Decision details

Homelessness: Expenditure and Action Plan Update

Decision Maker: Community and Wellbeing Committee

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)          Note the priority action points which have been taken to manage homelessness over the past 6 months.

(2)          Note the use of Homelessness Prevention Grant (HPG) and Homelessness Grant reserves to cover the increase in expenditure, during 2024/25, to enable the Council to meet its duties under the Housing Act 1996 and Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.

(3)          Agree that a further update regarding nightly paid accommodation (NPA) expenditure be provided at the Community & Wellbeing Committee in October 2025.

 

Report author: Arjan de Jong

Publication date: 14/03/2025

Date of decision: 13/03/2025

Decided at meeting: 13/03/2025 - Community and Wellbeing Committee

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