Decision details

COVID Local Support Grant (COVID Winter Grant Scheme - extension)

Decision Maker: Director of Neighbourhood Services

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

This report outlines proposed indicative spend of a further extension to the government’s COVID Winter Grant Scheme, renamed the COVID Local Support Scheme (£288,145).

Decision:

That the Director of Neighbourhood Sevices agrees the indicative local allocation of the grant extension as outlined below:

 

Item

Proposed indicative spend

COVID Local Support Grant – small grants programme

100,000

Food for children in need of additional support (May half-term)

56,500

Financial support with energy (fuel) and water bills debt

50,000

Crisis support with emergency call-outs and boiler repairs/replacements

20,000

Crisis support with white goods

15,000

Contingency

20,000

Administration costs

26,645

£288,145

 

Reasons for the decision:

The Grant will help the Council continue its intensive work, in partnership with local agencies, groups and organisations, to support those most vulnerable throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Alternative options considered:

  The option to reject the Grant extension has been discounted, as this would mean that funding available to the Council is not utilised to support vulnerable households.

 

  Different financial allocations to the various projects would not have reflected actual capacity to deliver.

 

Publication date: 20/04/2021

Date of decision: 20/04/2021

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