Social Value Ideas for Inverclyde Council

Medium-term funding gap widens

The Chief Financial Officer set out a major medium-term financial pressure: increased inflation, higher borrowing costs, demographic decline affecting grant allocation, and a projected £11.5m funding …

“Speaker 8: Thank you, Provost. The report provides counsel with details of the updated finance strategy for 2026 through 2036, all review and approval…”

Current year overspend/underspend mix

The period 5 finance report shows a small combined underspend overall, but with a significant social care overspend offset by a health underspend. This indicates ongoing pressure in social care servic…

“"as a period five we're currently projecting an under spend of £46,000 for the combined budget. Social care is projecting an overspend of £672,000. Th…”

Policy and Resources underspend

The committee was told that the Policy and Resources revenue budget is forecasting a substantial underspend, with some of that amount earmarked to support loan charge pressures. This is a clear financ…

“This report reported revenue project and then we'll want the revenue budget updated. Speaker 7: Hi. This is the regular report to update on performan…”

Data protection policy updated

The committee was asked to approve a routine update to the data protection policy. Officers said the changes were not substantive and were intended to align the policy with current practice.

“Speaker 14: Oh, thank you, convener. This is the data protection policy update for approval. The policy sets a council's approach to the appropriate p…”

Social care overspend

The HSCP is projecting an overspend in the social care budget, adding wider financial pressure across adult social care commissioning and provider spend.

“"we're currently projecting an overspend of £811,000 in the social care budget."”