Decision details

The additional vehicles are required to support the delivery of the adults transformation programme, which focuses on locality working. Following a service review, it has been identified that an additional 3 vehicles (1 for each area) are required.
The Communities’ Team have recruited additional staff and all vacancies have been filled across the teams.
The teams are working across a large geographical area with an extended theme/service priorities.
There is a need to ensure staff are responsive and proactive as possible out in the areas, currently the teams are faced with not being able to respond to jobs/cases as there isn’t a vehicle available or staff are double crewing to respond to calls, which isn’t efficient use of resources.
Doncaster has a large geographical area and the teams have moved to multiple staff work bases to ensure best coverage across the areas.

To approve the purchase of 3 small cars for Stronger Communities from the Investment

Option 1 - Order the additional vehicles to ensure the adult transformation project priorities are met
Option 2 - Do nothing - this would have significant impact on the service delivery.
Option 3 - Utilise pool cars – not always available at short notice and would not allow a responsive service provision. Teams are based out in localities and not at bases where pool cars are available. Additional vehicles would be required in the pool car fleet to meet the additional demand.
Recommendation
To progress option 1, This will provide the user departments with much needed resource to deliver the service priorities.