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Supporting People - Supporting Independent Living: Folder 2 - Part 3: Operational Guidance and Part 4: Financial Guidance

7. Capital Pipeline Projects:

Dear Colleague

We are currently working with HM Treasury and the Department of Work and Pensions to put in place the arrangements for funding pipeline Supporting People projects and need information from you to assist us in this work.

This correspondence only concerns pipeline projects for services which would have been eligible for Transitional Housing Benefit and which are linked directly to new capital investment. Further correspondence about floating support projects will follow shortly.

We now need information from you about any current or planned capital projects which you are taking forward that will result in new services that will be provided for the first time between April 2003 and March 2006. This is not an invitation to bid for resources for new capital projects, nor to bid for the extension of existing services.

For public sector projects - that is those funded by Communities Scotland, local authorities and other public sector bodies, such as health boards, we need the information on forms A and C for each project, PFI or PPP projects should complete A and C also. For charitable or private sector projects we need the information on forms B and C. We need this information by 6 December. We understand this is a challenging timetable and will be happy to provide such support as we can.

This paper is also available on our website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely
GEOFF HUGGINS

Notes to Form C

Revenue funding: Please set out the revenue funding already committed from SNAP, Social Work Services, Health or other sources. You should include details of revenue funding in the revenue-funded boxes, including amounts.

Client group: Which client group is this intended to provide services for? Please refer to the Data Definitions and Code List consultation document issued in May 2002.

Service Capacity: Please set out the number of household units the service will be supporting when the service comes into operation. Where this is an existing service and new units are being added include here only the new units.

Tenure status: Please indicate whether the service is for tenants.

Unit cost: Please include an estimate of the unit cost of revenue funding which it is considered is required.

New or existing service: Please indicate if the service is an expansion of an existing service or an entirely new service. Where it is an existing service note its current capacity.

Background to the development of the Service: Please include here some additional background information about the service, and its strategic priority. This should be brief but outline how the service came to be planned and required, making particular reference to its place in your shadow strategy, and the evidence of need for the service. This should include reasons for the estimated level of unit cost. Note that decisions will be influenced by your assessment of unit cost funding needed but no guarantee is given of any specific level of funding. Please also submit a short statement explaining how the service capacity has been arrived at - we wish to see evidence that the number of units quoted is based on a reasonable assessment of need and will not necessarily award Supporting People grant for the full number bid for, even if matched funding is available.

Service Management and organisation. Please set out what the proposed management structures are; whether there are detailed plans in the form of job descriptions and sets out objectives and performance criteria.

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