Open Hastings Search or ask⌘K

Council Monitoring Report - Quarter 2 2025/26

Committee report · Cabinet · Tue 16 Dec 2025 · East Sussex County Council

Read the council's document ↗

What it recommends

In the report's own words. A recommendation is a proposal: the meeting can agree, change or reject it.

What the meeting decided

The minutes record: Agreed. “RESOLVED to: 1) note the latest monitoring position for the Council; 2) recommend that Scrutiny consider the target for the CO2 arising from County Council operations measure set out in paragraph 2.2 of the report; and 3) approve the proposed Capital Programme variation to include the installation of fire suppression systems at Maresfield and Pebsham Waste Transfer Stations set out in paragraph 3.7 of the report.” minutes ↗

In plain English

Each sentence was checked against the passage it cites; how the checking works.

Recommended · This went to the meeting on Tue 16 Dec 2025. What was decided is in that meeting's minutes.

Cabinet received a report on the Council's monitoring position for Quarter 2 of 2025/26, covering the Council Plan, Revenue Budget, Capital Programme, Savings Plan and risks. p2p3p7

The report projects an overspend of £24.1m for the Council by 31 March 2026. p8

3 further sentences of this summary were held back by verification and are not shown. We only publish claims that survived checking against the cited passages.

Show the 4 passages this is based on
  • p2Report to: Cabinet Date: 16 December 2025
  • p3Report by: Chief Executive Purpose: To report Council monitoring for Q2 2025/26 RECOMMENDATIONS
  • p71. Introduction 1.1 This report sets out the Council’s position and year-end projections for the Council Plan targets, Revenue Budget, Capital Programme, and Savings Plan, together with Risks at the end of September 2025.
  • p81.2 Broad progress against the Council’s four strategic priority outcomes is summarised in paragraph 4 and an overview of finance and performance data is provided in the Corporate Summary at Appendix 1. Strategic risks are reported at Appendix 8. 2. Overview of Council Plan 2025/26 outturns and strategic risks 2.1 The Council Plan 2025/26 and the Portfolio Plans 2025/26 – 2027/28 have been updated with available 2024/25 outturns and final performance measure targets. All plans are published on the Council’s website. The Corporate Summary (Appendix 1) contains a forecast of performance against targets. 2.2 We continue to make progress on reducing our carbon emissions. However, carbon and cost reduction work is now focused on business-as-usual activity such as the planned building maintenance programme, following the reprofiling of the capital budget in 2024/25. Analysis undertaken over the summer, using the latest available data on our emissions for 2024/25, suggests that with our current resources the current target is not achievable. It is recommended that Scrutiny are recommended to consider the target and what it would take in terms of cost to meet it, as well as what impact resource constraints, local government reorganisation and the establishment of the Mayoral Combined County Authority would have on it. Further information is provided in Appendix 4. 2.3 The Strategic Risk Register, Appendix 8, was reviewed and updated to reflect the Council’s risk profile. Risk 5 (RPPR) has an updated risk definition. Risk 1 (Roads) and Risk 6 (Local Economic Growth) have updated risk definitions and risk controls. Risk 9 (Workforce), Risk 15 (Climate), Risk 20 (Placements for Children and Young People in Our Care), and Risk 22 (Oracle) have updated risk controls. 3. Budget Outturn 3.1 The detailed revenue projections for each department are set out in the relevant appendices which show a projected overspend of £24.1m by 31 March 2026 (£25.8m at quarter 1).

Places and organisations it names

Other papers for this meeting

The council's document is the record; this page collects what Open Hastings knows about it. If something here is wrong, it is corrected in place and logged on the about page.