Decision Maker: Director of Learning, Opportunities and Skills
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Please see table in the attached Officer
Decision Record detailing requests for uplifts from Providers for
out of authority education requested for the year from 1st April
2021.
The uplift request relates to the cost of places prior to the 2021
framework for the Council being put in place. For these placements
the contract with the providers states that; ‘The Provider
may in assessing their need for an annual, inflationary, fee
request consider information derived from a number of sources such
as RPI/Teachers Pay award, but at all times must pay due heed to
working in partnership with Local Authorities to attain Value for
Money and to achieve efficiency improvements’. Both parties
will have regard to the actual costs incurred by the Provider. If
the Provider proposes to increase the Price and/or Additional
Service Fee, then such increases must be demonstrated by the
Provider as being justified.
For transparency, the main reasons for the requests of uplifts from
the below providers is due to unavoidable cost pressures such as
inflation, National Living Wage increases and statutory pension
contributions of staffing.
To consider the annual uplift request from
providers of Out of Authority Education placement
Provision.
See attached Officer Decision Record regarding
Alternative Options considered and rejected.
Publication date: 11/08/2021
Date of decision: 15/07/2021
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