Decision details

Acceptance of Home Office Grant to Employ Community Co-ordinator (Counter-extremism)

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Purpose:

Seeking permission to accept a Home Office grant to pay for a counter-extremism Community Co-ordinator Council post for 12 months.

Decision:

Approval of acceptance of the Home Office grant of up to £60,000 for the Community Coordinator post.

Reasons for the decision:

This funding will enable Sheffield to strengthen our work on counter-extremism and add extra capacity to our work on cohesion, migration and partnership working in the City.

Alternative options considered:

We could not accept the offer of funding, not have the post but would not have the extra capacity for any targeted counter-extremism work.

Publication date: 24/03/2017

Date of decision: 23/03/2017

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