Statement of Accounts 2011/2012 - Blackburn with Darwen Borough ...

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The board of Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus comprises both Council and NHS representatives.
There are close links between the Care Trust Plus and the Council’s Adult Social Services department and
monitoring information is shared at regular points throughout the financial year as part of the Annual Service
Agreement. This enables the commissioning strategy to be advised by the Council’s knowledge of the area’s
needs and facilities.
The Council makes payments for the costs of the strategic commissioning and TUPE’d staff. The gross payments
to Care Trust Plus were £1,640,500, Contributions from Care Trust Plus received under a section 256 agreement
and other funding agreements totalled £3,564,900.
The Council hosts a joint building control service with Burnley Borough Council. Under a service level agreement
both authorities contribute towards the net running cost of the service, with Burnley contributing 35.5% (£103,933
in 2011/12) and Blackburn with Darwen contributing 64.5% (£188,837 in 2011/12).
Entities Controlled or Significantly Influenced by the Council
The Council has a 15 year contract with Capita Business Services Limited and Capita Symonds Limited, due to
finish at the end of June 2016. Payments made to the companies during 2011/12 amounted to a total of
£12,756,000. Whilst the Council has no direct control over the companies, and the level of finance provided is not
significant in terms of the size of the Capita Group, it is likely that the operation of the local Blackburn Business
Centre is dependent to some extent on the continuation or otherwise of this contract.
The Council made contributions totalling £591,800 to five organisations (Blackburn with Darwen Carers SVC,
Care Network, Local Involve Network, Older Peoples Forum and Blackburn Youth Zone) during the year where
the amounts concerned provided a significant proportion of those organisations’ income. In these cases, there is a
presumption that there is substantial reliance upon such contributions for the future continuation or otherwise of
the organisations concerned.
37 Capital expenditure and capital financing
The total amount of capital expenditure incurred in the year is shown in the table below together with the
resources that have been used to finance it. Where capital expenditure is to be financed in future years by
charges to revenue as assets are used by the Authority, the expenditure results in an increase in the Capital
Financing Requirement (CFR), a measure of the capital expenditure incurred historically by the Authority that has
yet to be financed.
31 March
2011
31 March
2012
£000 £000
160,264 Opening Capital Financing Requirement 178,033
Capital investment
1,054 Intangible assets 581
39,542 Property, plant and equipment 58,933
Revenue Expenditure Funded from Capital
19,326 under Statute 12,366
457 Investments 0
Sources of finance
( 1,161 ) Capital receipts ( 415 )
( 451 ) Revenue contributions ( 413 )
( 35,085 ) Government grants and other contributions ( 33,522 )
( 5,913 ) Minimum Revenue Payment ( 6,791 )
178,033 Closing Capital Financing Requirement 208,772
- - 64 - -