Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

Councillor Attridge introduced the Flintshire Supporting People Programme Grant Local Spend Plan and Regional Strategic Plan report which had been developed to align with the priorities laid out within the North Wales Supporting People Regional Strategic Plan.

            Following a strong case being made by local government, he was pleased to report that the grant had been protected for 2018/19.

            The report provided a summary of the pressures on the homeless service and the risk of a growing financial burden for the Council.  Supporting People Services played a key role in contributing to homeless prevention and targeting funding at services that prevented homelessness remained a strategic priority for the Council.

            The Chief Officer (Community and Enterprise) commented on the risk to the revenue budget in future years for the prevention of homelessness due to the budget proposal for 2019/20 showing the Supporting People budget line being reduced to £zero.  The funding that would usually be allocated was being moved to a new budget line called ‘Early Intervention – Prevention and Support Grant’ which merged the budgets for Flying Start, Families First, Communities First Legacy Fund and a new Employability Grant, making the new budget a total of £252m across Wales.  However, that was £13m less that then combined total of those granted in 2018/19.

RESOLVED:

That the Local Spend Plan for 2018/19 and the North Wales Strategic Plan be approved.