Issue - meetings

Youth Services Mutulisation

Additional documents:

Decision:

Having considered an officer report, the full text of the confidential Business

Plan, a referral from the Children & Young People Select Committee and a

presentation by the Cabinet Member for Children & Young People, Councillor

Paul Maslin, the Mayor agreed that:

(1) the plan to run a ‘mutuals only’ tender process under Regulation 77 of

the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the services be approved;

(2) the current Lewisham youth services team bid for this contract and, if

successful in the process, would form a charitable community benefit society

as its legal structure; and

(3) the outline timelines and resource requirements as set out be noted.

Minutes:

In introducing the report Councillor Maslin recognised that the proposals

advanced a new model of service delivery run by former Council staff on a not

for profit basis. He acknowledged the Business Plan held a certain degree of

risk especially with regard to future funding and that the process would be

evolutionary.

The Executive Director for Children & Young People’s reported the proposals

had been the subject of pre decision scrutiny by the relevant Select

Committee and that their concerns had been addressed in the report laid

before the Mayor.

The Chief Executive added that the proposals were novel but represented an

avenue from which the organisation could learn and could become an

important option across the entire organisation, if done properly.