Decision Maker: Executive Member for Children & Families
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
In line with paragraph 6(b) of the Executive
Members’ Delegation Scheme, the Executive Member for
Children’s Services is asked to authorise the agreement for
NYCC to accept the Youth Justice Grant for the following financial
year 2023/2024, which will allow the Chief Financial Officer to
authorise the acceptance of the grant. This will enable the local
authority to receive the allocated funding to support the continued
delivery of the Youth Justice service
Section 39 (1) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 requires the
cooperation of statutory partners to form a Youth Offending Team
(YOT). There is a duty for the local authority, the police, the
probation service, and health named partners to cooperate in order
to secure youth justice services appropriate to their area. YOTs
are partially funded by the Government’s youth justice grant,
in addition to funding from the council and statutory partners, to
deliver elements of the youth justice system at a local
level.
The local Youth justice plan must be submitted to the Youth Justice
Board by 30 June 2023 to ensure timely payment of our Youth Justice
Grant 2023/24.
We are awaiting confirmation of the actual amount of grant funding
however the Youth Justice board have advised in a letter dated 17th
March that they hope to be able to confirm your 2023/24 grant
funding in Spring 2023. We have been advised that the funding for
2023/2024 will be similar to that of the previous year.
Based on the allocated funding for 2022/2023 we expect to be
awarded a grant to the value of around £900,000 However if it
exceeds the value of £1,000,000 the report will need to be
approved by the Executive committee.
This will enable the local authority to
receive the allocated funding to support the continued delivery of
the Youth Justice service.
This will enable the local authority to
receive the allocated funding to support the continued delivery of
the Youth Justice service.
Nil
Publication date: 01/08/2023
Date of decision: 01/08/2023
Effective from: 09/08/2023
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