DECISION

1.    To agree to the Borough becoming a member of the jointly owned Pan London Vehicle for Commissioning.

a.    The Pan London Vehicle (“PLV”) will be a company limited by guarantee (“CLG”) and owned by the London local authorities. The PLV will not be focussed on profit generation, and it is intended that any surplus generated by the PLV will be reinvested into its activities.

b.    Be part of the PLV, secure children’s home provision for a five-year period from 1^st April 2023 to 31^st March 2028, with a break-point after two years once the refreshed business case has been developed to include service pricing structure, commissioning approach, practice model and location, the 20k per year membership payable for five years, has now been removed for the development stage (first two years) of the PLV, which will be funded by the Department of Education grant.

c.     Collaborate with other PLV members on future joint commissioning programmes.

d.    Commits in principle to joint oversight and risk/benefit sharing, through the PLV, of the secure children’s home provision, for a five-year period to 31^st March 2028, including the build, service development and service commissioning phases, subject to ratification after the revision of the secure children’s home business case, and renewable on a ten yearly cycle thereafter, with break-point after five years.

e.    Delegates authority to the Corporate Director, Children and Culture, in consultation with The Mayor to:

f.      finalise the legal documents required to set up, join and run the PLV and

g.    make the final determination on the Council’s membership of the PLV, following completion of the revised secure children’s home business case and, if appropriate, enter into all the legal agreements, contracts and other documents on behalf of the Council required to implement and run any aspect of the PLV arrangements.

2.    To note the Equalities Impact Assessment as set out in Section 4 of the report.

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, CHILDREN AND CULTURE (J. THOMAS)

Senior Commissioning Manager Integrated Commissioning (K. Sanderson)