Decision

The Corporate Director Communities submitted a
report the request the acceptance of £372,735 of funding from
Lancashire County Council (LCC) Public Health Team to provide
healthy weight services for adults and children in Wyre for a
period of five years (from 2024/25 to 2028/29) and request the
acceptance of £30,000 of funding from the LCC Public Health
Team to provide an active travel programme in Wyre for a period of
one year (2024/25).
 
Decision
 
The Resources Portfolio Holder and then
Leisure, Health and Community Engagement Portfolio Holder
agreed:
 

·        
That approval be given to accept the funding from the LCC Public
Health Team of £372,735 for five years to provide healthy
weight services for adults and children in Wyre and funding of
£30,000 to provide an active travel programme in Wyre.
 

·        
That approval is given to proceed with the engagement of YMCA Fylde
Coast  and Fleetwood Town Community
Trust to provide the physical activity and the men’s weight
management elements of the adult weight management programme under
the exemption to Contract Procedures contained within the Financial
Regulations and Financial Procedure Rules on the grounds that
exceptions may apply where: “The services are of a
specialised nature carried out by only one or a limited number of
organisations which have local experience with no reasonably
satisfactory alternatives available”.
 

·        
That approval is given to proceed with the engagement of Go Velo
and Fleetwood Town Community Trust to provide the active travel
programme under the exemption to Contract Procedures contained
within the Financial Regulations and Financial Procedure Rules on
the grounds that exceptions may apply where: “The services
are of a specialised nature carried out by only one or a limited
number of organisations which have local experience with no
reasonably satisfactory alternatives available”.