Decisions

The Council has been successful in a bid to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Rough Sleeper Initiative Grant for Funding of £363,309 for 2018/19; £25,000 of this is to increase the commissioned Rough Sleepers Outreach Service to fund additional outreach work in 2018/19.

On 4 July 2018 the Director of Housing and Neighbourhoods approved the acceptance of this grant from the MHCLG for 2018-19, including the approval to make the £25,000 available to the Housing Independence Service to pay the Outreach Service Provider.

This report seeks approval to vary the current contract for the Rough Sleepers Outreach Service to enable £25,000 of this grant to be passed onto ‘Framework’ the provider of the outreach service.

Variation to the Rough Sleeper Outreach Service Contract to increase the contract value by £25,000 as outlined in the report.

This report seeks approval to extend the Transitional Landlord Service support contract, provided by South Yorkshire Housing Association for a period from 1 December 2017 to 30 November 2019, under the current terms of the contract units to meet resources available and to provide an alternative offer for care leavers who need supported accommodation. The extension in the contract should have been completed in November 2017, however this was paused because the Council wanted to re-look at cost and utilisation of the service. This pause has enabled the Council to negotiate further savings to ensure that it could afford to fund the contract within available resources and to extend the provisions of the contract to meet strategic needs.

That the Transitional Landlord Service (TLS) contract, held by South Yorkshire Housing Association, be extended until 30 November 2019, utilising the ‘plus one’ extension clauses within the contract and varied, as detailed within the report.  

That due to e.on withdrawing from the HNIP project and the project not progressing, the grant be returned to BEIS in its entirety.