Capital budget transfer from Chief Minister's Department to Education, Sport and Culture

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A decision made (22 October 2009) regarding: Capital budget transfer from Chief Minister's Department to Education, Sport and Culture.

Decision Reference: MD-C-2009-0085
Decision Summary Title):	Capital budget transfer from Chief Ministers Department for ESC IT Strategy		Date of Decision Summary:	19th October 2009
Decision Summary Author:	Loretta Outhwaite Finance Director		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	ESC IT Strategy – budget transfer from Chief Ministers Department		Date of Written Report:	10th August 2009
Written Report Author:	Peter Robinson – Assistant Director - Finance		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Education, Sport and Culture Department ICT Strategy: transfer of non-recurring budget from the Chief Minister’s Department ISD capital vote to support implementation.
Decision(s): The Minister agreed to the proposed transfer from the Chief Minister’s Department ISD capital vote to the ESC Department amounting to £600,000.
Reason(s) for Decision: To provide one-off funding from the Corporate IT Vote (Capital Programme) to enable the ESC Department to implement the second phase of its ICT Strategy.
Resource Implications: Non-recurring transfer of £600,000 budget, from the Chief Ministers Department to the ESC Department.
Action required: Assistant Director – Finance (ESC) to provide appropriate codes to the Treasury Corporate Finance so that the budget transfer can be actioned.
Signature:		Position: Chief Minister
Date Signed:		Date of Decision:

Capital budget transfer from Chief Minister's Department to Education, Sport and Culture

STATES OF JERSEY

EDUCATION, SPORT AND CULTURE

ESC IT Strategy – budget transfer from Chief Ministers Department

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to request approval for the transfer of £600,000 from the ISD capital vote within the Chief Minister’s Department to support the implementation of the ESC Department’s ICT Strategy. The funds have been included in the 2008 States’ Annual Business Plan ‘ICT Capital funding allocation 2008 to 2012’.

Background

1.1 This current phase of the Strategy builds on early aspirations and sets out how new technologies will be used to increase personalisation, promote collaboration, support staff development, improve communication and streamline information management and administration. It seeks to tackle the challenges of e-safety and to provide robust processes and mechanisms for ensuring that our pupils can navigate and explore the virtual world securely.

Whilst the Strategy has been drawn together by the Department for Education, Sport and Culture its gestation began in schools. Its implementation will represent another major leap forward in the use of new and creative technology to enhance the educational experience for learners.

The cost of the current phase of the Department’s ICT Strategy is £3.45 million over three years. The Department has been seeking permanent additional funding to support the Strategy for some time, with the current budget being supplemented by an allocation from the central ICT Fund and from savings identified from ESC capital projects.

1.3 The annual costs can be broken down as follows:-

PC Replacement	£562,500
WAN Development	£70,000
CMIS Developments	£189,000
Learning Platform	£150,000
ICT Coordinators	£110,000
Web Development	£50,000
Teacher Training	£20,000
Total	£1,151,500

1.4 The Department has worked with officers at the Property Holdings Department to identify sufficient savings within Le Rocquier School and Hautlieu School, being the two outstanding capital projects that have remained the responsibility of ESC following the transfer of responsibilities to that Department.

Funding for one year, amounting to £600,000 has been allocated within the States’ Corporate IT vote (Capital Programme) for 2008. Whilst recognising this commitment, the Department has been able to continue with its Strategy implementation from the funds already earmarked, and on the basis that the additional funds would be available when required. The budget transfer is therefore being actioned in 2009.

1.6 Permanent additional funding has been sought for the ICT Strategy through the 2010 to 2012 Resource allocation process.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the Minister agrees to a budget transfer of £600,000 from the Chief Minister’s Department ISD capital vote to the ESC Department to support the Department’s ICT Strategy.

Peter Robinson

Assistant Director - Finance

10th August 2009