Decision Details

On 13 November 2018, Cabinet:-

1. Approved the Full Business Case (FBC) (at Appendix 1 to the report) for the PURE (Placing Vulnerable Urban Residents Into Employment and Training) project, which will provide support to vulnerable Birmingham citizens into employment at a cost of up to £12m initially from 1st January 2019 to 16^th June 2020, but potentially extended to 31st December 2021, subject to Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) approval;

    

    

2. Approved the City Council acting as the Accountable Body for the PURE project and accepted the offer of ESF revenue grant from DWP of up to £6m (attached at Appendix 3 to the report), which is being matched against an equivalent amount of City Council revenue main programme budgets in the Adult Social Care and Health Directorate;

    

3. Noted that existing European Commission compliant Social Inclusion contracts are due to expire on 30th November 2019 and these will be reprocured as part of wider Housing Related Support contracts during this period, which will be subject to a separate Cabinet report. Existing contracts for Disability and Mental Health support will be extended to their full duration of up to 30th June 2021, under existing delegated authority to the Corporate Director, Finance and Governance, and Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources and implemented jointly with the Corporate Director, Adult Social Care and Health, by which time they will have been re-procured separately from the Social Inclusion contracts;

    

4. Agreed to delegate to the Corporate Director, Adult Social Care and Health, the defrayal of expenditure consistent with the delivery of the PURE project using existing and new procurement contracts to be re- commissioned during this project period;

    

5. Agreed to delegate to the Corporate Director, Adult Social Care and Health the submission of a Project Change Request (PCR) to DWP to extend the project to 31st December 2021 and to request an additional £0.5m ESF grant subject to the City Council providing an additional £0.5m of revenue match-funding funded from Adult Social Care & Heath Directorate revenue budgets;

    

6. Authorised the City Solicitor to negotiate, execute and complete all necessary documents to give effect to the above decisions.

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19 NOVEMEBR 2018.