BMBC 21: Barnsleys Local Area Agreement 2008-2011

STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL CONTEXTINTRODUCTIONThis section provides a brief overview of the strategic and financialcontext that has shaped the development of the LAA, and will stronglyinfluence the delivery and implementation over the next 3 years. This isnot an exhaustive list but reflects a number of key areas that willunderpin the delivery of the LAA going forward.FINANCIAL CONTEXTOne Barnsley has identified its key priorities and ambitions through theSustainable Community Strategy and the Local Area Agreement. Inorder to deliver programmes that will support their achievement it isvital that the resources available to One Barnsley are clearly identified.To fully determine the potential resources available to One Barnsley, anexercise has been carried out to identify the public spending budgets ofOne Barnsley partners. Due to existing commitments, this is not anindication of immediate resource availability but it does establish anunderstanding of the overall budgets available to all partners.Furthermore, it sets a financial framework from which One Barnsley, asa partnership, can potentially realign its existing funding towardsdelivering its key priorities and programmes as set out in the LAA andSCS.Table 1 – 2007/08 Budgeted spend of One Barnsley PartnersOne Barnsley partner 2007/8RevenueBud.£MBarnsley Black and Ethnic MinorityInitiative (BBEMI)2007/8Capital£M0.6 -Barnsley College 1.5 9.4Barnsley Council 470.4 105.2Barnsley Primary Care Trust 431.6 11.5Learning and Skills Council 31.8 0.7South Yorkshire Fire 9.4 -South Yorkshire Police 24.5 0.6Voluntary Action – Barnsley (VAB) 0.4 -TOTAL 970.1 127.41. The analysis excludes Job Centre Plus who budget at regional rather than district level.2. Barnsley College’s revenue budget is some £20.5m but the majority of the spend isfunded from LSC funding and excluded to avoid double counting.3. SY Police and Fire also budget on a regional basis and this represents an estimatedshare to Barnsley.The Government have also introduced the Area Based Grant (ABG)from 1 April 2008. ABG pools together a number of existing grantregimes into a single fund but without the usual constraints associatedwith these grant regimes such as strict ring-fencing and fundingconditions. By providing funding in this way, the Government is aimingto ‘free-up’ Councils to work more closely with local partners and fromthat make more effective use of available funding to deliver localpriorities and programmes including the LAA and SCS.27Strategic & Financial Context Barnsley’s Local Area Agreement 2008-11