Decision details

The Corporate Director Communities submitted a report the request the acceptance of £372,735 of funding from Lancashire County Council (LCC) Public Health Team to provide healthy weight services for adults and children in Wyre for a period of five years (from 2024/25 to 2028/29) and request the acceptance of £30,000 of funding from the LCC Public Health Team to provide an active travel programme in Wyre for a period of one year (2024/25).

Decision

The Resources Portfolio Holder and then Leisure, Health and Community Engagement Portfolio Holder agreed:

·         That approval be given to accept the funding from the LCC Public Health Team of £372,735 for five years to provide healthy weight services for adults and children in Wyre and funding of £30,000 to provide an active travel programme in Wyre.

·         That approval is given to proceed with the engagement of YMCA Fylde Coast  and Fleetwood Town Community Trust to provide the physical activity and the men’s weight management elements of the adult weight management programme under the exemption to Contract Procedures contained within the Financial Regulations and Financial Procedure Rules on the grounds that exceptions may apply where: “The services are of a specialised nature carried out by only one or a limited number of organisations which have local experience with no reasonably satisfactory alternatives available”.

·         That approval is given to proceed with the engagement of Go Velo and Fleetwood Town Community Trust to provide the active travel programme under the exemption to Contract Procedures contained within the Financial Regulations and Financial Procedure Rules on the grounds that exceptions may apply where: “The services are of a specialised nature carried out by only one or a limited number of organisations which have local experience with no reasonably satisfactory alternatives available”.