Issue - decisions

Monthly Budget Monitoring- 2021/22 Month 12

 

 

09/11/2022 - Surrey County Council Response to Rising Living Costs: Household Support Fund 3

It was AGREED that:

 

The following allocations would be made, to be funded by Surrey County Council’s allocation of the Household Support Grant:

 

Food vouchers for children entitled to Free School Meals, including Early Years through school holidays 

£2.276 m

Support to care leavers

£0.025 m

Support to children with disabilities

£0.082 m

Support to food banks

£0.2     m

Support to VCF sector

£0.2     m

Enable enhanced offer of Crisis Fund

£0.2     m

Distribute to Borough and District Councils to enable local solutions to meet local requirements

£2.225 m

Contingency (to be reviewed in January 2023)

£0.082 m

 

£5.29  m

 

08/11/2022 - Allocation of emergency funding: Homes for Ukraine

It was AGREED that:

 

Sponsors in Surrey hosting guest/s under the Homes for Ukraine scheme should be offered an additional £250 payment per month between November 2022 and March 2023.  The additional £250 payment will be top sliced from the £10,500 per guest tariff paid from DLUHC.

 

24/06/2022 - Surrey County Council Response to Covid: Household Support Grant

Decision made:

 

It was AGREED that:

 

The following allocations would be made, to be funded by Surrey County Council’s allocation of the Household Support Grant:

 

Food vouchers for children entitled to Free School Meals, including Early Years through school holidays (includes support for care leavers over Christmas period)

£2.2m

Support to pensioners

£1.7m

Support to food banks

£0.2m

Support to VCF sector

£0.2m

Enable enhanced offer of Crisis Fund

£0.2m

Distribute to Borough and District Councils to enable local solutions to meet local requirements

£0.8m

 

£5.3m

 

It should be noted that the issue of food vouchers during the May half term and the payments set out above to food banks and the VCF sector were made under delegations contained in the scheme of delegation, to ensure funds could be distributed as quickly as possible to ensure they reached vulnerable households.