Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Executive Director Adults Services, which described the Council’s annual Homelessness Funding Grant Award from Government and allocated spend for 2025/26 to tackle and prevent homelessness.

Government confirmed the allocation of a key element of the overall investment in funding through the Homelessness Prevention Grant, which was available to local authorities in 2025/26 to support and deliver services to prevent and tackle homelessness.  Members were advised that from this funding Halton had been allocated £547,706 for 2025/26.  It was noted that the funding grant allocation would be ring fenced to ensure the Local Authority had the resources to take action to prevent homelessness and utilise the funding to continue to implement the Homelessness Reduction Act.

The proposals for the allocation of the Homelessness Prevention Grant were presented in Appendix 1, Rough Sleeper Initiative Funding Grant in Appendix 1a, Winter Pressures Grant Funding in Appendix 1b, CAB Cost Savings in Appendix 2, Repossession Referrals in Appendix 2a, Repossession Notice Activity in Appendix 2b and case studies were presented in Appendix 3. 

          RESOLVED: That the Board approve the recommendations for expenditure against the grants, as described in Appendices 1 and 3.