Social Value Ideas for Devon County Council

LPPI transition costs noted

The transition from Brunel to LPPI has involved direct costs, including a £1.46 million cost for changes to emerging market assets. Further transition and wind-down costs are expected as LPPI rational…

“The investment assets have all been transitioned to LPPI and in the most cases that has been done at an insignificant cost with the effectively just t…”

Genocide divestment routed to forum

A proposed motion to divest from companies based in countries found guilty of genocide was debated extensively, but the committee decided not to make a recommendation to council. Instead, it agreed th…

“I think what I would suggest is that to defer this today and your good self along with um the assistant director talk to the other H authorities and t…”

Net zero investment policy held

The committee reaffirmed the fund's net zero investment strategy, noting substantial progress against climate targets since the 2019 baseline but also that further reductions are now harder to achieve…

“So so not a lot of improvement since figures from last year. little change in those um but we have achieved a lot over the period since we started to …”

DoLS funding uplift

The council has made staged budget commitments to improve Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards capacity and reduce backlog pressures. This includes £500,000 in 2024/25, £1.5 million in 2025/26, and a pla…

“In 2024/25 the council agreed additional funding of £500,000 ... in 2025/26 the council invested one and a half million ... by 2728 we will have a per…”

DoLS backlog still high

Despite progress, the DoLS service remains under significant capacity pressure. The waiting list was reported as 3,439 and then reduced to 2,144, but the service is still constrained by a national sho…

“It's still at 3,439 as of last Monday ... We were down to 2,144 people ... There's a national shortage of best interest assessors.”

Updated highway adoption standards approved

The committee approved a major refresh of Devon's highway adoption standards, replacing guidance last updated in 2006. Officers said the update reflects national guidance, council priorities, and stro…

“the last time that we updated our our standards for constructing new highways was back in 2006.”

Roll out standards to developers

The committee approved delegation to Jamie Holland to manage publicity and introduction of the updated standards, including contacting developers and their contractors. Officers said they would publis…

“delegate authority to the deputy director for planning, Jamie Holland. um to manage publicity and introduction of those updated standards including en…”