Issue - decisions

Disabled Facilities Grant and the Lifetime Grant

13/10/2009 - Disabled Facilities Grant and the Lifetime Grant

RESOLVED that

 

1)        the contents of the report relating to budget spend for the Disabled Facilities Grant and Lifetime Grant for 2009/10 be noted; and

 

RECOMMENDED that

 

2)         a re-allocation of funding in the sum of £50,000 from the existing Lifetime Grant capital funding for 2009/10, to the Disabled Facilities Grant funding be approved.

 

(Officers undertook to provide a written response to Members in respect of the use, if any, that the Council made of second hand equipment, particularly stairlifts.

 

The Chair proposed that the investigation of possible actions to reduce the Priority waiting list be referred to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.)