Decision details

A request to access grant funding, given to the Council, to use to help prevent homelessness and to help set up an initiative to help increase the number of deposit schemes in the private sector. A request to access grant funding, given to the Council, to use to help prevent homelessness and to help set up an initiative to help increase the number of deposit schemes in the private sector.

1.               That Cabinet approve a drawdown of £50K from the Homelessness Prevention Fund to fund the initiatives set out in Section 2 of this report.

2.               That Cabinet also approve a drawdown of £45k from the Homelessness Prevention Fund to fund two posts in the team (Private Sector Housing Partnership Officer and Lead Officer Private Sector Housing) plus training for officers, in order to ensure that the Council has the resources needed to carry out the initiatives set out in Section 2 of this report.