Decision details

Received a report proposing a new commissioning approach for corporate grants and setting out the advantages of this in the context of the Council’s wider relationship with the voluntary and community sector.

 The Executive noted that the services provided through this system would be closely monitored and expected to deliver agreed outcomes to a specification set by the Council.  The report also set out the key principles, priorities and themes that would be used when considering the tendering and commissioning process for 2008-2009. 

Agreed, in order to ensure that the new process could be implemented as part of the 2008/9 budget process, to:

1.  The principles of a new method for allocating amounts from the Corporate Grants budget as set out in the report;

2.  The commissioning principles and intentions for 2008 – 2009 as set out in the report; and

3.  That officers should enter into detailed discussion with the Legal Services Commission in order to establish Barking and Dagenham as a pilot location for Integrated Social Welfare Law Services.