Social Value Ideas for Luton Borough Council

Sub-regional fostering hub

The council approved participation in a DfE-backed sub-regional fostering recruitment and retention hub with Bedford and Central Beds. The arrangement is intended to increase fostering capacity, reduc…

“So following a successful bid to the Department for Education, Luton, Central Beds, and Bedford Council have gone in partnership and secured funding t…”

Rising children’s placement costs

Children’s residential placement costs are under severe financial pressure despite falling demand. The council reports fewer residential care days, but external market pressures, high unit prices, lim…

“Um so you'll see the report that's been presented and an appendix of some graphs. Um we're basically talking about the our approach to managing the fi…”

Children’s services placement costs

Children’s services remained the main revenue pressure, driven largely by high-cost residential placements and limited supply in the provider market. Officers said demand management had kept numbers s…

“Now you may recall chair is that the overspend of the children's services in 2627 budget we made an additional provision in order to take care of that…”

Hightown flats approved

The committee approved a revised scheme for 23 flats at 32-42 Duke Street on a brownfield site in Hightown. The scheme included a car-free layout, family-sized units, landscape improvements, and mitig…

“The proposal satisfies the local plan policies and the recommendation is to approve subject to a section 6106 legal agreement to secure the heads of t…”

Buckle Close overspend clarification

Members asked for the reasons behind the Buckle Close overspend and were told the figure was only a forecast, with the money not yet incurred. Officers said they were in a procurement process that wou…

“Speaker 2: Yes. On page ten and eleven, I was asked well, we were given assurances that we get a list of the updated reprofiled projects from your sel…”

Adult Social Care Improvement Projects

Adult social care has a programme of improvement projects following the CQC inspection, including digital redesign, integrated neighbourhoods, dementia strategy/delivery planning, rapid discharge comm…

“So I'll just take you through now. So in terms of the overall local authority rating um that the CQC has a standardized process that it uses with um f…”

Adult social care improvement plan

The CQC inspection found Luton adult social care to be performing well overall, with strengths in prevention, reablement, care planning, safeguarding, leadership and staff culture. Areas for improveme…

“Speaker 17: So, you know, our practitioners really honored people's rights and choices. And we also, you know, they they they focused on our whole fam…”