Issue - meetings

Concerns a contractual matter (paragraph 3)

Received a report from the Corporate Director of Children’s Services, setting out proposals to outsource childcare services to ensure that the childcare provision is financially viable and sustainable.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council achieve its Community Priorities of ‘Improving Health, Housing and Social Care’ and ‘Better Education and Learning for All’, to:

(i)  The implementation of Option 3 for the future delivery of full day childcare services, which will involve the commissioning of an external provider to run three of the existing Council-run nurseries;

(ii)  A one-off subsidy of £100,000 per nursery (ie up to £300,000 in total to support 3 nurseries) in the first year of operation by the external contractor(s), to be funded from the existing Sure Start grant; and

(iii)  The full funding and Human Resources (HR) implications of Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE) and potential redeployment of staff be fully addressed and agreed with relevant officers before entering into any formal agreement.