P-04-643 Save Croeserw Flying Start / P-04-645 Save Glyncorrwg Flying Start - Correspondence from Action for Children to the Chair, 19.08.15

Dear Mr Powell

Further to your letter to me dated 6th August 2015, please accept my apologies for the delay in responding but I have been absent from work on sick leave.

To enable Action for Children to continue the above services we would need to cover a shortfall of approximately £12-20,000. The shortfall is dependent on the number of children we have in each group as this is what determines the level of staff This amount is not to cover our management fee, but day to day running costs of the service.

Our staff are currently under notice of redundancy and are due to receive their redundancy payments next week. If a decision was made to pay this shortfall was agreed we would need to be informed of this without delay in order for us to stop the redundancy proceedings.

Yours sincerely

Jane Weeks

Operational Director of Children's Services