Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the report of the Director of Communities.

1.         Approve an increase to the Council’s revenue budget of £225,471.08 to deliver the 2021 HAF Programme.

2.         Agree that the above funding will be spent in accordance with Department for Education directives; targeting provision of enriching activities and healthy food to children who are in receipt of free school meals.

The Cabinet Member (Communities, Social Justice and Wealth Building), Councillor Aniela Bylinski Gelder, presented a report of the Director of Communities requesting to increase the revenue budget as a result of new external funding for the Holiday and Food Programme, in line with financial regulations.

The report explained that South Ribble’s allocation of Holiday and Food (HAF) Grant for 2021 is £225,471.08, that funding came from the Department for Education, and was administered by Lancashire County Council.  This funding was ringfenced to delivery of a programme of school holiday activities in August and December 2021.

Members supported this proposal and noted the ongoing •Scrutiny Review Task Group regarding Health Inequalities. 

It was proposed by Councillor Aniela Bylinski Gelder, Cabinet Member (Communities, Social Justice and Wealth Building), seconded by Councillor Paul Foster, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member (Strategy and Reform) and

Resolved (unanimously)

1.         To approve an increase to the Council’s revenue budget of £225,471.08 to deliver the 2021 HAF Programme;

2.         Agree that the above funding will be spent in accordance with Department for Education directives; targeting provision of enriching activities and healthy food to children who are in receipt of free school meals.