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Arrangements for the Community Alarm Service monitoring at Sheltered Housing Schemes

Meeting: 24/01/2019 - Cabinet (Item 103)

Arrangements for the Community Alarm Service monitoring at Sheltered Housing Schemes

(Report of the Portfolio Holder for Housing Services and Neighbourhoods)

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Minutes:

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.

 

RESOLVED

that Cabinet:

 

 

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

 

 

agreed the action plan arising from the independent review of the Council’s housing sheltered service and detailed within the report

 

 

noted the MHCLG position with regard to sheltered housing.

 

The report contained three further recommendations which remained confidential.

 

(Moved by Councillor M Cook and seconded by Councillor S Doyle)