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Social Fund Transition: Local Support to Replace Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for Living Expenses

 

 

Meeting: 16/10/2012 - Cabinet (Item 55)

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Report of the Cabinet Member for Communities, seeking approval to accept the transfer of funding from central Government to Southampton City Council for local support to replace discretionary payments from the Social Fund, attached.

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Minutes:

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 8770)

 

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Communitites, Cabinet agreed the following:

 

(i)  To note the letter from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about the abolition of the Social Fund attached at Appendix 1 and that the Council’s financial settlement will include an un-ringfenced element for local welfare provision which is not guaranteed after 2014/15.

(ii)  To consider the work of the Scrutiny Inquiry on Welfare Reforms and multiagency local assessment on the impact of the Welfare Reforms on local residents and services in developing a way forward.

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Director for Environment and Economy, following consultation with Cabinet Member for Communities and Cabinet Member for Resources, to develop and implement a sustainable and holistic way forward that enables vulnerable residents to become more self reliant in the future.