Issue details
The Council’s financial response to the Corona virus (COVID-19)
This report sets out the first of a number of
actions that are being carried out or are being planned by Tower
Hamlets Council to support the borough through:
• the creation of a Service Investment Fund to pay for
additional pressures caused by the Council’s response to
COVID-19;
• ensuring all new reliefs, discounts, grants and reductions
are applied to all accounts for both residents and businesses
throughout the borough;
• introducing a more flexible approach to income collection
and enforcement to residents, businesses and other customers and
users of council services;
• use existing processes to inform and update residents and
businesses about new and existing reliefs, discounts, grants and
reductions available to them;
• setting up Community Mobilisation arrangements; and,
• changes to cash flow options to ensure current providers
have funds in place to deliver key services.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 03/04/2020
Reason for urgency:
The Council's plans to provide a financial response to Coronavirus have been drafted urgently and could not have been anticipated in advance. Any delay to the implementation of the Council's response would be unacceptable during time of an international emergency and would seriously undermine the social and financial recovery of the Borough and its residents.
Open/Exempt: Open;
Decision due: 8 Apr 20 by Mayor's Executive Decision Making
Lead member: Cabinet Member for Resources and the Voluntary Sector
Lead director: Corporate Director, Resources
Department: Resources
Contact: Kevin Bartle, (Financial Consultant- formerly Interim Corporate Director, Resources & Section 151 Officer) Email: Kevin.Bartle@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Consultation process
N/A
Consultees
N/A
Has an Equality Analysis been carried out and if so the result of this Assessment?: N/A
Agenda items
- 09/04/2020 - Mayor's Executive Decision Making The Council’s financial response to the Corona virus (COVID-19) 09/04/2020
Documents
- The Council’s financial response to the Corona virus (COVID-19)