Item 15 - Appendix 4
West Dunbartonshire Council · 27 May 2026
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WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL MONITORING OF EARMARKED BALANCES 2025/26 BY CHIEF OFFICER DEPARTMENT 25/26 Estimate 25/26 Spend to Date 25/26 Probable Outturn To be carried forward into 26/27 Description £ £ £ £ 1 Revs & Bens: Social Welfare Fund 374,103 - 374,103 - To pay the balance of Scottish Welfare Fund grants expenditure funded by the Scottish Government. Carried forward to 2025/26. 2 Revs & Bens: DWP funding 53,000 - 53,000 - To support activities related to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction, including system enhancements scheduled for completion in FY25/26. 3 Financial Service Centre: Automation Team (VKY) 26,284 - - 26,284 Expenditure linked to the VKY Automation contract approved in 2020/21 as part of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) rollout. 4 Intromissions 200,000 - 200,000 Build up of reserve to pay for future liability for historic child abuse cases (as agreed at Council October 2024) 5 Regulatory - New document management system 90,000 - 45,000 45,000 The Planning and Building Standards require a new document management system to replace the current system. The current timeline is to procure over two years due to the different stages in the process and the time needed to undertake them. 6 Regulatory - Underspend in 'design panel' budget for IDOX upgrade 7,000 7,000 7,000 - This balances relates to the initial stages of designing the new Planning and Building Standards document management system and will be spent this financial year. 7 Developer Contributions 379,000 - 379,000 These are financial or in-kind contributions received from developers and are associated with specific agreements. They need to be retained and used for the purposes specified in the individual agreements. 8 Energy Efficiency 330,000 - 330,000 The funds relate to a Scottish Government Grant received some years ago for energy efficiency projects. A programme of energy improvement projects will be developed with the potential to recycle savings back to the fund. 9 Business Support 220,000 - 220,000 Business Loans Scotland Income to be used for future business support activity over the next 2-3 years. 10 OD & Change Training Budget 8,773 - - 8,773 Funding allocated to meet defined training needs 11 Previous provision for equal pay/holiday pay 194,663 - 9,499 185,164 Balance for outstanding equal pay/holiday pay claims and associated legal expenses. RESOURCES REGULATORY & REGENERATION PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY ITEM 15 - APPENDIX 4
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WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL APPENDIX 4 MONITORING OF EARMARKED BALANCES 2025/26 BY CHIEF OFFICER DEPARTMENT 25/26 Estimate 25/26 Spend to Date 25/26 Probable Outturn To be carried forward into 26/27 Description £ £ £ £ 12 Cost of Living 4: Fund the successful spending on Sport & Leisure for children during holiday times for the next 4 years. £45,000 per year. 107,040 45,000 45,000 62,040 Additional payments to WDLT for holiday activities (eg gym and swimming classes) provided over Easter ,summer and autumn 13 Cost of Living 7: Introduce a programme of creative engagement and learning focused on supporting people through recovery and improving wellbeing. £5,000 per year for 4 years. 10,000 - 10,000 The £5k for each of the four years was partially spent in 23/24 and 24/25 and will be fully spent in 25/26 once Glencairn and the new museum space in Clydebank are opened. 14 Transfer to Foodbank support fund 151,680 31,680 31,680 120,000 15 Smoothing Fund - - 172,199 - The smoothing fund is being used to offset service overspends where savings/efficiencies have not been achieved in year. £150k is being used to cover the delay in implementing a new management operating model in facilities. In addition, £16k will also be met from the smoothing fund in relation to the shortfall in the generation of site income from television/film productions within Comms & Marketing and a further £6k due to the delays in the recruitment of the council's Digital Officer. It is anticipated that these costs will be offset by savings in 26/27. TOTAL USE OF EARMARKED RESERVES 2,151,543 83,680 737,481 1,586,261 COST OF LIVING STRATEGIC RESERVES