Decision details

The purpose of this report is to seek approval from the Housing and Homelessness Services Portfolio Holder to provide additional funding to New Forest Disability Information Services (NFDIS) to expand the Just Got Home (JGH) Scheme, currently run from Lymington Hospital only, to include Fordingbridge Hospital for a 6-month trial period at a cost of £9,750.
Approval is also sought for a £10,000 annual increase to the current funding that NFDIS receive for the JGH scheme run from Lymington Hospital

On 14 March 2022, Cllr Jill Cleary, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness Services made the following decision:

That an additional £10,000 annually is provided to NFDIS in the form of a grant to expand the Just Got Home Scheme at Lymington Hospital from April 2022. £29,625 will be provided to NFDIS annually.

That £9,750.00 is provided to NFDIS to launch a 6 month trial of the JGH Scheme at Fordingbridge hospital from April 2022.

If the trial is successful a further £9,750 is to be provided to fund the scheme in Fordingbridge for the remaining half of 2022/23.

If the trial is successful £19,500 is to be provided to NFDIS on an annual basis to fund the JGH scheme In Fordingbridge.

Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Grainne O’Rourke) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 21 March 2022.

Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.

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