Issue - items at meetings - Government Homelessness Grant and Support for Preventative Services

Issue - meetings

Government Homelessness Grant and Support for Preventative Services

 

 

Meeting: 06/04/2011 - Cabinet (Item 158)

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Minutes:

The Cabinet considered a report on progress made on current schemes to prevent and address homelessness within the District funded by grant from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) during 2010/2011.

 

The report also sought approval from Cabinet for the allocation of DCLG grant funding to specific schemes during 2011/2012 which had been recommended by the Bromsgrove Homelessness Strategy Steering Group.

 

RESOLVED:

(a)       that the update on the homelessness prevention and support schemes funded by the DCLG homelessness Grant during 2010/2011 be noted;

(b)       that the use of the DCLG Homelessness Grant for 2011/2012 be approved in respect of the schemes for 2011/2012 recommended by the Bromsgrove Homelessness Strategy Steering Group;

(c)        that the funding from the DCLG Homelessness Grant of a new temporary Private Sector Housing Options part time post be approved for one year at a cost of £10,100, together with the establishment of a fund of £5,000 to offer discretionary Housing Benefit payments to those who have accessed the private rented sector through the Housing Options service and others adversely affected by the Housing Benefit changes; and

(d)       that authority be delegated to the Head of Community Services in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Housing, to allocate any under spend or make further adjustments necessary to ensure full utilisation of grant allocation for 2011/2012 in support of existing or new schemes and to approve expenditure of the Non Tenure Specific Economic Recovery Fund.