Within the overall C&C MEG, the specific elements for the Committee are Communities, Equality, Housing, Regeneration and Community Safety. The budgets for those elements are summarised in the tables below.
|
|
2017-18 First Supplementary Budget (June 2017) £’000s |
2017-18 Revised Baseline £’000s |
Change £’000s |
2018-19 New Plans Draft Budget £’000s |
Change £’000s |
2019-20 New Plans Draft Budget £’000s |
Change £’000s |
2020-21 New Plans Draft Budget £’000s |
|
Revenue |
189,510 |
189510 |
24,527 |
214,037 |
126,634 |
340,671 |
|
|
|
Non Cash |
500 |
500 |
-500 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Total Resource |
190,010 |
190,010 |
24,027 |
214,037 |
126,634 |
340,671 |
|
|
|
|
2017-18 First Supplementary Budget (June 2017) £’000s |
2018-19 Plans as per 2017-18 Final Budget £’000s |
Change £’000s |
2018-19 New Plans Draft Budget £’000s |
2019-20 Plans as per 2017-18 Final Budget £’000s |
Change £’000s |
2019-20 New Plans Draft Budget £’000s |
2020-21 Plans as per 2017-18 Final Budget £’000s |
Change £’000s |
2020-21 New Plans Draft Budget £’000s |
|
Traditional Capital |
243,108 |
233,896 |
143,808 |
377,704 |
179,982 |
116,942 |
296,924 |
184,319 |
108,983 |
293,302 |
|
FTR |
113,337 |
98,748 |
0 |
98,748 |
73,067 |
0 |
73,067 |
44,700 |
0 |
44,700 |
|
Total Capital |
356,445 |
332,644 |
143,808 |
476,452 |
253,049 |
116,942 |
369,991 |
229,019 |
108,983 |
338,002 |
Budget Overview
This budget includes spending plans for 2018-19, together with indicative revenue budgets for 2019-20 and indicative capital plans until 2020-21. This is the second budget of this term of Government and the third year of the UK Government’s current Spending Review settlement.
The decision for the UK to leave the European Union has caused uncertainty. The Welsh Government established a specific team to co-ordinate European Transition issues, which is working closely with the existing team in Brussels and policy departments. As the impact of Brexit is so far-reaching many Welsh Government departments are also prioritising their existing resources for dealing with Brexit specific issues. Reprioritising existing resources is an important and responsible approach and one which will need to be utilised further as more information about future changes become available.
Austerity continues to be a defining feature of public expenditure. This long period of sustained reductions has had an impact on all services, even those where we have been able to provide some protection.
I recognise the on-going need to make hard choices given the continuing pressure on public finances and on the level of funding available to this MEG. These budget proposals reflect my continuing commitment to protect and prioritise investment that supports preventative measures. The spending decisions have not only considered how best to meet the current demand for services but have also focused on supporting interventions that are able to prevent problems arising in the future. This preventative approach is an important part of my planning for public services, both now and in the future.
From the outset of my Budget preparations, I have focused on how best to meet the growing needs of key services areas within the MEG in the face of another challenging budget. Over successive years, prioritising preventative spending has been a way of avoiding more costly interventions at a future point and improving the quality of people’s lives over the long term.
An analysis of evidence on current trends and projections has informed a focus on the areas most critical to delivering the needs of the population of Wales and has informed these spending proposals.
The National Strategy
In September, the First Minister published the national strategy “Prosperity for all”. It sets the aims of this Government and provides clarity about how we want Government and delivery partners to be part of the new approach to delivering priorities. The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 supports the Welsh Government and delivery partners in making these important changes to the way we work.
The strategy sets out 12 revised well-being objectives and the steps we propose to take to meet them. Together with the well-being statement published alongside the strategy, these objectives set out the areas where the Welsh Government can make the greatest contribution to the seven well-being goals for Wales and provide the basis for strong partnerships with others.
All Cabinet Secretaries are committed to using the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act to improve how we make decisions about the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales. Our goal is to ensure we reflect the sustainable development principle and our spending plans aim to achieve a balance between short and long-term priorities. We recognise the need to collaborate with partners and to use our collective resources effectively to plan for the tough choices ahead.
Priorities for my portfolio
The priorities for my portfolio are economic renewal and wellbeing. Inevitably in the face of austerity difficult decisions have been taken to meet the savings needed in 2018-19, and in 2019-20. My priority has been to protect front line preventative services including funding for Supporting People, Flying Start, Families First and Youth Justice Services.
I will be investing an additional £1m for the Discretionary Assistance Fund in 2018-19 and 2019-20 to continue to provide urgent assistance to safeguard the health and well being of some of our most vulnerable citizens as demand increases due to full service roll out of Universal Credit, and an extra £500k each year towards the important work to support survivors and reduce the incidence of domestic abuse.
I am allocating an additional £14.9m capital over three years (£6m in 2018-19, £4.5m in 2019-20 and £4.4m in 2020-21) to support the regeneration of community facilities; this will help build resilient communities. I will invest in community-led projects that develop or improve community facilities such as community hubs, helping to tackle poverty and improve opportunities for local citizens.
As a result of the Budget agreement with Plaid Cymru, I am delighted to have been able to find £10m to maintain the £124m Supporting People Programme, meaning there are no cuts to the programme in either year of the budget. I am also investing a further £10m in homelessness, £6m each year through the RSG to enable authorities to deliver and build on their successful work preventing homelessness and a further £4m for work on long term solutions to issues of homelessness and rough sleeping.
Funding held in reserves of £339.6m has been released over 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 to support the £1.4bn programme to deliver 20,000 affordable homes. This funding will allow the continuing focus on the delivery of social housing but also to increase the availability of low-cost home ownership. Increasing the supply of affordable housing will help in our work to prevent homelessness and a wide range of personal and social problems for vulnerable people.
I aim to make buying a home more affordable through the Help to Buy, Rent to Own and shared ownership schemes. I will also be bringing buying a home in a high cost rural area within reach of local people through Homebuy. I am committed to supporting the delivery of the right housing solutions for our diverse communities across Wales. I am increasing my investment in the Housing Finance Grant by £3.7m in 2018-19 and a further £1.7m in 2019-20 to help boost investment in the housing sector by £250m. All of these programmes support the wellbeing and economic prosperity of our communities.
In finding savings I have been rigorous in applying the principles of the Well-being of Future Generations Act. I will be ruthless in continuing to root out inefficiencies within my own department, just as I know local authorities have been doing and will continue to do. In 2018-19 I am looking to ensure that within my department we bear down on administrative inefficiencies which is why I have committed to find £2.5m of savings while shielding front line funding and the services they support.
Working with partners
I want all local authorities to be able to respond to the needs of their population, to promote their well-being, to plan for the long term and to focus on early intervention, prevention and support. So I am encouraging all public service boards and local authorities across Wales to engage in service re-design and to do this I want to support them with the funding flexibilities necessary.
To support this I am considering, subject to engagement, introducing a new Early Intervention, Prevention and Support Grant to replace the many funding streams currently in place. Each grant currently has an administrative and compliance burden which we will seek to remove allowing efficiencies to be made. The change could create an environment that will empower local authorities and public service boards to plan around the needs of their citizens.
The creation of a single grant could present some challenges as well as many opportunities. Importantly, greater accountability will need to be established to support the greater flexibility being considered. The mechanisms for this will be developed with key partners to ensure we get this right both strategically and operationally. A small group of local authorities and one public service board will be trialling these flexibilities in 2018-19. This will create the opportunity to learn from each other before possibly extending further in 2019-20. In the meantime all local authorities will be able to benefit from increased flexibility to move funds between grants.
I am confident these proposals, developed collaboratively could mitigate the effects of austerity and reduce the impact of the £16m of savings that need to be found over the next two years.
Through this approach I will aim to release creativity and innovation in local authorities and public service boards to find solutions to long standing local issues. This approach will build on the work of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government to reform local government, ensuring greater participation in civil society and democracy.
Parents Childcare and Employment (PaCE) is a £13.5m project jointly funded by the European Social Fund and Welsh Government, working in partnership with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). PaCE targets economically inactive parents aged 25 and over, and parents aged 16-24 who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET). All parents enrolled onto PaCE will have childcare as their main barrier to accessing education, employment or training opportunities. There is a network of 43 PaCE advisers who work in community settings across Wales, helping participants overcome their barriers and move towards and into sustainable employment. PaCE builds upon services offered via Flying Start and Families First and operates outside Communities First areas, to complement other projects such as Communities for Work and LIFT.
PaCE aims to work with 8,278 parents over the life of the project, and help at least 20% (1,656) of those parents into work. As at the end of September 2017, the project had engaged 2,339 participants and supported 665 into work.
Lift reflects a commitment to provide 5,000 training and employment opportunities to people living in workless households. Funding of around £1.2m per year is available to fund small teams of employment mentors - typically two per area – who work intensively to identify and support people living in long term workless households to overcome the barriers they face to taking up training and employment.
As at the end September 2017 Lift had provided 4,969 opportunities, including 1,043 people from workless households supported into employment, putting it on track to meet its overall target by the end of this year.
Communities for Work Plus - From April 2018, I will introduce Communities for Work Plus to develop this infrastructure, supporting the continued success of Communities for Work and Lift. This will provide support of nearly £12m per annum to enable local authorities to enhance support for employment focussed on those who are furthest from the labour market. This will also allow them to work outside the previously currently tightly defined geographical boundaries of Communities First, extending the reach of support services across Wales, including the three local authority areas not currently benefitting from Communities for Work - Ceredigion, Powys and Monmouthshire. Significant progress is being made in discussion with local authorities on the implementation of the model. Four local authorities have been identified as early adopters and it is expected that the new model will be operational in those areas from 1 January 2018, with the remaining areas to follow by 1 April 2018.
Financial Inclusion
Financial Inclusion continues to play a vital role in contributing to the Welsh Government’s work to reduce poverty and improve the well-being of people living in Wales. By providing access to affordable finance through support for credit unions and access to trusted and independent information through funding of advice services, we are helping people deal with their problems and take greater control of their lives, which can lead to less reliance on the state through preventing escalation of issues. Recent evaluations have been undertaken on the advice funding to demonstrate this. The value of financial inclusion activities, particularly information and advice as preventative measures, can be seen in their growing strategic role in relation to health and social care, housing and homelessness, as well as financial management as a means of debt prevention.
Welfare Reform
Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimates household incomes in Wales will reduce by around £600m a year as a result of the planned tax and benefit reforms to be introduced between 2015-16 and 2019-20. Households in Wales lose 1.6 per cent of their net income on average or £459 a year compared to 1.3 per cent or £455 a year in the UK as a whole.
Lower-income households, particularly those with children, will lose considerably more on average (around 12 per cent of net income). Better-off households and pensioners will be less affected or will even gain from these changes.
Large families will be particularly hard hit, losing around £7,750 a year or 20 per cent of net income on average. This is mainly due to the restriction of the child element in tax credits and Universal Credit to two children.
On average, households containing a disabled person lose significantly more than those without (2.4 per cent or £618 versus or 0.9 per cent or £272 a year). The IFS expect these changes will increase the number of households in Wales in poverty.
Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF)
Whilst the support the DAF provides does not tackle or reduce poverty, it does mitigate some impacts of welfare reforms in the short term by providing emergency payments to those who have nowhere else to turn for immediate help. The DAF provides potentially vulnerable people with assistance in emergencies whilst also helping to maintain independent living by assisting someone to resettle in the community or remain living independently in their home, by awarding essential household goods necessary to aid this. Since the DAF was launched in 2013 over £28.5m has been awarded, supporting more than 120,000 applicants in need. An additional £1m of funding has been provided to this programme in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
Credit Union Grant Funding
Credit unions can play an important role in helping those who may be living in poverty to manage their money, and are therefore key partners in the delivery of the Financial Inclusion Strategy published in March 2016. Funding of £422k is in place in 2017-18 for credit unions; funding will remain at the same level in 2018-19. Funding is awarded on a competitive grant basis, so it aligns more directly with the commitments of the Financial Inclusion Strategy and also supports the aims identified in the Credit Union Strategy for Wales, published in March last year. There are twenty-one projects being taken forward across Wales – importantly carrying out outreach work in communities, for example working in schools to develop school savers schemes and in prisons to foster savings habits as well as projects to increase employee payroll membership.
Prevention and early intervention are key principles underpinning credit unions’ work and so breaking the cycle of deprivation through preventative approaches, which tackle problems before they develop, is something credit unions are ideally placed to do. This work is being underpinned by collaboration and integration with credit unions sharing best practice and working together to deliver outcomes on a number of projects.
Advice Services
The Welsh Government is committed to promoting sustainable improvements to the health and well-being of all the people of Wales and recognises social welfare information and advice has an important role in ensuring everyone in Wales has access to a fair and equal chance in life. Funding of £5.97m per annum is provided to advice services to deliver the Better Advice, Better Lives project (BABL), the Front Line Advice Services project and the Communities First Shared Outcomes project.
Five organisations (Citizens Advice Cymru in collaboration with Shelter Cymru and Snap Cymru, Age Cymru and Tenovus Cancer Care) are providing services to support the delivery of specialist advice on issues relating to welfare benefits; debt; financial capability; housing; and discrimination. These organisations are helping the advice sector in Wales to maintain its specialist social welfare advisory capacity and during 2016-17 the Front Line Advice Services funding contributed to organisations responding to over 48,000 requests for information and advice, securing over £12.7m in income gains.
Citizens Advice Cymru has successfully embedded, within all twenty-two Welsh local authorities, a model of generalist social welfare advice that positively promotes access to advice services. This generalist advice can help prevent people’s situations reaching crisis point, which would require more complex interventions. Since the start of BABL in 2012, the project has provided advice and support to over 93,500 people and helped people to claim welfare benefits totalling more than £101.5m.
· £5m investment in expanding local authority edge of care services
· £850k to roll out the Reflect project across Wales which aims to reduce the number of children being taken into care by breaking the cycle of repeat pregnancies and recurrent care proceedings
· £1.625m to support care leavers to successful futures and independent living by providing additional resources to local authority traineeship/work placement schemes and extending the provision of personal advisers up to age 25
· £400k to implement the National Fostering Framework
· £125k to develop adoption support work
In addition the £1m St David’s Day Fund was announced earlier this year. This Fund allows local authorities to provide financial support to care leavers so they can successfully access employment, education and training opportunities, improving their opportunities towards independent lives.
With our partners, we have developed a National Approach to Statutory Advocacy for looked after children, children in need and other specified individuals. This means a consistency of entitlement and good practice in the commissioning, delivery and awareness of statutory advocacy provision in Wales. The implementation of the National Approach will cost in the region of £1.1 million and Welsh Government has agreed to provide up to £550k to the Social Services Regional Collaboratives to deliver the offer in full; local authorities will fund the rest.
In addition Welsh Government has awarded a 2 year contract, valued at £550,000 per year, to Pro-Mo-Cymru for the provision of Meic. Meic is the national information, advice and advocacy helpline providing children and young people with a single point of contact via freephone, instant messaging and text.
Equality and Human Rights
Equality and Human Rights are central to the work of the Welsh Government and our vision for Wales. We believe in fair treatment of every person, especially those who are most marginalised by social systems that prevent people from meeting their basic needs. We work towards a more equal Wales, to ensure fairer access to services and support opportunities for all.
The actions that the Welsh Government is taking to improve outcomes for people and communities in Wales are set out in the Strategic Equality Plan 2016-20 which was published in December 2016. The Plan is aligned with ‘Prosperity for All: the national strategy, and the Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales) 2015.
Welsh Government’s Equality budget supports the following activities:
Equality and Inclusion Programme –supports the Equality Objectives 2016-20 and protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. The Programme funds seven lead agencies working to provide support to individuals and communities across Wales in relation to gender (WEN Wales); disability (Disability Wales); Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (Tros Gynnal Plant); refugees and asylum seekers (Welsh Refugee Council); sexual orientation and gender identity (Stonewall Cymru); race (EYST) and hate crime (Victim Support Cymru).
As well as providing specialist advice and support on the respective issues via dedicated teams embedded within each organisation, the lead agencies are also working together to develop more joined up approaches on cross-cutting issues in relation to equality and human rights in Wales. The expectation is that this collaboration will develop further over the lifetime of the programme, supported by quarterly networking meetings and shared newsletter.
Contribution to Community Cohesion Grant – Welsh Government funds the work of Regional Community Cohesion Coordinators, embedded in local authorities. Eight Regional Community Cohesion Co-ordinators work regionally across all 22 local authorities, providing all Wales coverage to support the Community Cohesion National Delivery plan. A total of £0.36m per annum is allocated for this area of work, the additional £0.2m from the Community Cohesion budget.
Contribution to Front-line Advice Services Grant – this is aimed specifically for the provision of specialist discrimination advice.
Equality Programme of Work- includes a programme of work taking forward our focus on equality, inclusion and community cohesion, working towards a more equal Wales for current and future generations. This activity includes events, forums and groups; publications and translation; and communication, consultation, engagement and review. It also includes funding of activity around Hate Crime Awareness Week and funding towards a programme delivered through UpRising Cymru.
Budget Advisory Group for Equality (BAGE)- has played a valuable role in successive budgets in helping to improve the equalities evidence base and the understanding of what matters most to those people with protected characteristics. This work has provided an important platform for budget preparations over the years.
A key focus of the Group’s work has been to provide an understanding of the Welsh Government Budget process itself, the current economic environment, and the limitations these put on our equality considerations. This has generated a strong focus on the importance of building a solid and robust evidence base, to ensure engagement with people with protected characteristics across Wales, so that underlying equality issues can be identified and understood. It has helped to improve the Impact Assessment of the Budget over time, leading to it becoming a more integrated assessment, covering Children’s Rights, the Well-being of Future Generations Act, socio-economic disadvantage and Welsh language, as well as equality.
The group’s role is being developed in light of the new two stage budget process. The Cabinet Secretaries for Finance & Local Government and Communities and Children have jointly agreed with the group an outline work plan for 2018, including two meetings in February and July, which will focus primarily on the five cross-cutting priorities in Prosperity for all: the national strategy.
Social Housing Grant (SHG) funds housing schemes that meet local needs and priorities as identified by local authorities. SHG is provided to Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and can be used to provide housing for rent or low cost home ownership through new build or the use of existing buildings.
The SHG Programme is the primary source of subsidy for the provision of affordable housing in Wales and will make a significant contribution to the Government’s 20,000 affordable homes target.
Housing Finance Grant
Housing Finance Grant 2 will provide registered social landlords with an annual revenue stream towards the costs of borrowing funds to develop new affordable homes. The scheme will deliver 1,500 new homes in this term of government.
Affordable Housing Grant
The Affordable Housing Grant will support stock retaining local authorities who are developing their own new council house building programmes. I have allocated £2.5m revenue funding per year for the next 30 years towards the costs incurred by them in developing these new homes.
Building for the Future:
Building for the Future (BFF) will assist in the regeneration of town centres and the surrounding areas by tackling derelict, under-utilised land or buildings. The programme, led by Welsh Government, will acquire, refurbish or re-develop unused buildings and land within or closely aligned to town and city centres across Wales (specifically West Wales and the Valleys).
The programme is designed to create jobs and growth and contribute to the tackling poverty agenda. The programme is therefore strongly aligned to the key priorities for the Welsh Government.
BFF has been awarded ERDF funding via Priority 4: Connectivity and Urban Development. The specific objective is to increase employment through investments in prioritised local or regional infrastructure supporting a regional or urban economic strategy.
The programme fits with the overarching regeneration strategy for the Welsh Government as set out in Vibrant and Viable Places. The objectives of the programme will help deliver the vision for everyone in Wales to live in a well-connected, vibrant, viable and sustainable community, with a strong local economy and a good quality of life.
Welsh Government has worked with local authority partners to prioritise and develop proposals throughout West Wales and the Valleys. Current forecasts suggest the programme will deliver over 1,800 jobs accommodated, over 650 jobs created, include over 240 traineeships on projects, accommodate over 140 enterprises and provide over 58,000 m2 of refurbished premises.
Building for the Future has been allocated £38m ERDF which is to be matched with £16m Targeted Match Funding and contributions from public, private and third sector sources. The total programme cost will be dependent on the final mix of proposals approved; this though will be in excess of £100m.
Home Improvement Agencies
Care & Repair agencies provide a wide range of services including practical support within the home renovation grant process, management of building work, advice on reputable contractors and social care. Most of the agencies have ‘Safety at Home’ initiatives and handyperson schemes covering small-scale but important repairs. In 2016-17, they helped around 27,690 older people.
Front-line Care & Repair agencies remain a priority for the budget. They provide services to help older people remain living safely and as independently as possible in their own homes. There are Care and Repair agencies covering every local authority area. The service is wide-ranging, including practical support with home improvements, management of building work and advice on suitable contractors.
Rapid Response Adaptations Programme
Housing Adaptations and implementation of Enable - Support for Independent Living
Each year, around £50m is spent on adapting older and disabled people’s homes, helping them to live safely and independently. These adaptations are funded as follows:
· Local authorities provide Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs) and other funding; primarily un-hypothecated General Capital Funding.
· Housing associations provide support for minor adaptations for their own tenants
· Traditional housing associations can also qualify for capital funding for Physical Adaptation Grants (PAGs) from the Welsh Government.
· Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) associations provide support for their tenants through their business plans and agreements with local authorities.
· Smaller levels of funding support are provided for older disabled persons via the Rapid Response Adaptations Programme (RRAP) delivered by Care & Repair Agencies and, in the main, funded by the Welsh Government.
Warm Homes on Prescription
The Warm Homes on Prescription pilot commenced in November 2016 allowing medical professionals to ‘prescribe’ new boilers for fuel poor patients suffering from chronic conditions exacerbated by cold homes. In January 2017 the pilot was extended into 2017-18 to allow the pilot scheme to develop further and provide more information on its achievements, to inform decisions on continuation and expansion of the scheme to operate on a national basis.
Evidence from a similar pilot programme run by the UK government identified a 28% reduction in GP appointments and a 33% reduction in outpatient appointments. In addition, there was a reduction in gas consumption and a saving on monthly gas bills.
Consideration is being given to how, following the outcomes of the pilot scheme, any longer-term programme could link with, and inform the targeting of, other existing energy efficiency and home adaptation programmes.
The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016
The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, once implemented, will make it simpler and easier to rent a home. It will replace various and complex pieces of existing legislation with one clear legal framework. Under this framework, landlords will be required to issue a written statement including all the rights and obligations of both landlord and contract-holder under the 'occupation contract'.
This will include a duty on a landlord to ensure a dwelling is fit for human habitation (FFHH), both at the start of, and during the length of, the occupation contract. This duty will address the worst housing conditions as well as place additional obligations on landlords, such as the installation of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and a requirement for five yearly electrical safety inspections.
The Act also places a duty on the Welsh Ministers to make regulations regarding the determination of whether a dwelling is FFHH. A full public consultation on these regulations is currently underway.
The Act is a significant piece of legislation directly affecting the lives of over one million people who rent their home in Wales. In addition to FFHH, the Act will make provisions regarding retaliatory eviction, succession rights, joint contracts and supported accommodation. For these reasons it is important that landlords, contract-holders and stakeholders are fully aware of the implications of the Act. To help ensure successful implementation, £140k has been allocated during the 2018-19 financial year to cover the costs of communication, training and evaluation activities.
Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Bill
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COMMUNITIES AND CHILDREN MAIN EXPENDITURE GROUP (MEG) ANNEX A |
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RESOURCE BUDGET - Departmental Expenditure Limit |
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|
SPA |
Actions |
BEL Title |
2018-19 New Plans Draft Budget £000s |
2019-20 Draft Budget £000s |
|
|
Enabling Children and Communities |
Early Intervention, Prevention and Support |
Supporting Communities |
0 |
6,162* |
|
|
Early Intervention , Prevention and Support |
0 |
252,153* |
|||
|
Financial Inclusion |
Financial Inclusion |
14,927 |
14,927 |
||
|
Support for the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering |
6,125 |
6,125 |
|||
|
|
|
|
21,052 |
279,367 |
|
|
Safer Communities |
Fire & Rescue Services and Resilience |
Fire & Rescue Services |
5,709 |
6,309 |
|
|
Community Fire Safety |
848 |
848 |
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|
Community Support Officers |
Community Support Officers |
16,787 |
16,787 |
||
|
Domestic Abuse |
Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence |
5,000 |
2,562 |
||
|
Promoting Positive Engagement for Young People |
Youth Justice |
4,420 |
0 |
||
|
|
|
|
32,764 |
26,506 |
|
|
Equality and Inclusion |
Equality and Inclusion |
Community Cohesion |
200 |
0 |
|
|
Equality and Prosperity |
2,034 |
1,874 |
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|
|
|
|
2,234 |
1,874 |
|
|
Housing Policy |
Supporting People |
Supporting People |
124,488 |
0 |
|
|
Homelessness Prevention |
Homelessness |
9,907 |
7,907 |
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Independent Living |
Independent Living |
5,159 |
4,884 |
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|
|
|
|
139,554 |
12,791 |
|
|
Homes and Places |
Increase the Supply and Choice of Affordable Housing |
Housing Finance Grant |
11,400 |
13,100 |
|
|
Housing Revenue Funding |
Housing Programme Revenue Funding |
1,073 |
1,073 |
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Regeneration |
Regeneration |
560 |
560 |
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|
Cardiff Harbour Authority |
5,400 |
5,400 |
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|
|
|
|
18,433 |
20,133 |
|
|
|
|
TOTAL RESOURCE |
214,037 |
340,671 |
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* New BELs for 2019-20. The Early Intervention, Prevention and Support Grant may be created following a consultation exercise with local authorities to amalgamate current grant schemes into a single scheme to increase funding flexibilities.
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COMMUNITIES AND CHILDREN MAIN EXPENDITURE GROUP (MEG) ANNEX A |
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CAPITAL BUDGET - Departmental Expenditure Limit |
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SPA |
Actions |
BEL Title |
2018-19 New Plans Draft Budget £000s |
2019-20 Draft Budget £000s |
2019-20 Draft Budget £000s |
|
|
Communities and Tackling Poverty |
Communities and Tackling Poverty |
Gypsy Traveller Sites |
9,816 |
8,300 |
5,000 |
|
|
Community Facilities Programme |
8,000 |
5,034 |
4,838 |
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|
|
|
|
17,816 |
13,334 |
9,838 |
|
|
Safer Communities |
Fire & Rescue Services and Resilience |
Fire & Rescue Services |
1,230 |
1,410 |
1,210 |
|
|
Community Fire Safety |
670 |
670 |
670 |
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|
Domestic Abuse |
Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence |
969 |
969 |
969 |
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|
|
|
|
2,869 |
3,049 |
2,849 |
|
|
Housing Policy |
Independent Living |
Rapid Response Adaptation Programme |
5,660 |
5,660 |
5,660 |
|
|
Integrated Care Fund |
Integrated Care Fund |
10,000 |
15,000 |
20,000 |
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|
|
|
|
15,660 |
20,660 |
25,660 |
|
|
Homes and Places |
Achieve Quality Housing |
Major Repairs Allowance and Dowry Gap Funding |
108,000 |
108,000 |
108,000 |
|
|
Increase the Supply and Choice of Affordable Housing |
Social Housing Grants (SHG) |
207,137 |
123,219 |
110,147 |
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|
Land for Housing (Financial Transactions) |
10,000 |
10,000 |
10,000 |
|||
|
Extra Care |
4,301 |
0 |
0 |
|||
|
Increase the Supply and Choice of Market Housing |
Help to Buy Wales Fund and Other Schemes (Financial Transactions) |
88,748 |
63,067 |
34,700 |
||
|
Regeneration |
Regeneration |
21,921 |
28,662 |
36,808 |
||
|
|
|
|
440,107 |
332,948 |
299,655 |
|
|
|
|
TOTAL CAPITAL |
476,452 |
369,991 |
338,002 |
|