DOCSLIB.ORG

2016/17 Budget Update – Supplementary Report

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
2016/17 Budget Update – Supplementary Report Report title 2016/17 Budget Update – Supplementary Report Meeting Date Authority 17 February 2016 Report by Document Number The Commissioner and the Director of Finance and FEP 2551A Contractual Services Summary The latest Budget Update report (FEP 2551) was originally presented to the Resources Committee at its meeting on 14 January. At that meeting, the Committee agreed to note a number of comments by the Chair of Resources Committee on that report. The full decision of the Resources Committee is set out in the memo included in the agenda for the meeting. It noted that the savings target for 2016/17 is now £4.5m lower than the original target, it went on to note that the reduced savings target should primarily be applied so as to reduce so far as possible the impact of operational cuts in 2016/17. This supplementary report provides additional information to support the Authority’s consideration of those decisions alongside the Budget Update report presented in January. This report also presents the key points of the Mayor’s Consolidated Budget for 2016/17 and reports on the outcome of the public consultation that took place between 7 December 2015 and 1 February 2016. The report recommends proposals to achieve a balanced budget in 2016/17, noting that the final decision on the budget for next year, including the associated establishment changes and the capital programme, will be made at the Authority meeting on 17 March 2016. Recommendations 1. That, in order to achieve a balanced revenue budget for 2016/17, the Authority agrees the proposals set out in paragraphs 19 to 24 for Option B, which are summarised as follows: A reduction of 13 appliances and associated establishment reductions. An increase to the Fire Rescue Unit establishment of 56 Watch Manager A and 16 Firefighter posts. A one off payment into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund of £3.5m, which will result in an ongoing saving of £0.4m from 2017/18, subject to confirmation from the scheme actuary. A one off investment into a community safety investment reserve of £1.0m, which would be spent by 31 March 2017. 2. That the Authority notes that the final decision on the 2016/17 budget, including the associated establishment changes and the capital programme, will be made by the Authority at its meeting in March 2016. Background 1. The Resources Committee considered the latest Budget Update report (FEP 2551) at its meeting on 14 January. The full decision taken by the Committee at that meeting is set out in the memorandum from that Committee presented separately on this agenda. This supplementary report provides additional information in order to support the Authority’s consideration of both the main budget report and those decisions. 2. The first two parts of the decisions were to note the report and that the provisional grant settlement, combined with the effect of the withdrawal of the threat of strike action, means that the overall savings target required for 2016/17 (subject to confirmation of the final funding from the Mayor) is now reduced by a total of £4.5 million compared to the original target. The remaining four parts of the decision are considered later in this report. 3. The Authority commenced public consultation on proposals to meet the budget gap for 2016/17 on 7 December and the consultation then closed on 1 February 2016. This report considers the results of that consultation and then sets out responses to the key points and themes raised during the consultation. 4. The Mayor published his Draft Consolidated Budget on 19 January 2016, which was considered by the London Assembly on 27 January 2016. This report also sets out the key issues for LFEPA from that Draft Consolidated Budget. The Mayor’s Final Consolidated Budget will then be considered by the London Assembly on 22 February 2016. 5. On 15 June the Mayor issued a direction to LFEPA requiring it to commission a paper on its budget options for 2016/17, that includes a review of the 13 appliances held back from day-to- day deployment as a contingency to attend emergency calls in the event of strike action by the Fire Brigades Union (considered in FEP2445). The December Budget Update report (FEP2520) fulfilled the requirement of that direction. This report provides an update to the options presented in that report. Financial Context 6. The main Budget Update report explains that the Mayor published his budget guidance for 2016/17 on 28 July 2015. This set out proposed funding for LFEPA of £382.4m in 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19, which resulted in a budget gap for LFEPA of £13.2m in 2016/17. This budget gap was then reduced by £1.7m following the decision by the FBU to suspend the threat of strike action until June 2017, to a revised gap of £11.5m 7. As part of the usual budget process, officers then identified departmental savings of £5.1m that further reduced this gap to £6.4m. The December Budget Update report then set out options to close this remaining gap. These options included additional alternate crewing and departmental savings (Option A), or alternatively the permanent removal of the 13 appliances that have been removed from stations for business continuity purposes since August 2013, alongside an increase to the Fire Rescue Unit establishment (Option B). 8. The provisional Local Government finance settlement announced in December 2015 resulted in a further improvement in the forecast position for 2016/17 of £2.8m. This reduced the budget gap to £3.6m. The final grant settlement for LFEPA was announced on 8 February 2016 and confirmed this surplus. The budget process currently assumes that this additional funding of £2.8m will be removed from LFEPA’s budget in 2017/18. This is therefore considered to be a one-off surplus in 2016/17. 9. The full 2016/17 budget will be put before Authority for decision on 17 March 2016. At that meeting the Authority will agree the revenue and capital budgets for 2016/17, along with the detailed savings proposals to be implemented and the resulting establishment changes. The Mayor’s Consolidated Budget for 2016/17 10. The Mayor published his Consultation Budget on 21 December 2015. That budget reflected the budget submission agreed by LFEPA in December. 11. The Mayor published his Draft Consolidated Budget as a result of this consultation on 19 January 2016, which was then considered by the London Assembly on 27 January 2016. Following this the Mayor is due to publish his Final Consolidated Budget on 12 February 2016, which will be considered by the London Assembly on 22 February 2016. 12. The Mayor’s Final Consolidated Budget also reflects the budget submission for LFEPA that was included in the Budget Update report, with two updates to reflect recent changes. The first of these is to reflect the decrease in the budget gap of £1.7m as a result of the withdrawal of the threat of strike action by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The second update states that if no decision is taken by LFEPA to use the additional £2.8m surplus from the provisional grant settlement as part of its 2016/17 budget, then the £2.8m will be transferred into LFEPA’s general reserve in 2016/17. Update on the Financial Position for 2015/16 13. The financial position as at the end of September (FEP2521) reported that the Authority is forecasting to underspend by £6.2m for the 2015/16 financial year. It should be noted that this includes significant one-off underspends, including £3.5m on operational pensions as a result of the implementation of the 2015 Firefighter’s Pension Scheme and £1.2m on unitary charges for the new PFI fire stations. 14. The financial position has continued to be reviewed and it is now expected that there will be further underspending for 2015/16. The additional underspend is largely driven by operational staff vacancies and also reflects the expected decrease in pension costs in 2016/17 that was included in the January Budget Update report (FEP2551). That report stated that the potential impact of this on the 2015/16 forecast was under review and this additional underspending reflects the current position of that review, noting that it does not lead to additional budget reductions for 2016/17. It should be noted that the revised forecast underspend is still subject to further work and an updated position will be included in the report on the financial position as at the end of December, which will be presented to Resources Committee on 10 March 2016. The impact on the reserve position will also be updated at that time. Changes to Option A agreed by Resources Committee 15. The main report sets out in Table 5 that Option A is forecast to deliver savings of £2.8m above the budget gap for 2016/17, following the outcome of the grant settlement for LFEPA. At its meeting on 14 January 2016 the majority of members of the Resources Committee stated that they believed that: operational changes are best introduced, so far as possible, as part of a comprehensive package consequent on the outcome of the full LSP 6 review to take effect in the year 2017/18, and that any operational changes for 2016/17 should therefore be kept to the absolute minimum required to produce a balanced budget; and that the reduced savings target should therefore be primarily applied so as to reduce so far as possible the impact of operational cuts in 2016/17 and that ‘Option A’ should therefore be further adjusted, so as to remove from the alternate crewing proposals the remaining 2 FRUs and 1 of the aerial appliances, (which subject to further officer advice, should be the one stationed at Dagenham on which Havering relies for first aerial attendance); and the balance of any reduced savings requirement should be applied to reducing further the draw on reserves; 16.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • London's Burning: Assessing the Impact of the 2014 Fire Station
    IN BRIEF VISUALISATION London’s burning: Assessing the impact of the 2014 fire station closures What effect have fire station closures had on response times in central London?Benjamin M. Taylor investigates n the face of ongoing austerity To its credit, the LFB collects boroughs can be divided further into measures imposed by the British information on all call-outs – including wards; however, my analysis sought government, the consequences of the type of fire, date, time of day, spatial to understand the effect of the station Icuts to public services are beginning location and response time – which closures at the sub-ward level. to unfold. One of the most contentious allows researchers to analyse the impact Deciding which spatial areas may decisions taken in 2014 related to the that station closures have had. In fact, be at risk of increased response times closure of 10 fire stations and the loss in preparation for the closures, the Open Benjamin Taylor following the closures is not just a of 552 fire-fighters around the central Data Institute used this information to completed his question of producing maps of the London area. These measures were a work out that average response times PhD, “Sequential raw data. The time an engine takes result of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) across London were likely to increase Methodology with to respond to a call depends at what Applications in Sports being tasked with making savings of only marginally, from 5 min 34 s to 5 min Rating” at Lancaster time of day and on which day of the almost £29 million.
    [Show full text]
  • Operational Resilience/Special Operations Group Review
    Report title Operational Resilience/Special Operations Group Review Report to Date Operations DB 29 July 2020 Transformation Directorate 11 August 2020 People Directorate 13 August 2020 Corporate Services DB 18 August 2020 Commissioner’s Board 26 August 2020 Deputy Mayor Fire and Resilience Board 8 September 2020 London Fire Commissioner Report by Report number Assistant Commissioner Control and Mobilising LFC-0406 Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full Summary This report sets out the key findings and subsequent recommendations from the Review of the Operational Resilience and Special Operations Group (OR/SOG) see Appendix 1. Recommendations That the London Fire Commissioner approves: a. The content and findings of the Review (Appendix 1). b. The recommendations of the Review. Background 1. London Fire Brigade (LFB) is one of the largest metropolitan fire and rescue services in the world and operates within a highly complex and challenging environment. The threat that emerged from international and domestic terror following the attacks in 2001 on the World Trade Centre and the subsequent challenges posed by Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA) has meant LFB has needed to ensure it is able to respond to these threats and mitigate their impact. As a result, the OR/SOG Department has provided the capability and expertise to deliver that response. This also included the development of a new tactical advisor role in 2001 with the creation of Interagency Liaison Officers (ILO) now National Interagency Liaison Officers (NILO). The instigation, development and coordination of the NILO role has been a significant achievement for LFB and enjoys substantial support across the fire and rescue sector and with partner agencies.
    [Show full text]
  • LFB Quarterly Performance Report – Quarter 1 2020/21
    Decision title LFB Quarterly Performance Report – Quarter 1 2020/21 Recommendation by Decision Number Assistant Director, Strategy and Risk LFC-0397-D Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full Summary Report LFC-0397 presents the Brigade’s performance against the London Safety Plan as at the end of quarter one 2020/21 (data to the end of 30 June 2020). The report covers performance against budgets, key indicators, risks and projects Decision That the London Fire Commissioner approves report LFC-0937 and Appendix 1 (LFB Quarterly Performance report). Andy Roe This decision was remotely signed London Fire Commissioner Date on Wednesday 03 February Access to Information – Contact Officer Name Steven Adams Telephone 020 8555 1200 Email [email protected] The London Fire Commissioner is the fire and rescue authority for London Report title LLLFBQ uarterlyPerformanceReport –––QQQuarter 111202020 202020 ///222111 Report to Date Commissioner’s Board 29 July 2020 Report by Report number Assistant Director, Strategy and Risk LFC -0397 Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full Summary This paper presents the Brigade’s performance against the London Safety Plan as at the end of quarter one 2020/21 (data to the end of 30 June 2020). This report covers performance against budgets, key indicators, risks and projects. Recommendations That the London Fire Commissioner approves this report and Appendix 1 (LFB Quarterly Performance report) prior to publication. Background 1. This is the quarter one 2020/21 performance report covering the Brigade’s activities in terms of key decisions, financial information, performance against key indicators across the Brigade’s three aims, workforce composition, risks and projects, set out in more detail at Appendix 1.
    [Show full text]
  • The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia
    THE WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA 2015 Churchill Fellowship Report by Ms Bronnie Mackintosh PROJECT: This Churchill Fellowship was to research the recruitment strategies used by overseas fire agencies to increase their numbers of female and ethnically diverse firefighters. The study focuses on the three most widely adopted recruitment strategies: quotas, targeted recruitment and social change programs. DISCLAIMER I understand that the Churchill Trust may publish this report, either in hard copy or on the internet, or both, and consent to such publication. I indemnify the Churchill Trust against loss, costs or damages it may suffer arising out of any claim or proceedings made against the Trust in respect for arising out of the publication of any report submitted to the Trust and which the Trust places on a website for access over the internet. I also warrant that my Final Report is original and does not infringe on copyright of any person, or contain anything which is, or the incorporation of which into the Final Report is, actionable for defamation, a breach of any privacy law or obligation, breach of confidence, contempt of court, passing-off or contravention of any other private right or of any law. Date: 16th April 2017 1 | P a g e Winston Churchill Fellowship Report 2015. Bronnie Mackintosh. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 PROGRAMME 6 JAPAN 9 HONG KONG 17 INDIA 21 UNITED KINGDOM 30 STAFFORDSHIRE 40 CAMBRIDGE 43 FRANCE 44 SWEDEN 46 CANADA 47 LONDON, ONTARIO 47 MONTREAL, QUEBEC 50 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 52 NEW YORK CITY 52 GIRLS FIRE CAMPS 62 LOS ANGELES 66 SAN FRANCISCO 69 ATLANTA 71 CONCLUSIONS 72 RECOMMENDATIONS 73 IMPLEMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION 74 2 | P a g e Winston Churchill Fellowship Report 2015.
    [Show full text]
  • New Dimension— Enhancing the Fire and Rescue Services' Capacity to Respond to Terrorist and Other Large-Scale Incidents
    House of Commons Public Accounts Committee New Dimension— Enhancing the Fire and Rescue Services' capacity to respond to terrorist and other large-scale incidents Tenth Report of Session 2008–09 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 9 February 2009 HC 249 [Incorporating HC 1184–i, Session 2007–08] Published on 12 March 2009 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £0.00 The Public Accounts Committee The Committee of Public Accounts is appointed by the House of Commons to examine “the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit” (Standing Order No 148). Current membership Mr Edward Leigh MP (Conservative, Gainsborough) (Chairman) Mr Richard Bacon MP (Conservative, South Norfolk) Angela Browning MP (Conservative, Tiverton and Honiton) Mr Paul Burstow MP (Liberal Democrat, Sutton and Cheam) Mr Douglas Carswell MP (Conservative, Harwich) Rt Hon David Curry MP (Conservative, Skipton and Ripon) Mr Ian Davidson MP (Labour, Glasgow South West) Angela Eagle MP (Labour, Wallasey) Nigel Griffiths MP (Labour, Edinburgh South) Rt Hon Keith Hill MP (Labour, Streatham) Mr Austin Mitchell MP (Labour, Great Grimsby) Dr John Pugh MP (Liberal Democrat, Southport) Geraldine Smith MP (Labour, Morecombe and Lunesdale) Rt Hon Don Touhig MP (Labour, Islwyn) Rt Hon Alan Williams MP (Labour, Swansea West) Phil Wilson MP (Labour, Sedgefield) The following member was also a member of the committee during the parliament. Mr Philip Dunne MP (Conservative, Ludlow) Powers Powers of the Committee of Public Accounts are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 148.
    [Show full text]
  • LFB Quarterly Performance Report – Quarter 2 2020/21
    Decision title LFB Quarterly Performance Report – Quarter 2 2020/21 Recommendation by Decision Number Assistant Commissioner, Grenfell Tower Investigation and LFC-0431-D Review Team Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full Summary Report LFC-0431 presents the Brigade’s performance against the London Safety Plan as at the end of quarter one 2020/21 (data to the end of 30 September 2020). This report covers performance against budgets, key indicators, risks and projects. Decision That the London Fire Commissioner approves report LFC-0432 and Appendix 1 (LFB Quarterly Performance report) prior to publication. Andy Roe This decision was remotely London Fire Commissioner Date signed on Monday 21 December 2020 Access to Information – Contact Officer Name Steven Adams Telephone 020 8555 1200 Email [email protected] The London Fire Commissioner is the fire and rescue authority for London Report title LFB Quarterly Performance Report – Quarter 2 2020/21 Report to Date Commissioner’s Board 04 November 2020 Corporate Services Directorate Board 10 November 2020 Operational Delivery Directorate Board 19 November 2020 People Services Board 26 November 2020 Deputy Mayor’s Fire & Resilience Board 9 December 2020 Report by Report number Assistant Commissioner, Grenfell Tower Investigation and LFC-0431 Review Team Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full If redacting, give reason: Executive Summary This paper presents the Brigade’s performance against the London Safety Plan as at the end of quarter one 2020/21 (data to the end of 30 September 2020). This report covers performance against budgets, key indicators, risks and projects.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum Vitae of Danny Dorling
    January 2021 1993 to 1996: British Academy Fellow, Department of Geography, Newcastle University 1991 to 1993: Joseph Rowntree Foundation Curriculum Vitae Fellow, Many Departments, Newcastle University 1987 to 1991: Part-Time Researcher/Teacher, Danny Dorling Geography Department, Newcastle University Telephone: +44(0)1865 275986 Other Posts [email protected] skype: danny.dorling 2020-2023 Advisory Board Member: ‘The political economies of school exclusion and their consequences’ (ESRC project ES/S015744/1). Current appointment: Halford Mackinder 2020-Assited with the ‘Time to Care’ Oxfam report. Professor of Geography, School of 2020- Judge for data visualisation competition Geography and the Environment, The Nuffield Trust, the British Medical Journal, the University of Oxford, South Parks Road, British Medical Association and NHS Digital. Oxford, OX1 3QY 2019- Judge for the annual Royal Geographical th school 6 form essay competition. 2019 – UNDP (United Nations Development Other Appointments Programme) Human Development Report reviewer. 2019 – Advisory Broad member: Sheffield Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University Nuffield project on an Atlas of Inequality. Goldsmiths, University of London, 2013-2016. 2019 – Advisory board member - Glasgow Centre for Population Health project on US mortality. Visiting Professor, School of Social and 2019- Editorial Board Member – Bristol University Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK Press, Studies in Social Harm Book Series. 2018 – Member of the Bolton Station Community Adjunct Professor in the Department of Development Partnership. Geography, University of Canterbury, NZ 2018-2022 Director of the Graduate School, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford. 2018 – Member of the USS review working group of the Council of the University of Oxford.
    [Show full text]
  • The National Fire Service: Part 1
    The National Fire Service: part 1 This year sees the 80th anniversary of the formation of the National Fire Service (NFS). That organisation came into being on 18th August 1941 and ceased to exist in England and Wales at 00:01 on 1st April 1948, and in May 1948 in Scotland. Over those six plus years there was one fire service for the whole of Great Britain – from the northernmost of the Shetland Isles to the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly. When war broke out in 1939 it was estimated there were over 1500 fire brigades across Great Britain, though some say the number was higher. This discrepancy serves to underline the fragmentation and lack of standardisation of the pre-war British fire service. In fact, apart from some emergency measures to improve and coordinate fire services in Greater London in response to World War I air raids, successive governments had studiously avoided any involvement with firefighting. It took the threat of another war to create something of a ‘cart-before-the-horse’ situation whereby, in 1937, the government created a national organisation: the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS). This assisted regular fire services in time of war and then, in 1938, finally took a grip on firefighting generally by obliging local government to establish or maintain efficient fire brigades and for those brigades to cooperate. Even so, the fire authorities in England and Wales were district and borough councils, and in Scotland, burgh and county councils, so there was little, if any, scope for reducing the overall number of fire brigades.
    [Show full text]
  • Training Update Report – Q4 2019/20
    Report title Training update report – Q4 2019/20 Report to Date People Directorate Board 27 May 2020 Operational Delivery Directorate Board 3 June 2020 Commissioner’s Board 17 June 2020 Report by Report number Assistant Director, Training and Professional Development LFC-0370x Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full Summary This is the quarterly training update report, which is produced for the Commissioner’s Board (CB), to provide an update on the workings of the Training and Professional Development Department. These activities demonstrate our commitment to deliver the London Fire Brigade (LFB) Transformation Delivery Plan, to respond to the findings of phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the LFB’s HMICFRS inspection report. The key updates are: The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has led to a reduction in the number of training courses that are running. That had an effect on training performance in 2019/20, and has continued to impact training performance in early 2020/21. A report seeking to confirm what constitutes risk critical training is due to be submitted to the People and Operational Delivery Directorate Boards by 31 July 2020, along with a new training policy. The report will also seek to establish clear rules for action to be taken when a member of staff goes “out of ticket” (i.e. that they have not received refresher training within the designated time frame for that particular skill). A second phase of work is then due to commence, to address other skill areas, as well as systems considerations and delegate self- allocation to training courses.
    [Show full text]
  • LFC-0505X Budget 2020-21
    Report title 2021/22 Budget Report to Date Corporate Service’s Board 16 March 2021 Commissioner’s Board 24 March 2021 London Fire Commissioner Report by Report number Assistant Director, Finance LFC-0505x Protective marking: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Publication status: Published in full If redacting, give reason: I agree the recommended decision below. This decison was Andy Roe remotely signed on London Fire Commissioner Date 29 March 2021 Executive Summary This report presents the London Fire Commissioner’s (LFC) final draft revenue and capital budget for 2021/22 for approval. Recommended decisions For the London Fire Commissioner That the London Fire Commissioner agrees that: 1. Subject to the decisions below, a 2021/22 revenue budget of £405.4m be approved, being made up of net expenditure of £363.8m with £8.3m funding from earmarked reserves and £33.3m funding from specific grants; 1 of 87 2. The revenue estimates, as set out in Appendices 1, 3 and 4, showing proposed savings, growth and budget movements, are approved; 3. The movements in reserves, as set out in table 6, are approved; 4. The establishment changes associated with the 2021/22 revenue budget, as set out in Appendices 1, 3 and 4, are approved; 5. The capital programme with gross expenditure in 2021/22 of £17.6m, as set out in Table 7 and confidential Appendix 7, be approved; 6. The capital strategy at Appendix 7 is approved for publication. Introduction and Background 1. This report updates the budget proposals included in the Budget Submission to the Mayor in November 2020 (LFC-0432).
    [Show full text]
  • Broadcast Bulletin Issue Number
    Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin Issue number 267 17 November 2014 1 Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, Issue 267 17 November 2014 Contents Introduction 3 Standards cases In Breach It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief Channel 5, 22 March 2014, 10:30 5 Big Brother Channel 5, 7 August 2014, 12:15 13 The Hotel Inspector Returns Channel 5, 5 July 2014, 10:05 17 Bait Car truTV, 23 August 2014, 15:30 21 Scotland Tonight STV Glasgow, 18 September 2014, 14:58 23 Communal Affairs ATN Bangla, 9 June 2014, 16:50 26 Item for Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf ARY News, 1 to 5 August 2014, various times 31 Broadcast Licence Conditions cases In Breach Broadcasting licensees’ late and non-payment of licence fees 36 Provision of licensed service Castle FM (Leith), 5 September to date 38 Investigations Not in Breach 40 Complaints Assessed, Not Investigated 41 Investigations List 44 2 Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, Issue 267 17 November 2014 Introduction Under the Communications Act 2003 (“the Act”), Ofcom has a duty to set standards for broadcast content as appear to it best calculated to secure the standards objectives1. Ofcom must include these standards in a code or codes. These are listed below. Ofcom also has a duty to secure that every provider of a notifiable On Demand Programme Services (“ODPS”) complies with certain standards requirements as set out in the Act2. The Broadcast Bulletin reports on the outcome of investigations into alleged breaches of those Ofcom codes below, as well as licence conditions with which broadcasters regulated by Ofcom are required to comply.
    [Show full text]
  • Guildhall School Gold Medal 2020 Programme
    Saturday 3 October 2020 5pm Milton Court Concert Hall Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize 2020 Final Round Samuel Frith Ellen Baumring-Gledhill Marlon Barrios Araya George Smith Sasha Canter Viviane Ghiglino Guildhall School of Music & Drama Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation Chairman of the Board of Governors Vivienne Littlechild Principal Lynne Williams AM Director of Guildhall Young Artists and Safeguarding Alison Mears BMus PGCE FGS Head of Junior Guildhall Rosie Whitfield ARCM DipRCM PGCE BIFF Head of Junior Music Courses Nigel Springthorpe PhD BMus FLCM PGCert. RCM PGCE Please visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk Guildhall School is part of Culture Mile: culturemile.london Guildhall School is provided by the City of London Corporation as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation Lutine Prize The Lutine Prize is the Junior Guildhall’s equivalent of the senior school’s Gold Medal competition. Six students are selected from a preliminary round to perform in the final and the winner is given the opportunity to perform a concerto with one of the Junior Guildhall ensembles, in addition to a cash prize. The Lutine Prize was founded in 1982, originally supported by Lloyds of London, who named the competition after their Lutine bell. The bell was formerly rung at the insurers’ offices to announce the loss of a ship or other news of great importance to the underwriters. Previous winners of the Prize include Thomas Ades, Thomas Poster and Annabel Thwaite, and many have gone on to have professional careers in
    [Show full text]