EE119 - Reduction of Voluntary Sector Grant payments for Homelessness service

Overview

Outline of Proposal

Reduce Voluntary Sector Grant funding for Homelessness services (these include Petrus Community, Brentwood (Middleton Day Centre) and Sanctuary Trust).

General Impact

This will contribute to the Councils need to achieve significant savings due to reduction in funding from central Government.

Impact on Service Users

This is likely to affect directly mainly single people that are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and some families that access the Middleton Food bank. It is likely to affect persons sleeping rough or at risk of sleeping rough.

Savings Total:  £30,000 on-going saving in 2016/17

You can find the full proposal document, which includes the Equality Impact Assessment, below in the related documents section.