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Nelson Trust Vulnerable Women and Complex Needs Project

Meeting: 13/01/2021 - Cabinet (Item 73)

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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods seeking Members tonote progress of this project benefiting a cohort of vulnerable women with complex needs in Gloucester, and to approve a 12 months contract extension funded from existing budgets.

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)  the success and impact of this co-commissioned project be noted

 

(2)  a contract extension with the County Council of 12 months be approved.

 

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods that sought Members to note progress of this project benefiting a cohort of vulnerable women with complex needs in Gloucester, and to approve a 12 months contract extension funded from existing budgets.

 

The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods highlighted some of the serious issues vulnerable women and their children often face and that there had been a history of the support they needed having slipped away between the responsibilities of different organisations.  She commented that this project had brought partners together to put these women first transforming lives and thanked officers and commissioning partners for having done so.  The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods urged that this partnership and people-centred approach to working that she had long championed be expanded and continued in future so that other groups receive better outcomes. 

 

The Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources reminded Members of additional challenges brought by COVID-19 at the current time especially in the stability of household finances and domestic violence.  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure informed Members how impressed he had been when he had occasion to meet people involved with the project at the Nelson Trust.  The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy emphasised the importance of supporting the project to make the women’s lives better given the rates of success reported so far (3.4).  He reiterated how joint working with partner organisations, including in this case health trusts, was the way forward to make positive changes for people.  The Cabinet Member for Economic Recovery and Growth expressed her own admiration of the project and gratitude towards its partners, officers and the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods who had driven it forward.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)  the success and impact of this co-commissioned project be noted

 

(2)  a contract extension with the County Council of 12 months be approved.