Issue - meetings

To consider providing the Home Support Service to all who have a support need, regardless of tenure.

(Report attached)

Members considered a report on extending the Home Support Service to non Council tenants who would not be eligible for funding through the Supporting People programme and who could afford to pay for a service.

Officers reported that provision of a service would have to be on a cost-recovery basis and an hourly rate of £13.22 had been proposed for the service.

Officers confirmed that the current proposal did not anticipate any increase in the number of staff required to provide the service.

RESOLVED that

1)        the Home Support Service be extended to the private sector within current capacity;

2)                 an hourly rate of £13.22 be introduced to pay for the Home Support Service; and

3)                 any proposal to increase staffing or the capacity of the service be brought back before the Executive Committee with a full Business Case.