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Sheltered Housing: Tenant's Activity Pot
Meeting: 27/09/2018 - Grants Determination (Cabinet) Sub-Committee (Item 6)
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Decision:
The Sub-Committee considered the report concerning funding for Sheltered Housing Tenant’s Activity.
The Mayor enquired and the Chair of the GSSC reported that the Sub-Committee welcomed the initiative. They had questions about: how tenants from different housing associations would be able to access the various projects. They also requested that the scheme be evaluated to look at the effectiveness of the scheme. The GSSC endorsed the proposed recommendations.
In responses, it was confirmed that Officers would collect information regarding the social profile of the tenants benefiting from the projects, and would monitor and evaluate the projects on an annual basis. Officers would also work with landlords to encourage them to share information on activities and reach out to the local community to maximise the reach of the activities
The Mayor then invited GDSC Members to comment on the report and they asked questions and noted details about the number of tenants that would benefit from the projects and the support provided to extra care housing. GDSC supported the proposals.
DECISION
1. That the Corporate Director, Health Adults and Community be authorised to make grants to residents in sheltered schemes at a maximum value of £500 per resident per annum in line with the Ageing Well Strategy, the Council’s Tackling Poverty agenda and the Mayor’s commitment to tackle loneliness and isolation.
2. That the Corporate Director, Health Adults and Community be authorised to enter into agreements with the relevant sheltered housing providers who will administer the grants to residents under appropriate terms agreed in consultation with the Head of Legal Services.
Minutes:
The Sub-Committee considered the report concerning funding for Sheltered Housing Tenant’s Activity.
The Mayor enquired and the Chair of the GSSC reported that the Sub-Committee welcomed the initiative. They had questions about: how tenants from different housing associations would be able to access the various projects. They also requested that the scheme be evaluated to look at the effectiveness of the scheme. The GSSC endorsed the proposed recommendations.
In responses, it was confirmed that Officers would collect information regarding the social profile of the tenants benefiting from the projects, and would monitor and evaluate the projects on an annual basis. Officers would also work with landlords to encourage them to share information on activities and reach out to the local community to maximise the reach of the activities
The Mayor then invited GDSC Members to comment on the report and they asked questions and noted details about the number of tenants that would benefit from the projects and the support provided to extra care housing. GDSC supported the proposals.
RESOLVED
1. That the Corporate Director, Health Adults and Community be authorised to make grants to residents in sheltered schemes at a maximum value of £500 per resident per annum in line with the Ageing Well Strategy, the Council’s Tackling Poverty agenda and the Mayor’s commitment to tackle loneliness and isolation.
2. That the Corporate Director, Health Adults and Community be authorised to enter into agreements with the relevant sheltered housing providers who will administer the grants to residents under appropriate terms agreed in consultation with the Head of Legal Services.
Meeting: 20/09/2018 - Grants Scrutiny Sub-Committee (Item 5)
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Minutes:
Mr Warwick Tomsett, Joint Director of Integrated Commissioning informed Members that following a report to Cabinet in March 2018, the borough had adopted an intensive Housing Management Service (IHMS) model for sheltered housing provision. The savings realised from the move have been reinvested to tackle loneliness and isolation and Officers have worked with tenants and sheltered housing landlords to co-produce the Tenant’s Activity Pot (TAP).
Mr Tomsett said the report was seeking authority to grant awards to residents in sheltered schemes at a maximum of £500 per resident per annum in line with the Ageing Well Strategy and the Council’s Tacking Poverty agenda as well as the Mayors commitment to tackle loneliness and isolation.
Members of the Sub-Committee asked questions in relation to the report and noted the following:
· Members of the Sub-Committee were pleased the initiative was tenant-led and asked how the initiative would be communicated to all tenants.
· Members wanted assurances that the activities would be accessible to all tenants and that all sheltered housing residents would be able to exercise their preferences for activities and that there would be flexibility in the range, location and timings of activities.
· Furthermore the Sub-Committee asked that none of the activities provided added to the vulnerabilities of some residents and that this be monitored.
· Members asked if residents could access activities put on by other sheltered housing associations.
· The Sub-Committee asked the project be evaluated after the first year and that this evaluation be made available to the Grants Scrutiny Sub-Committee, in order to gain assurance that the activities being delivered met the various needs of all the residents.
· The Sub-Committee sought clarification on how many residents would benefit from the scheme.
· Overall the Members welcomed the initiative as a positive way to tackle social isolation and loneliness amongst older residents and endorsed the proposed recommendations.
Members of the Sub-Committee AGREED to NOTE and ENDORSE the recommendation to the Grant’s Determination Sub-Committee to:
1. Authorise the Corporate Director, Health Adults and Community to make grants to residents in sheltered schemes at a maximum of £500 per resident per annum in line with the Ageing Well Strategy, the Council’s Tackling Poverty agenda and the Mayor’s commitment to tackle loneliness and isolation.
2. Enter into agreements with the relevant sheltered housing providers who will administer the grants to residents under appropriate terms agreed in consultation with the Head of Legal Services.