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Expenditure on Consultants 2016/17 and 2017/18

Meeting: 26/09/2017 - Children, Education and Families Budget Sub-Committee (Item 25)

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Report CSD17136

 

The Sub-Committee considered a report outlining the total expenditure of the Local Authority on consultants across all Local Authority departments for 2016/17 and 2017/18 to date.

 

At its meeting on 7th September 2017, the Executive and Resources PDS Committee considered a report on Local Authority expenditure on consultants across all Council departments for both revenue and capital budgets and requested that this expenditure be considered by the PDS Committees for each Portfolio.  Within the Education, Children and Families Portfolio, revenue expenditure which was focused on the need for one-off specialist advice and to respond to insufficient in-house skills or resources had totalled £84,958 in 2016/17 and £24,750 in 2017/18 to date.  Capital expenditure on consultants totalled £949,622.84 in 2016/17 and £293,622.61 in 2017/18 to date.

 

RESOLVED that the expenditure on consultants relating to the Education, Children and Families Portfolio be noted.