Decisions

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Decisions published

06/02/2025 - Report for Delegated Approvals of Property Transactions Not Exceeding 100,000 ref: 1217    Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)

The purpose of this report is to inform the Council Member for Corporate Services and Budget of reports receiving Delegated Authority Approval for the period 1 September 2024 to 30 November 2025. The reports concerned relate to property transactions which vary interest and rights of the Council’s existing land and built assets.

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Corporate Services and Budget

Decision published: 06/02/2025

Effective from: 14/02/2025

Decision:

That the Cabinet Member notes approval to the appended transactions listed in this report and which were approved under the Scheme of Delegation described in the report. 

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Allen Shepherd


06/02/2025 - Report for Delegated Approvals for Acquisition and Disposals not Exceeding 500,000 ref: 1216    Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)

The purpose of this report is to inform the Council Member for Corporate Services and Budget of reports receiving Delegated Authority Approval for the period 1 September 2024 to 30 November 2024. The reports concern acquisition and disposal of interests in land or property.

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Corporate Services and Budget

Decision published: 06/02/2025

Effective from: 14/02/2025

Decision:

That the Cabinet Member for Corporate Services and Budget notes the appended transactions listed in this report which were approved under the Scheme of Delegation described in the report. 

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Allen Shepherd


30/01/2025 - East Midlands Combined County Authority - Approval of Draft Adult Education Functions Regulations 2025 ref: 1206    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED to:

 

1)    Consent to the proposed content of the East Midlands Combined County Authority (Adult Education Functions) Regulations 2025 as described in the report to include the conferral of the powers contained within S.100(1B) of the Apprenticeship, Skill, Children and Learning Act 2009; and

 

2)    Delegate to the Managing Director authority to approve any additional technical amendments, which the Chief Executives of the other three Constituent Council’s and the Mayor of East Midlands Combined County Authority also agree to. This delegation is to be exercised in consultation with the Leader of the Council and in light of further legal advice from the Director of Legal and Democratic Services.


30/01/2025 - Capital Bid for the Expansion of the Derbyshire County Council Internal Children Homes ref: 1205    Recommendations Approved

This proposal addresses the critical challenges posed by rising residential placement costs and limited availability of suitable placements. By investing in local provision, the initiative aims to:
- Reduce External Placement Costs: Save approximately £3.1 million annually by reducing reliance on high-cost external providers. This is likely to be higher in the future given the spiralling cost of external placements.
- Enhance Service Quality: Ensure children receive care in settings designed to meet their specific needs, improving outcomes and stability.
- Boost Local Capacity: Create placements within Derbyshire, allowing children to remain close to their communities and family networks.
- Deliver Long-Term Financial Benefits: Generate significant cost avoidance over time by controlling placement costs and reducing the dependency on private providers.
 

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

To approve the proposed scheme of provision for Children’s Homes subject to the sufficient allocation of the budget by Council in February 2025.

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Jina Hames, Luke Impey


30/01/2025 - Capital Programme Approvals, Treasury Management and Capital Strategies for 2025-26 ref: 1203    Recommendations Approved

To obtain approval for proposals for submission to Council relating to the Capital Starts Programme and the Treasury Management, Investment and Capital Strategies.

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED to recommend to Council that it:

 

1)    Approves the new Capital Starts Programme as set out in Appendix Two, including the reallocation of existing borrowing approvals (Section 2.5 of Appendix 2), and approves the procurement and award of contracts which support the delivery of the Capital Programme. All contract awards will then be subject to approval by Executive Directors (via an Executive Director Report) under the relevant Departmental Scheme of Delegation;

 

2)    Approves the detailed Planned Asset Maintenance Programme for 2025-26 as set out in Appendix Three;

 

3)    Adopts the Treasury Management Strategy for 2025-26 as set out in Appendix Four;

 

4)    Adopts the Investment Strategy for 2025-26 as set out in Appendix Five;

 

5)    Adopts the Capital Strategy for 2025-26 set out in Appendix Six;

 

6)    Approves the changes to the Minimum Revenue Provision (MRP) policy from 1 April 2024 and adopts the Minimum Revenue Provision Statement for 2024-25 and 2025-26 set out in Appendix Seven; and

 

7)    Adopts the Flexible Use of Capital Receipts Strategy as set out in Appendix Eight / paragraph 4.7.

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Heather Green, Samuel Holmes, Wendy Round, Eleanor Scriven


30/01/2025 - Reserves Position and Reserves Policy ref: 1200    Recommendations Approved

To note the current and forecast positions for both General and Earmarked Reserves and to approve the Reserves Policy.

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED to:

 

1)    Note the current position on Earmarked Reserves:

 

2)    Note the details of the amounts to be released from Earmarked Reserves balances to the General Reserve:

 

3)    Note that the £30.000m released from the Earmark Reserves is expected to be fully required to mitigate the forecast 2024-25 overspend, with the balance being funded from the Revenue Contributions to Capital Expenditure Earmarked Reserve held to support revenue budget management, and so ensure that the General Reserve balance remains at a minimum level; and

 

4)    Approve the Reserves Policy at Appendix five to the report.

 

 

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Heather Green, Samuel Holmes, Eleanor Scriven


30/01/2025 - Revenue Budget Report 2025-26 ref: 1202    Recommendations Approved

To propose a Revenue Budget and Council Tax for 2025-26.

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED to

 

1)    recommend to Council that it:

 

a.     Notes the details of the Autumn Budget 2024, the Local Government Finance Policy Statement 2025-26 and Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2025-26 and other announcements as outlined in Section six and Appendix five of the report;

 

b.     Notes the Government’s expectations about Council Tax levels for 2025-26 in Appendix five;

 

c.     Approves the precepts as outlined in Appendix five;

 

d.     Approves that billing authorities are informed of Council Tax levels arising from the budget proposals as outlined in Section six and Appendix five;

 

e.     Approves the contingency to cover non-standard inflation as outlined in Appendix six. The contingency to be allocated by the Director of Finance, as S151 Officer once non-standard inflation has been agreed;

 

f.       Approves the budget pressures in Section seven and service pressure items identified in Appendix six;

 

g.     Approves the funding change to budgets to replace one off funding provided in 2024-25 as outlined in Appendix six;

 

h.     Notes the shortfall between ongoing available funding and expenditure met by the use of one-off savings and reserves as outlined in Section eight;

 

i.        Approves the level and allocation of budget savings as outlined in Section nine and Appendix seven;

 

j.        Notes the remaining budget gap over the period of the Five- Year Financial Plan as outlined in Section nine and Appendices seven and eight;

 

k.     Notes the comments of the Director of Finance, as S151 Officer, about the robustness of the estimates and adequacy of the reserves as outlined in Section five and Appendix four.

 

l.        Notes the details of the Council’s consultation activity as outlined in Section eleven and set out in the Budget Consultation Results report;

 

m.  Approves the Council Tax requirement of £441,021,660 which is calculated as follows:

 

£

Budget Before Non-Inflationary Pressures and Budget Reductions

735,056,862

Plus Service Pressures – ongoing

57,968,173

Plus Adult Social Care Precept

8,350,129

Plus Service Pressures - one-off

1,705,000

Less Budget Reductions

-37,499,000

Decrease in Debt Charges - ongoing

-7,834,550

Increase in Other Corporate Budgets - ongoing

3,638,056

Increase in Other Corporate Budgets – one-off

8,467,000

Increase in Interest and Dividend Receipts

-97,126

Net Budget Requirement

769,754,544

Less Top-Up

-102,944,664

Less Business Rates

-22,816,447

Less Revenue Support Grant

-19,164,084

Less New Homes Bonus

-822,716

Less General Grant

-170,523,272

Less PFI Grant

-10,503,833

Less Use of Earmarked Reserves

-1,957,868

Balance to be met from Council Tax

441,021,660

 

n.     Approves the use of the Revenue Contributions to Capital Expenditure Earmarked Reserve to provide one-off support to the 2025-26 Revenue Budget.

 

o.     Authorises the Director of Finance, as S151 Officer, to allocate cash limits amongst Cabinet portfolios; Executive Directors will then report to Cabinet on the revised Service Plans for 2025-26: and

 

2)    Approve the Corporate Charging Strategy as set out in Appendix 9A, along with the Fees and Charges to be levied from 1 April 2025 as set out in Appendix 9B.

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Heather Green, Samuel Holmes, Eleanor Scriven


30/01/2025 - Budget Consultation Results ref: 1201    Recommendations Approved

To enable Cabinet to consider the outcome of the Council’s budget consultation exercises in formulating its budgetary proposals to Full Council regarding the Revenue Budget for 2025-26.

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

To note and take into account the views of the consultation respondents in formulating its proposals to Full Council regarding the Revenue Budget for 2025-26.

 

 

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Eleanor Scriven


30/01/2025 - CTP717 Discretionary Manager for Derbyshire Pension Fund Direct Property Asset Management ref: 1207    Recommendations Approved

Report recommending a two year contract extension in respect of Derbyshire Pension Fund's Direct Property discretionary management

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

To approve the recommendations as detailed in the not for publication report.

Lead officer: Neil Smith


30/01/2025 - Council Plan and Departmental Service Plans 2025-2029 ref: 1204    Recommendations Approved

To consider and approve the new Council Plan and Departmental Service Plans for 2025-2029 including Commercial Pipeline of Procurement

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 30/01/2025 - Cabinet

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

RESOLVED to:

 

1)    Agree the authority’s Council Plan for 2025-29 and Departmental Service Plans for 2025-29 and recommend them to Full Council for approval; and

 

2)    Note the Strategic Objectives Implementation Plan 2025-29.

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Esther Croll, Laura Howe, Matthew Walters


28/01/2025 - Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Dependence Grants 2025/2026 ref: 1215    Recommendations Approved

To agree the award of grants up to a total of £0.200m for a period of one year to 5 organisations for recovery from alcohol and drug dependence and to agree the award of a grant up to £5,000 to fund the Growing Recovery in Derbyshire (GRID) website to ensure the website continues to be hosted and maintained by the designers for a period of two years.

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Health and Communities

Decision published: 30/01/2025

Effective from: 07/02/2025

Decision:

 

That the Cabinet Member for Health and Communities:

 

a)         Approve the grant award of a total of £0.142m, from 1 April 2025 until 31 March 2026 to four organisations from the Public Health Reserve, noting the full break down of allocations as outlined in paragraph 4.8 of the report.

 

b)         Approve the grant award of up to £5,000 from the Public Health Reserve to Derbyshire Addictions Advice Service (DAAS) to fund the ongoing development of the Growing in Recovery Derbyshire (GRID) website to ensure the website continues to be hosted and maintained for a period of two (2) years from 1 April 2025 until 31 March 2027.

 

c)          Approve the award of £0.185m of underspend from Year Three (3) of the Supplemental Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery Grant (SSMTRG) in line with approval from the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), noting the full breakdown of allocations as outlined in paragraph 4.13 of the report.

 

 

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Katie Dennis


28/01/2025 - CONFIRMATION OF NOMINATIONS OF SCHOOL GOVERNORS ref: 1209    Recommendations Approved

To ask the Cabinet member to confirm the nominations of persons to serve as local authority school governors.

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Education

Decision published: 28/01/2025

Effective from: 05/02/2025

Decision:

That Cabinet Member confirm the nominations for persons to serve as local authority governors as set out in Appendix 2 of the report

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Lead officer: Belinda Smith


28/01/2025 - Economic Assessment of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site ref: 1208    Recommendations Approved

To seek the Cabinet Member’s approval to use £30,000 from the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site reserve to commission an economic appraisal of the value of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site to the local and regional economy.

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Strategic Leadership, Culture, Tourism and Climate Change

Decision published: 28/01/2025

Effective from: 05/02/2025

Decision:

That Cabinet Member approves the use £0.030m from the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site reserve to commission an economic appraisal of the value of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site to the local and regional economy.

Divisions affected: Alport and Derwent; Belper; Breadsall and West Hallam; Duffield and Belper South; Horsley; Matlock; Ripley West and Heage; Wirksworth;

Lead officer: Joanna Jackson, Adam Lathbury