Agenda item

Report of the Chief Grants Officer.

With reference the previous item on the Agenda, the Committee received a report seeking an allocation of up to £1.5m from the Committee’s budget uplift agreed in 2016/17 for a detailed programme supporting people, predominantly young people, with mental health issues into employment and noted the discussion under the previous item relating to the City Corporation’s governance procedures for annual budget allocation and the carry-forward of unspent funds from one financial year to the next.

Members were advised that the mental health element of the programme, which was part of the proposed Bridge to Work grant programme, would build on internal research undertaken in 2016 to identify the most effective mechanisms for supporting young people with mental health problems into and in employment.  The funding of the programme would require the carry-forward to the 2017/2018 budget of unspent monies allocated in the 2016/17 budget.

RESOLVED – To agree

a)            A grant of £65,000 to the Centre of Mental Health.

b)           An allocation of £1,435,000 for the “Employment & Disability – Bridge to Work Programme: Mental Health” to be funded in the next financial year.