Issue - meetings

Report FSD16002

The Committee received a report on Liberata’s performance in the provision of Exchequer Services in the period from 1^st April to 30^th September 2015. At the request of the Chairman, additional information was tabled about outstanding Care Services debt.  A letter from Liberata’s Contract Director, Amanda Inwood-Field, was included with the report, and she attended the meeting with other senior managers from Liberata.

Officers reported that efforts had been made to reduce the amounts of aged debts and disputed invoices. Utility debt had reduced to £359k, and the collection rate for in-year debt was 88.13% as at the end of September; it was anticipated that the target of 90% would be met at the end of the year. The overall debt position had improved considerably. A debt management system was being procured to bring together data concerning an individual’s debt to be extracted from different systems and displayed on a single screen.

(Councillor Simon Fawthrop declared that he was employed by British Telecom in connection with this report.)

RESOLVED that the information in the report be noted.