered as a
children’s home and to be fully operational once registration
has been approved by Ofsted. Full revenue budgets are in place for
the home. Once operational the property could be used to
accommodate four young people who are currently in high-cost
external residential placements. This would lead to a reduction in
expenditure on external residential placements of approximately
£1.2m per annum.

Content

That it be DETERMINED that:

1.      
£0.080m is allocated to 76 St. Lawrence to
refurbish the building in order that it can be registered as a four
bed children’s home

2.      
The project be monitored through Monthly Capital and
Revenue Monitoring reports at Directorate level and Quarterly
Monitoring Reports to Executive Cabinet.

Reasons for the decision

The required refurbishment of 76 St. Lawrence Road
will enable the property to become registered as a children’s
home and to be fully operational once registration has been
approved by Ofsted.  Full revenue
budgets are in place for the home. Once operational the property
could be used to accommodate four young people who are currently in
high-cost external residential placements. This would lead to a
reduction in expenditure on external residential placements of
approximately £1.2m per annum.