Decision details

The Executive resolved as follows:

To approve the final report and recommendations resulting from the scrutiny review of the Housing and Homelessness subject to the Cabinet Member’s comments in the report and the additional observations made at the meeting listed below in response to the comments made by the Lead Councillor:

1. In respect of recommendation 3 that a named independent person had already been identified namely Ian Treasure of Fulfilling Lives to lead the Homelessness Support Group. A key aim though remained to avoid the duplication of meetings.
2. In respect of recommendation 6 that it should be noted that the Council adopted the “Everybody In” process rather than utilising the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol. It needed to acknowledge that this would be dependent on funding but an undertaking would be given to bring a report to the Tourism, Economy and Communities Scrutiny Committee as early as possible.
3. In respect of recommendation 9 the Cabinet Member supported the possible use of a mystery shopping exercise and that it could be useful. The Cabinet Member emphasised though that it would form part of a range of monitoring tools.