Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
Currently the community alarm monitoring for
Sheltered Housing is delivered by WELbeing. This contract is set to
expire March 2019 and details outlined set out the arrangements for
continued service provision.
Decisions:
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Report of the Portfolio Holder for Housing
Services and Neighbourhoods which detailed:
- Ministry Housing Communities Local
Government (MHCLG) & Department for Works (DWP) formal response
to the October 2017 national consultations on future funding for
supported and sheltered housing; and
- The arrangements for the
Council’s sheltered housing’s 24hr community lifeline
alarm service now that the Government had announced its future
funding plans for sheltered housing.
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RESOLVED
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that Cabinet:
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agreed to procure the Council’s
community lifeline alarm service in compliance with the
Council’s financial regulation & guidance policy, further
to the Cabinet decision in July 2018 to re-procure the service from
January 2019
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agreed the action plan arising from the
independent review of the Council’s housing sheltered service
and detailed within the report
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noted the MHCLG
position with regard to sheltered housing.
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The report contained three further
recommendations which remained confidential.
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(Moved by
Councillor M Cook and seconded by Councillor S Doyle)
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Report author: Tina Mustafa
Publication date: 04/07/2019
Date of decision: 24/01/2019
Decided at meeting: 24/01/2019 - Cabinet
Accompanying Documents:
