Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environment & Community Health Services (Community Manager) regarding the impact on Huntingdonshire communities of changes to financial support of voluntary groups in the County.

Requested further information from Cambridgeshire County Council and NHS Cambridgeshire on the benefits and cost implications of delivering a single funding agreement for Councils of Voluntary Services in Cambridgeshire. 

With the aid of a report by the Community Manager, the Cabinet was acquainted with proposals published by Cambridgeshire County Council and NHS Cambridgeshire to introduce a single funding agreement for the Council's of Voluntary Services (CVS) across Cambridgeshire (copies of the report and the funding agreement are appended in the Minute Book). 

Members were advised that Cambridgeshire County Council currently provided financial support to all CVS and that a number of inconsistencies and inequalities existed in the scheme.  Having expressed concern over the potential cost implication to the authority of delivering the new arrangement, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  that Cambridgeshire County Council and Cambridgeshire NHS be requested to provide further information on the benefits and cost implications of delivering a single funding agreement for Councils of Voluntary Services in Cambridgeshire.