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Report of the Assistant Chief Executive

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Assistant Chief Executive seeking approval for the revised service specification and agreement due to the savings options agreed by Cabinet to reduce the level of funding for the provision of the Equalities Partnership.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the revised service specification and agreement for the provision of Sefton Equalities Partnership be approved; and

(2)       it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions. Consequently, the Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Performance and Corporate Services) had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by the Cabinet Member as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impractical to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan because the funding for the Equalities Partnership managed by Sefton CVS has been reduced significantly in light of the reductions in public sector funding and will reduce further for the new financial year. In this context, the service specification and agreement has had to be reviewed to reflect this reduction in funding.