Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

The Cabinet Member for Housing introduced the report which explained the powers of applying the test of intentionality.

                        From April 2015 local housing authorities would be able to disregard the assessment of whether an applicant, approaching the authority as homeless, had been responsible for the actions that resulted in the loss of their previous accommodation. 

                        Under regulation 78 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, rather than be under a legal duty to do an assessment, the Council would have the power to decide whether it applied the intentionality test for any category of homeless applicant. 

                        The Welsh Government (WG) had recognised that disregarding the homelessness intentionality test was a significant decision for a local housing authority to take and could have financial implications.  Therefore, it would be prudent for the authority to maintain the use of the homelessness intentionality test.

RESOLVED:

That following implementation of the Housing Act 2014 (Wales), the Authority should still have regard to the homelessness intentionality test and this will be reviewed regularly.