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See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 06/08/2024
Decision:
To seek authorisation from the Monitoring
Officer for the early termination of the Active Travel Social
Prescribing contract.
Lead officer: Kerry Perruzza
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Service Director Partnership, Early Intervention and Localities
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 16/07/2024
Decision:
A Rule 16 decision was taken by the Mayor on
26th August 2022 to accept a grant allocation of £3.834m from
the Department of Education (DfE) for the Family Hub
Lead officer: Callum Helman
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Service Director Partnership, Early Intervention and Localities
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 02/08/2024
Decision:
To accept grant funding of £42,650 from
Coram, which, per the memorandum of understanding for the grant,
must be used to hire 1 x Early Help Systemic Practice Lead -
intermediate level to lead on the Supporting families Systemic
Practice Pilot (Sept 24 to Dec 25) in partnership with Department
of Education, Coram and the Institute of Family Therapy.
Upon acceptance of the grant an Early Help Systemic Practice Lead
post is to be created, which will be subject to job evaluation
(JE). If the outcome of JE is that the grading of the post is grade
9 or above, then the additional funding required above the grant
allocation of £42,650 will be found from within the Early
Intervention and Prevention budget for a period of 12 months
only.
Lead officer: Alison Tomes
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Service Director Partnership, Early Intervention and Localities
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 23/07/2024
Decision:
This decision creates 4 grade 7 Family
Intervention Worker posts within the Early Intervention &
Prevention Service for 12 months and 1 Domestic Abuse Navigator in
Parenting and Family Support Service. These posts will work within
the emerging Family Help model as set out in Working Together to
Safeguard Children 2023 and the refreshed policy for
Children’s Social Care, Stable Homes Built on Love.
Total cost for 1 Year is £187k.
Lead officer: Alison Tomes
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 20/08/2024
Decision:
To fund 3 grade 7 Well Doncaster Officers at
the cost of £100k for 1 year, this will enable the Well
Doncaster team to continue to build on community insight and
capturing the voice of residents within deprived communities
focusing on the top 30 areas of deprivation. Continuing to build
resources into the Team Doncaster Thrive
approach, enabling the conditions for people to live in a community
conducive to good mental health and allow for the building blocks
to reduce local health inequalities. Since 2015, Well Doncaster has
worked in and with the communities of Doncaster to listen to lived
experiences and get to know each community’s strengths. We
want to continue to ask our communities to tell us what is
important to them, empower them to enact the change they’d
like to see, and follow their lead. The use of the Public Health
reserves funding will enable us to continue to listen and work with
communities to turn their ideas and strengths into action,
providing the support, connections, and inspiration they need to
shape the health and wellbeing of our city. Because the approach is
community centred and supports residents to be involved in shaping
their health future this will enable a deeper understanding of
resident who are underserved and find accessing health services in
their community difficult. This additional year of funding will
enable work with primary care to align health services in the
community to meet the needs of residents who live there. Well
Doncaster builds on 9 years of being a community-led and
evidence-based health and wellbeing approach offering the support,
connections, and inspiration for our residents to make a
difference.
Lead officer: Vanessa Powell-Hoyland
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 20/08/2024
Decision:
To fund 3 grade 7 Well Doncaster Officers at
the cost of £100k for 1 year, this will enable the Well
Doncaster team to build on community insight and capturing the
voice of residents within deprived communities around the top 30
areas of deprivations. Continuing to build resources into the Team
Doncaster Thrive approach, enabling the conditions for people to
live in a community conducive to good mental health and allow for
the building blocks to reduce local health
inequalities. Since 2015, Well Doncaster has worked in and with the
communities of Doncaster to listen to lived experiences and get to
know each community’s strengths. We want to continue to ask
our communities to tell us what is important to them, empower them
to enact the change they’d like to see, and follow their
lead.
The use of the CEV funding will enable us to continue to listen and
work with communities to turn their ideas and strengths into
action, providing the support, connections, and inspiration they
need to shape the health and wellbeing of our city. Because the
approach is community centred and supports residents to be involved
in shaping their health future this will enable a deeper
understanding of resident who are underserved and find accessing
health services in their community difficult. We will work with
primary care to align health service in community that meet the
needs of resident who live there.
Well Doncaster builds on 9 years of being a community-led and
evidence-based health and wellbeing approach offering the support,
connections, and inspiration for our residents to make a
difference.
Lead officer: Vanessa Powell-Hoyland
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 20/08/2024
Decision:
To utilise reserves from the CEV funds to
extend the Community Connectors for one year 2025-2026 to the value
of £70,000. This will
enable Well Doncaster to continue the great work of working with
the VCFS to deliver hyperlocal community prevention with and for
resident who are offered underserved and from protected
characteristics
Lead officer: Vanessa Powell-Hoyland
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 20/08/2024
Decision:
Receive £30,000 funding from Rotherham
Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) to fund
Mental Health Community Connectors project for 2 months (Oct-Nov
2024) as part of the Mental Health Community Transformation
Programme
Lead officer: Emma Nicholas-Hernandez
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 22/08/2024
Decision:
For City of Doncaster Council to provide
£87,112 of funding via
Public Health reserves to Match Doncaster Place Partner (LDP)
lottery investment, to enable request to stretch the Lottery
Investment, ensuring we can maintain service function of Get
Doncaster Moving and delivery through to March 2028
Lead officer: Dean Wiffen
The City of Doncaster Council has a statutory
duty to administer the Neighbourhood Plan process in accordance
with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as
amended) and this includes the approval of Neighbourhood Plans for
progression to referendum and the organisation of the referendum in
accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (Referendum) Regulations
2012 (as amended).
The Stainforth Neighbourhood Development Plan was independently
examined by John Slater (BA (Hons) DMS MRTPI FRGS), his report
recommended that the Neighbourhood Plan should, subject to the
recommended modifications, proceed to referendum.
The draft Neighbourhood Plan (incorporating the modifications
recommended by the examiner) meets the basic conditions and the
other legal tests and as such, a referendum must now be
held.
Decision Maker: Service Director Development and Traded Services
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 27/08/2024
Decision:
To approve the Stainforth Neighbourhood Plan
to progress to referendum in accordance with the Neighbourhood
Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).
Lead officer: Christophrer Hall
In the 2023-24 Quarter 4 Finance and
Performance Improvement Report that was presented to the Mayor and
members of cabinet on 19th June 2024 it referred to an underspend
of £3.1m on the general fund which enables the Council to
allocate resources to provide targeted funding towards priorities,
which have been identified by our residents. In addition, a further
£0.2m is available following a review of earmarked
reserves.
One of these priorities is £800,000 targeted towards road
resurfacing, this funding is in addition to the 2023/24 and 2024/25
Network North Roads Re-surfacing Fund of £1.6m for the 2
years, matching the
annual allocation with CDC funding. This funding will be allocated
on the same basis as the Network North Roads Re-surfacing Fund and
approved in the quarterly Finance & Performance
Improvement
report.
This was fully approved at cabinet on 19th June 2024.
Decision Maker: Service Director of Environment
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 09/08/2024
Decision:
Approval of:
• The draw down 2023/24Underspend Ear Marked Reserve.
• Allocation of £800k Ear Marked Reserve for Highways
Maintenance, to be used on the maintenance of local roads within
the City of Doncaster which consist of:
o Identify individual sites for carriageway permanent
patching.
o Resurfacing of local / urban estate roads, identified on a worst
first basis
o Robust & permanent carriageway patching.
• Approval to add new schemes to the Capital Programme for
2024/25.
Lead officer: Wayne Southall
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Service Director Development and Traded Services
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 08/08/2024
Decision:
To approve essential fabric, mechanical and
electrical works, identified in condition survey, to Mexborough
Library.
To include these works in the 2024/25 Place capital programme,
where this scheme will be delivered and monitored.
Lead officer: Janine Porter
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 05/08/2024
Decision:
To approve the allocation of £25k from
the Environment & Sustainability earmarked reserve to undertake
a economic impact assessment of a Biosphere Reserve.
To procure a third party to carry out the economic impact
assessment and to enter into any necessary contractual
documentation.
Lead officer: Alice Wilson
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 02/09/2024
Effective from: 15/07/2024
Decision:
To formally accept the change control within
the Transforming Cities Programme and enter into funding agreements
with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.
Lead officer: Kerry Perruzza
To use underspend of Disabled Facilities Grant
(DFG) to provide an Assistive Technology Library which will support
people with a short-term people care need within our community
who
may need support to maintain independence in their own homes via
either commissioned services or non-commissioned services.
It is expected that the costs of the AT Library would be circa
£200K for the initial set up and with further costs of up to
£200K for purchasing of the equipment to be available to
‘loan’ once the trials are complete from the
£2.5m one-off underspend.
It is also that the £60K recurring underspend to be used to
provide a Strategic Lead to ensure its effective direction, focus
to develop the offer within the authority to include work practices
&
processes, information & knowledge sharing, data collation,
customer feedback, reporting, change & implementation to ensure
effective ongoing up to date AT throughout Doncaster. It is
expected that this post will be a Grade 10 and initially for 2
years, with a view to mainstreaming after that period, the post
will be responsible for writing the AT strategy for the Council, it
is expected that it may report to the Principal OT.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 20/08/2024
Decision:
Approve the decision to:
? Commence an Assistive Technology (AT) Library with supporting
Information Technology (IT) system/process to record AT and where
it has been loaned or procured and ensuring that appropriate budget
virements take place where appropriate.
? Provide provision of Wifi internet access at Wicket Hern,
? Provide 2-year funding for a Strategic Lead for Assistive
Technology post
? Provide recurring funding within the Home Emergency Alarm
Response Team (HEART) service for 1 x .81fte Installation Officer
who will support installation and training of AT
with departments & commissioned services within HEART to
support AT Library as part of their role and the increase to
commence as part of the HEART restructure.
? The Installation Officer will Support Teams with installation of
AT for people who need supported living as detailed above.
? A HEART Manager will support with the procurement, stock control
and financial elements of the AT Library
Approve each Trial as detailed within this ODR to identify the most
appropriate and effective access to AT to support individuals in
their own homes.
Lead officer: Phil Holmes
Victoria Homecare Limited (VHL) is one of the
framework providers under the council’s legacy framework. The
Council will continue to retain VHL as one of its frameworks
providers but will terminate all current call off contracts. (Call
off contracts are contracts awarded under a
framework).
The Provider has notified the Council that there is an instability
relating to the delivery of service due to staffing levels, amongst
other difficulties. As a result, the council has been left with
no
alternative but to terminate the call off contracts it holds with
VCL.
The Provider will work with the Council to ensure a safe, smooth,
and efficient transfer of the
Services to new providers is completed in a seamless way and to
have minimal impact on the individuals receiving the service.
There are currently 28 packages of support, totalling 269.25 hours
(per week) that will be transferred to alternative
providers.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 08/08/2024
Decision:
To terminate all call off contracts held with
Victoria HomeCare Limited with immediate effect.
Lead officer: Kathryn Anderson-Bratt
The reason for this decision:
? The project will mark an event that is of high importance to
Doncaster communities.
? The project will engage a new audience with Doncaster’s
mining heritage.
? The project will protect heritage at risk.
? The project will contribute to the delivery of the Doncaster
Culture Strategy 2030.
? The investment will test out new activity to showcase
Doncaster’s heritage.
? Heritage Doncaster will be more resilient through the development
of staff skills and
capabilities.
? The investment will build a stronger relationship with the
Heritage Fund, one of the main funders for Heritage activity.
Heritage Fund require an element of partnership funding. The value
of this is £29,150 and it is proposed that the Culture
Services Core Budget and Shared Prosperity Fund provide this
match
to the value or £29,000. £11,000 will come from culture
services staffing resource, £18,000 will be from YKSPF2
(investment in new public realm art, Q3771). Friends of Doncaster
Museums
will provide a donation of £150.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 21/08/2024
Decision:
To accept the £97,250 grant from the
Heritage Fund for the ‘Championing Change – A
Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Miners’ Strike
in Doncaster’ project.
Heritage Doncaster will lead a series of activity to mark the 40th
Anniversary of the yearlong miners’ strike. Working in
partnership with key community and creative partners we will
deliver
an engaging, arts and heritage programme that recognises the
realities of the strike alongside celebrating the strength of
Doncaster’s mining communities.
We will support new audiences to engage with the heritage of their
own community, we will capture the memories of people who lived
through the strike, we will tell the stories of our
people, capturing the change that has taken place.
Lead officer: Rachel Blake
The City of Doncaster Council, along with
other local authorities, is faced with the
challenge of an increased ageing population. Doncaster’s
older population housing needs are recognised within
Doncaster’s Housing Strategy Update 2020-25, which identifies
that “For older people our approach will be to link new
housing developments for older people with tailored care and
support models, including Extra
Care Housing for older people, who would otherwise be at risk of
losing their ability to live independently and having to move into
a residential or nursing home.”
In 2019 Doncaster Council commissioned a Strategic Housing Needs
Assessment. The Housing Needs Assessment identified that people
living with a range of needs and disabilities have housing
requirements, and concluded:
? Doncaster needs more supported housing.
? A broad range of supported housing services need to be
available.
? The delivery of suitable homes for people with needs in owner
occupation must
be facilitated, including considering people’s
aspirations.
? Adaptable homes are needed, built to a high standard to promote
good health
and wellbeing.
? Detailed long-term needs analysis is required.
? Land must be made available, along with capital and revenue
costs.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 31/07/2024
Decision:
To Direct Award the Harrogate Court contract,
on the same terms and conditions as the current contractual
arrangement, for an additional 12 months.
The value of the service for the additional 12 months (from the 1st
January 2025 to 31st December 2025) is approximately
£34,867.00.
Lead officer: Phil Holmes
The decision to fund temporary additional
staff is necessitated by the current DFG referral
backlog and the need for improved service delivery. The adaptations
team is currently managing
a backlog of 806 cases. To provide some context, in the year 23/4,
the adaptations team
received 727 DFG referrals and without significant investment would
lead to further delays and
an increasing backlog. Current completion timescales are 294 days
which is significantly outside
of the target completion for major adaptations of 182 days.
This extensive delay significantly impacts the quality of life for
individuals awaiting vital home
adaptations.
Current capacity within the adaptations team is insufficient to
drive the required changes at the
necessary pace to address this backlog effectively. Business
support in the adaptions team
have dealt with some 300 customer queries for the month of May
alone. Moreover, the team
lacks the resources to implement sustainable processes and
adequately support the crucial
migration to MOSAIC, which is due to begin in September
2024.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 09/07/2024
Decision:
To utilise funds from the Disabled Facilities
Grant (DFG) to finance three Business Support Officers and one
Technical Officer on 12-month contracts. This temporary additional
capacity will enable the adaptations team to:
1. Address the current backlog of DFG referrals.
2. Implement and improve customer-facing communications.
3. Support the migration efforts from their current systems to
Mosaic.
The temporary increase in capacity aims to tackle immediate
challenges while enhancing longterm efficiency and service
quality.
Lead officer: Phil Holmes
To increase the monetary limit that Team
Leaders and Advanced Practitioners would be able to
authorise on Mosaic.
The current agreed limit is £35,000 regardless of whether the
care package requires one or two carers to meet a person’s
outcomes, which was agreed in 2021, in line with the Mosaic Go Live
date. Since this time there have been three fee uplifts to all
commissioned services.
In 2021 it was determined that the agreed limit would support the
service to gain the right balance around how many support plans
required approval above the Team Managers’ level, 2
versus the levels of scrutiny that were required. It was also
agreed that this level was proportionate and that if the limit was
set any lower then this would result in too many approvals
requiring Head of Service authorisation.
Due to the fee uplifts since 2021, the proposed limit of
£49,000 for 2024/25 would allow some flexibility over and
above a standard residential placement, which at the time would
have cost
roughly £41,000. The new proposed limit of £49,000
would maintain this flexibility against the current standard annual
residential placement cost of £41,000.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 12/08/2024
Decision:
To increase the amount Team Managers and
Advance Practitioners can authorise up to within a care and support
plan, to agree a person’s Personal Budgets (Level 4 for
Localities & Integrated
Discharge Team (IDT). and Level 6 for Community Adult Learning
Disabilities Team (CALDT)/
Mental Health).
Lead officer: Phil Holmes
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Children, Young People and Families (DCS)
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 26/06/2024
Decision:
1) To appoint the following representative
onto Doncaster Council’s Standing AdvisoryCouncil on
Religious Education (SACRE): -
? Hannah Lambert – Church of England, Anglican
representative
2) Reaffirm the current Membership of SACRE as detailed at Appendix
1.
Lead officer: Jane Reed
Providers within Adult Social Care have seen
significant cost pressures from the increase in National Living
Wage and cost of living increases.
Fee uplifts have been completed across Adult Social Care and the
Shared Lives Contract is at a level of 6.7% in line with inflation
as at September 2023.
Should an uplift not be applied to the Shared Lives contract then
there is a likely impact to the delivery of the service and the
potential destabilising effect on the provision of services to the
individuals supported by the Shared Lives service.
The budget for 24/25 was set allowing for an inflationary uplift of
6.7% and therefore the fee uplift recommended is in line with the
budget available.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 18/06/2024
Decision:
To provide an annual uplift of 6.7% (Sept 23
CPI) to the Shared Lives Contract for
24/25.
The budget for 24/25 will now be £625,990 which is an
increase of £34,630 on the
previous financial year’s budget.
This will bring this contract in line with the other uplifts that
have occurred within
Adult Social Care. The uplift will be effective from
01/04/24.
Lead officer: Phil Holmes
In October 2023, the Department of Health and
Social Care (DHSC) launched the Accelerating Reform Fund (ARF) with
a total of £42.6 million in grant funding over 2023 to 2024
(£20 million)
and 2024 to 2025 (£22.6 million), to support innovation in
adult social care. The aim of the fund is to support the growth of
person-centred care services with a priority focused on:
• support to unpaid carers,
• to respond to rising demand and the changing needs of local
populations,
• address barriers to adopting innovative practices and build
capacity and capability in adult social care.
The ARF is to be utilised to kick-start development of projects
that can be further supported through existing local authority
funding.
A £300,000 ‘floor’ per Integrated Care Systems
(ICS) consortium will cover some core project start-up costs and
will be provided in full in the first year 2023-2024. The DHSC have
advised that
the fund is ringfenced and can be carried forward into the next
financial year i.e., beyond March 2025.
Other allocated funding will cover some programme costs and will be
calculated based on the adult social care Relative Needs Formula
(RNF) at a local authority level and summed to the ICS
at a consortium level.
Decision Maker: Director of Adults, Health and Well-Being
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 23/07/2024
Decision:
This is funding provided by DHSC and the MOU
for the provision of the Adult Social Care ARF
has been agreed for 2024/25. This is being done in a consortia
approach across South
Yorkshire, with Rotherham MBC, City of Doncaster Council, Barnsley
MBC and Sheffield City
Council. Rotherham MBC is the lead authority for this fund and has
the MOU in place with the
DHSC (as detailed above).
This request is to utilise the funding received via the DHSC to
establish a post within AWC to take a strategic lead on the
transformation of the shared lives offer across Doncaster, whilst
also leading and representing CDC as part of the South Yorkshire
consortium.
Lead officer: Faye Tyas
The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling
race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across
Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time.
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) have agreed to
host a stage of the Men’s 2024 Tour of Britain.
This will be in collaboration with all four South Yorkshire Local
Authority districts with the event taking place on Thursday 5th
September 2024 with a planned route of starting in Sheffield,
passing into Rotherham, Doncaster and then finishing in
Barnsley.
SYMCA have agreed to pay the hosting right fee to host the event
with British Cycling but all operational costs for the event are to
be covered by all four Local Authorities.
The £30k maximum budget will be used for traffic management
fees, operational management costs, stewarding and
communications.
City of Doncaster are currently finalising plans with SYMCA and
British Cycling, and therefore unable to give an actual working
budget required.
Due to our history and experience of hosting major cycling events,
we have based our estimate of cost on this experience and a
£30k budget would be required.
The cost is based on the complexity of a route that enters the
borough via Tickhill and then passes through the following
communities of Wadworth, Conisbrough, Denaby, Cadeby, Scawsby,
Brodsworth, Hooton Pagnell before leaving the borough via
Clayton.
Due to tight timescales of Doncaster being informed and chosen as a
host city, this ODR is an indicative working budget to allow
approval to minimise delays moving forward. Upon receipt of the
contractual agreements for City of Doncaster Council, we will then
have more clarity on all parties roles and responsibilities for the
event.
If the £40k working budget is rejected, Doncaster
wouldn’t be able to host the event in the borough.
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 28/08/2024
Decision:
To allocate a maximum of budget £30k to
manage and operationally coordinate the Doncaster’s Stage of
the Tour of Britain on the 5th September 2024.
Lead officer: Dean Wiffen
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Service Director Partnership, Early Intervention and Localities
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 09/07/2024
Decision:
To agree price increase requests which have
been received for individual placement for children and young
people.
Lead officer: Jessica Whitworth
The Mayor and Full Council declared a Climate & Biodiversity
Emergency in September 2019. The Council subsequently published an
Environment & Sustainability Strategy and set a target for
delivering an 85% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, and net
zero by 2040, against a 2005 baseline.
In 2023, the Sustainability Unit held their first climate action
micro-grant scheme, funding 15 community-led initiatives across the
borough. These activities reached an average of 35-40
people per event including children and young people, asylum
seekers and refugees, families and residents living in low-income
households and sought to address some of the key challenges facing
our communities through climate action and nature connectedness.
Funding was provided by Synetiq; due to the success of this event
funding will be matched by the earmarked reserve for
2024.
Conducted in partnership with Well Doncaster, the 2023 fund meant
that we increased partnership opportunities with these
organisations and enhanced their exposure, thus strengthening our
collective action on climate change and our great 8
priorities.
As part of our growing Climate Doncaster partnership, we will
deliver round 2 of the Climate Action micro-grant fund, aligning
this with Regenerative Neighbourhoods, where groups in priority
areas will be eligible for an uplift in funding. The campaign for
2024 will also align with Choose Kindness and responds to the
priorities of Doncaster communities, captured during consultation
exercises.
Decision Maker: Director of Adults, Health and Well-Being
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 13/08/2024
Decision:
To approve the allocation of £10,000
from the Environment & Sustainability earmarked
reserve to fund a climate action micro-grant scheme for
communities.
Lead officer: Amie Lake-Knott
This decision has been taken because the
current Security Contract is set to expire. A new Contract is
necessary as the Councils Security needs have changed and these
need to be captured under the new Contract. The current contract
only covers the provision of security staff for North Bridge Depot
and the One Stop Shop in the Civic Office. Following spend analysis
in Atamis by Procurement, it has been identified that other Service
Areas are frequently using the
current provider for security services. After communication from
Procurement the permanent requirements have been identified and
incorporated into a specification for the new tender
opportunity.
Decision Maker: Service Director Economy and Development
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 05/05/2024
Decision:
The decision to publish a tender opportunity
for a new Security Contract has been decided. All relevant service
areas (Public Buildings Maintenance, Customer services, Enforcement
and
Culture and Commercial) have been and are working with Strategic
Procurement and Legal to develop tender documentation and
Terms
Lead officer: Lewis Lindley
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Chief Financial Officer & Service Director Finance & Technology
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 23/07/2024
Decision:
To approve the updated Write Off Policy and
Scheme of Delegation in accordance with the Financial Procedure
Rules.
Lead officer: Alan Stoves
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 04/07/2024
Decision:
1. Approval for the drawdown of Capital monies
to fund additional Vehicle & Plant (V&P) required following
Street Scene’s Shift Change programme.
2. Implementation of staffing changes and AIA payments.
Lead officer: David Ridge
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 12/06/2024
Decision:
1, To approve the spending plan as detailed in
the body of the report.
2, To note the terms and conditions of the Funding agreement and
any specific items.
Lead officer: Victoria Shackleton
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Service Director Economy and Development
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 15/07/2024
Decision:
To approve the making of an Article 4
Direction (“A4D”) to cancel the Article 4 Direction at
Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) which came into effect in June
2023, and was confirmed in September 2023. The current A4D removes
permitted development rights for the demolition of buildings within
the operational area of Doncaster Sheffield Airport and shown on
the map in Appendix 1. The effect of the current DSA A4D is that
any proposal to demolish a building within the specified boundary
requires a planning application to be submitted and the proposal to
be assessed through the full planning process.
The current DSA A4D was implemented to protect the buildings at DSA
from demolition and protect airport functionality whilst the future
of the airport remained uncertain. It was deemed that the
development (the potential demolition of buildings) was, at the
time, prejudicial to the proper planning of the area.
However, Mayor Ros Jones announced on 21 March 2024 that a 125-year
lease had been agreed for the City of Doncaster Council to take
over the airport, which will be the first stage in the process to
re-open the airport. Given this news, it is deemed that there is no
longer a risk
that buildings at the airport may be under threat of demolition,
and furthermore, that in taking on the lease of the airport, the
Council or associated operators may wish to undertake certain works
allowed under permitted development rights to prepare the airport
for re-opening. To facilitate this aim in an expedient manner, it
is necessary to remove the planning controls that were put in place
to preserve the airport functionality, which has now been secured
via the signing of the lease.
Lead officer: Christophrer Hall
To comply with the Secretary of State’s
Academy Order of 23rd April 2024.
Decision Maker: Service Director Education & Skills
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 30/07/2024
Decision:
Further to the academy order of the Regional
Director issued on 23rd April 2024, the Council is now required to
execute all formal documentation necessary to complete the
conversion to
academy status.
This decision record approves the appropriate instruction to the
Council’s Legal section to complete and seal the appropriate
documentation in order for Rossington Tornedale Infant School to
convert to academy status on 1st October 2024 as a converter
academy. It is proposed that Rossington Tornedale Infant School
will join a Multi Academy Trust – Leger Education
Trust.
Lead officer: Neil McAllister
A per the ODR
Place/Planning/09/00190/OUTA/02_2024 has already allocated funding
for a pedestrian crossing on West End Lane, Rossington the cost of
delivering this would be in the region of £ . This would
improve the safety of road using within the area.
Decision Maker: Service Director Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 15/07/2024
Decision:
1. To approve the allocation of £ of
S106 Monies for Pedestrian Crossing – West End Lane,
Rossington
2. To gain S151 Officer approval to add the scheme to the
Council’s Capital Programme.
3. To give delegated authority to the Director of Place to
implement and deliver the scheme.
Lead officer: Sam Whitehurst
See attached ODR
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 30/07/2024
Decision:
Doncaster Public Health has allocated
£115k from the Supplemental Substance Misuse Treatment
Recovery Grant 24/25 to fund a fibroscanner which will be utilised
at the Mexborough Community Diagnostic Centre.
To transfer £115k to DBTH to cover their procurement of the
fibroscanner. A grant agreement will be entered into between DBTH
and the Council to allocate this funding once the fibroscanner has
been purchased by DBTH.
Lead officer: Andy Collins
The Flat at 47a has been vacant for some time
since the previous St Leger tenant gave notice. PFG have requested
to take on the unit as an addition to their current lease agreement
which currently consists of one mixed use premises at 45 and the
shop unit at 47 Montrose Avenue.
They are well established in the area and have developed strong
working relationships with many health support providers offering
mental and physical health support. By taking on the flat at
47a
it is felt this will improve and increase the level of support the
team are able to offer to the community offering increased social
and economic benefits to the area.
As the dwelling is currently classed as social housing with the
Housing Revenue Account and sits outside of the commercial lease of
no 47, Secretary of State approval is required to change the
use of this property from social housing and into a classification
of a commercial property. Consultation has been carried out with
neighbours living in the vicinity of 47a Montrose and the results
found no objections to the residential flat becoming a commercial
property. Results from the consultation are included in the
consultation section.
Decision Maker: Service Director Economy and Development
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 29/07/2024
Decision:
To approve the application to the Secretary of
State for a change of use from social housing to a commercial use
for 47a Montrose Avenue, which if granted will allow the PFG to
incorporate the
2 bed first floor property at 47a Montrose Avenue into their
existing lease agreement portfolio. PFG are the current
leaseholders at 45,45a & 47 Montrose Avenue.
PFG originally became the leaseholder of 45 Montrose Avenue in 2012
with a rental amount of £500 per annum. In November 2019 they
were supported in becoming leaseholders of our empty commercial
unit at 47 Montrose Avenue, incorporating this with that of mixed-
use premises at 45 Montrose Avenue for a combined agreement with a
new rental figure agreed at £1,000 per annum.
If the application for change of use for 47a Montrose Avenue is
approved, then that property will be included within the existing
lease agreement. They intend to use the additional unit to
help
increase the support they can offer to the community. They work
very closely with St Leger Homes & key partners such as the
local NHS Housing to provide ongoing support to service
users.
Previously the flat at 47a was let as social housing until June
2023 and has been vacant since, the rent when tenanted was
£74.70 per week resulting in income of £3,884.40 per
annum. It is important to note that changing the flat to a
commercial use will also require planning permission to be applied
for and secured before the flat can be used for commercial
purposes.
Lead officer: Dean Leggott
See attached ODR for details
Decision Maker: Service Director Economy and Development
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 15/05/2024
Decision:
To acquire 1.15 acres of land located at
Pheasant Hill Park, Rossington to provide a site for a fit for
purpose facility to accommodate primary care services.
Lead officer: Gillian Fairbrother
The perception and reports to both CDC and SYP
of Anti-social behaviour, vehicle nuisance and low-level crime has
become a rising issue for the Lakeside area over the last few
years, the increase in local housing developments estates and
businesses within the area has resulted in an increase of the local
footfall for the site which potentially will result in increasing
amounts of complaints for the area. With the increase in footfall
and age of the site the area is outdated and in need of extensive
regeneration and future proofing.
Decision Maker: Executive Director of Place
Decision published: 29/08/2024
Effective from: 15/07/2024
Decision:
Approval of S106 allocation and earmarked
reserves of for the Lakeside area, funded by the below allocations:
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S106 Agreement Plot 8/9 (agreement signed 14/04/2009; developer
xxxxxxxxxxx)
S106 Agreement Plot 6 (agreement signed 09/03/21; developer is
xxxxxxxxx )
Plot 6 Earmarked Reserves in lieu of Service Charge Plot 5a
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Earmarked Reserves in lieu of Service Charge xxxxxxxxxx
To include the scheme in the Place capital programme.
Lead officer: Rachel Reeder