Additional funding for disabled children's services

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Scottish Government received £34 million Barnett Consequentials
from HM Treasury in 2007-08 arising from new money to implement the
Aiming High for Disabled Children strategy in England. Under the
Concordat, the Scottish Government has allocated that £34 million
to local authorities as part of the GAE settlement.

I would like to request the following information under the Freedom
of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:

1. Please provide information which shows how much your local
authority received as its allocated share of the £34million in:

a) 2008-2009 and
b) 2009-2010

In responding to this request, please consider all relevant
information which might accurately confirm the amount received,
including information contained within documentation such as
budgets and related papers; council and committee papers and
minutes; correspondence between and among officers, or between
officers and third parties; meeting papers; and any other relevant
papers and documents.

2. Please provide all information - including information contained
within budgets and related papers; council and committee papers and
minutes; correspondence between and among officers, or between
officers and third parties; meeting papers; and any other relevant
papers and documents - showing:

a) how you intended to spend your allocated share of the
£34million, and
b) how you actually spent your allocated share of the £34 million.

Please provide this information for both 2008-2009, and 2009-2010.

If you need any clarification in relation to these requests, please
let me know.

Yours faithfully,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Dear Mr Gillespie

I refer to your request for clarification in relation to my Freedom
of Information request regarding additional monies for disabled
children's services.

It is my understanding that each local authority received a share
of the £34 million as part of their total revenue grant funding in
each of the years identified in the original FoI request. And that
because the money was Barnett Consequentials it would have been
included in councils' share of former ring fenced grants as shown
in the local government finance settlement 2008-2011. I am trying
to determine how much of your council's share of the £34m which was
included in this funding stream was in fact allocated and spent on
disabled children's services.

Yours sincerely,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)