Issue - meetings

Social Impact Bond- Mid Term Update

Meeting: 12/09/2018 - Cabinet (Item 36)

36 Progress Report on Countywide Entrenched Homeless Social Impact Bond ('ACTion Glos') pdf icon PDF 139 KB

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods providing a progress update regarding the new service that seeks to support entrenched rough sleepers or people with repeat interaction with homeless services, and who have complex needs, through means of a Social Impact Bond.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)        the progress made by this new service be welcomed.

 

(2)        authority be delegated to The Corporate Director in consultation with the S151 Officer and Council Solicitor to accept further funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) for an additional funding of up to of £271,980 to work with an additional 16 clients and enter into all necessary legal documentation.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods that provided a progress update regarding the new service that seeks to support entrenched rough sleepers or people with repeat interaction with homeless services, and who have complex needs, through means of a Social Impact Bond.

 

The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods thanked officers and Cabinet colleagues for their work to address the many challenges in this area and noted that the positive progress made had been recognised by the award of additional funding by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.  She further reminded Members that to achieve the desired outcomes in health and well-being working in partnerships and across support systems was essential.  The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy commented that there were no easy solutions to the complex needs of people requiring support but that headway had been made which needed to be maintained.  The Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economy stated that the good work was making a real difference to people’s lives.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)        the progress made by this new service be welcomed.

 

(2)        authority be delegated to The Corporate Director in consultation with the S151 Officer and Council Solicitor to accept further funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) for an additional funding of up to of £271,980 to work with an additional 16 clients and enter into all necessary legal documentation.