On 18 March
2025 Cabinet:-
(i)
Accepted the 2025/26 allocation of Household
Support Funding which is £22,543,995.72 (for brevity’s sake, this has been
rounded to £22.5m in the rest of the report);
(ii)
Approved delivery and governance arrangements
for 2025/26;
(iii)
Approved that the fund continues to be delivered
by the Cost-of-Living programme through the established Strategic Response
Group. This is in consultation with the Deputy Leader, who is the Cabinet
Member responsible for the Cost-of-Living programme;
(iv)
Reconfirmed that the Executive Director of
Corporate Services as the Chair of the Strategic Response Group will be the
Senior Responsible Officer (SRO);
(v)
Approved the broad indicative spend on
disbursements set out in Appendix 2 to the report;
(vi)
Delegated relevant decisions, including any
change in the Chair of the SRG, and detailed decisions on spending, to the
Strategic Response Group in consultation with the Deputy Leader;
(vii)
Noted these decisions will continue to be
formally recorded and shared on CMIS through an established Officer Delegated
Decision form. This form is signed off by the SRO in consultation with the
Council’s business partners including the S151 officer;
(viii) Approved
that all procurement decisions shall be delegated to the Chair of the Strategic
Response Group and the Section 151 officer, in consultation with the Director
of Commercial and Procurement, and the appropriate Cabinet Members; and
(ix) Noted the 7 recommendations from the Corporate and
Finance Overview and Scrutiny and refers these to the Strategic Response Group
to respond.
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