Issue - meetings

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a)    Cabinet approved the outsourcing of the homelessness reviews function to a suitably qualified person or organisation on a contracted basis;

b)    Cabinet delegated to the Borough Secretary, in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer and the Cabinet Member for Housing and Wellbeing, the authority to award the homelessness reviews contract for a period of 2 years with an option for a third year. 

Councillor Hibbert, as the relevant Cabinet Member, explained that caseloads had risen sharply in the past 18 months and the number of outstanding homeless decisions had increased and therefore Cabinet were being asked to agree to the outsourcing of the homelessness reviews function. He explained that the people they intended to use for this were very experienced and that they would be charging on a case by case basis and noted that this would be better value for money than employing someone permanently.

RESOLVED:

a)    That the outsourcing of the homelessness reviews function to a suitably qualified person or organisation on a contracted basis be approved;

b)    That authority be delegated to the Borough Secretary, in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer and the Cabinet Member for Housing and Wellbeing, to award the homelessness reviews contract for a period of 2 years with an option for a third year.