Issue - meetings
RELATE funding 2025/6
Meeting: 15/07/2025 - Strategy and Resources Committee (Item 18)
18 Lease Arrangements - RELATE 2025/6 
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This report considers options for future funding arrangements for RELATE Mid and East Surrey for 2025-2027.
Additional documents:
- RELATE funding 2025/6 Appendix 1, item 18
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- RELATE funding 2025/6 Appendix 2 , View reasons restricted (18/3)
Decision:
Following consideration, the Committee resolved with 6 votes for and 1 abstention to:
(1) Agree the funding arrangements for RELATE Mid & East Surrey for 2025-2027 as detailed in Alternative Option 1 as detailed in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.
Minutes:
The Committee received a report considering options for future funding arrangements for RELATE Mid and East Surrey for 2025-2027.
The Head of Property and Regeneration informed the Committee that he had been informed that RELATE Mid and east Surrey had changed its name on 1 July 2025 to Surrey Counselling and Mediation.
The matters that were considered by the Committee in relation to this item following the exclusion of the Press and Public is recorded in a separate (not for publication) restricted minute.
Following consideration, the Committee resolved with 6 votes for and 1 abstention to:
(1) Agree the funding arrangements for RELATE Mid & East Surrey (Surrey Counselling and Mediation) for 2025-2027 as detailed in Alternative Option 1 as detailed in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.
Meeting: 17/06/2025 - Community and Wellbeing Committee (Item 6)
6 RELATE funding 2025/6 PDF 311 KB
This report considers options for future funding arrangements for RELATE Mid and East Surrey for 2025-2027.
Additional documents:
- RELATE funding 2025/6 Appendix 1, item 6
PDF 590 KB
- RELATE funding 2025/6 Appendix 2 , View reasons restricted (6/3)
Decision:
The Committee resolved (6 for, 2 abstaining) to:
(1) Agree to Option 3.
Minutes:
The Committee received a report considering options for future funding arrangements for RELATE Mid and East Surrey for 2025-2027.
The Committee considered the following matters in public:
a) General Clarifications. In response to questions from Members, the Head of Housing and Community confirmed that RELATE, who also operated in Mole Valley and Reigate & Banstead, did not receive subsidised rent from either of those Councils. He stated that RELATE had confirmed that the data they had provided, as seen at appendix 1 to the report, was in respect of Epsom & Ewell residents only.
b) Delay in Receiving Service Data from RELATE. In response to a question from a Member, the Head of Housing and Community suggested that the delay in receiving service data from RELATE was likely on account of a clerical error on their part, as the Council’s original request for the information coincided closely with a change in management within RELATE.
The summary of the Committee’s debate that took part following the exclusion of the Press and Public is recorded in a separate (not for publication) restricted minute.
Following consideration, the Committee resolved (6 for, 2 abstaining) to:
(1) Agree to Option 3.