Decision details
Household Support Fund from 1 April 2022 (WL)
Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Adult Services and Council House Building
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To delegate responsibility to the S151
Officer, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Economic
Development and Resources, on how the Household Support Fund for
2022 and subsequent periods should be allocated.
Decision:
The Cabinet Member agrees to delegate responsibility for decisions on how the Council’s Household Support Fund grant allocation should be used, to the S151 Officer, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Resources, including subsequent iterations of the scheme and similar grants.
Reasons for the decision:
Due to the amount of the funding allocated, the time constraints and the scope for providing different forms of help and support to residents inneed, decisionson howthe grantfunding, andsubsequent iterations of the grant should be used must be delegated to the S151 Officer in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Resources. Practical decisions on the amount of support provided to individual residents will be delegated to council officers, and the CabinetMember forEconomic Developmentand Resourceswill notbe involved in any decisions at this level.
Alternative options considered:
None.
Publication date: 21/07/2022
Date of decision: 20/07/2022
Effective from: 29/07/2022
Accompanying Documents:
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