Portfolio Holder Decisions

The purpose of this report is to seek approval from the Housing and Homelessness Portfolio Holder to provide additional funding to New Forest Disability Information Services (NFDIS) to cover the shortfall in costs for them to provide the Just Got Home and Independence Matters schemes.

Approval is also sought for an additional £17,660 for the financial year 2024/25.

On 8 July 2024, Cllr Steve Davies, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness made the following decision:

That an additional £17,660 is provided to NFDIS in the form of a grant to continue with the Just Got Home Scheme at Lymington and Romsey Hospital for the financial year 2024/25.

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 (Tanya Coulter) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 15 July 2024.

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

The Local Authority Productivity Plan 2024 (The Plan) provides a summary of the following key areas and outlines how the council:

a.has transformed the way that services are
designed and delivered to make better use of
resources

b.plans to take advantage of technology and make
better use of data to improve decision making,
service design and use of resources; and

c.plans to reduce wasteful spend within the
organisation and systems.

The Plan also describes any barriers that are preventing progress that The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) could help to reduce or remove.

On Wednesday 3 July 2024, Cllr Jill Cleary, Leader and Cllr Jeremy Heron the Portfolio Holder for Finance and Corporate made the following decision:

That It is recommended that the Portfolio Holders:

a.note the contents of the Local Authority Productivity Plan 2024
(The Plan); and

b.approve The Plan for submission to the Department of Levelling
Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).

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 (Tanya Coulter) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 10 July 2024.

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