Decision details
Cost of Living and Welfare Reform
Decision Maker: Community & Housing Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To update on the impacts of welfare reforms
and the work that is ongoing to mitigate the impacts.
Decision:
(a) That the Committee support the ongoing work to manage the impacts that welfare reform has, and would continue to have, on some of the most vulnerable residents;
(b) That the support measures implemented via Welsh Government to mitigate the cost-of-living crisis be noted; and
(c) That the Committee write to Welsh Government to request that, at a national level, they encourage parents to continue to apply for Free School Meals.
Report author: Karen Powell
Publication date: 19/01/2024
Date of decision: 10/01/2024
Decided at meeting: 10/01/2024 - Community & Housing Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Accompanying Documents:
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