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Move-on Plans for Homeless People Accommodated During the Pandemic

Meeting: 20/07/2020 - Council (Item 22)

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Report of Assistant Director, Housing and Social Care Commissioning

 

Purpose of Report

 

The purpose of the report is to outline our plans for helping people accommodated in hotels during the pandemic to move on to settled or interim accommodation and to recommend to Council that budget provision be made to cover these costs.

 

Recommendations

 

The meeting is recommended to:

 

1.1     Make budget provision of £150,000 in 2020/21 to cover the cost of supporting homeless people to move-on from emergency accommodation post-pandemic, should alternative funding be unavailable.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Resolved

 

(1)           That budget provision of £150,000 in 2020/21 be agreed to cover the cost of supporting homeless people to move-on from emergency accommodation post-pandemic, should alternative funding be unavailable.

Minutes:

The Assistant Director, Housing and Social Care Commissioning submitted a report to outline the council’s plans for helping people accommodated in hotels during the pandemic to move on to settled or interim accommodation and to seek agreement that budget provision be made to cover these costs.

 

Resolved

 

(1)           That budget provision of £150,000 in 2020/21 be agreed to cover the cost of supporting homeless people to move-on from emergency accommodation post-pandemic, should alternative funding be unavailable.