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Declarations of Interest To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest.
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Public Speaking Time/Open Session In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relating to the work of the body in question. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.
Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.
Minutes: There were no members of the public present.
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Supporting People Short Term Services To consider a report on the re-modelling of Supporting People Services Minutes: The Cabinet Member received a report on the re-modelling of Supporting People Services.
Supporting People short tem services were floating (visiting) support and hostel type services for vulnerable people who needed specialised short term support, either because they were homeless and/or because they need help to develop the basic skills needed to move forward to live independently.
Many of these services support the Council in meeting its statutory duties under various Housing Acts to accommodate homeless people.
A key aspect of the replacement services was a requirement for providers to actively work to prevent homelessness and also to work with the private sector more closely in order to accommodate people in housing need.
The services in Cheshire East had remained largely unchanged since the introduction of the Supporting People funding framework in April 2003.
Following a strategic review of these services disparities had been identified between the need and current provision. In practice this meant that some services were currently only available in some parts of the Borough and not in others.
The remodelling and re-procurement of short term Supporting People services followed a consultation exercise involving a series of meetings with service users, stakeholders and existing providers.
RESOLVED: That
(1) the work undertaken to re-model supporting people services be endorsed and in doing so provides Member level approval for the Council to enter into formal contract agreements.
(2) the intention to seek new providers in time for service implementation on 1 April 2013 be noted.
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