Decision details
Priority Programme Fund - Legal and Advice Service
PDF 118 KBDecision Maker: Cabinet Member - Finance, Corporate Services and Sustainability and Deputy Leader
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To allocate grant funding from the Priority
Programme Fund (PPF) for legal and advice services and renewing
existing grants for one year (2023/24).
Decision:
RESOLVED - To renew the grant agreement for
one year (in 2023/24): this would sustain funding enabling the
Citizen’s Advice to continue to provide services to residents
at a time when demand for advice and support is increasing due to
cost of living increases and their impacts
Reasons for the decision:
Option 1 – Decommissioning: This is not
regarded as a viable option. For Citizen’s Advice this would
represent the loss of their core funding and may result in a
significant reduction in the services they are able to offer and
could result in closure of the service.
Option 2 – Renew the grant agreement for one year (23/24):
This would sustain funding enabling Citizen’s Advice to
continue to provide services to residents at a time when demand for
advice and support is increasing due to cost of living increases
and their impacts.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1
Other reasons / organisations consulted
None.
Contact: Mark Edmondson, Assistant Director - Revenues and Benefits Email: mark.edmondson@oldham.gov.uk Email: mark.edmondson@oldham.gov.uk.
Publication date: 21/04/2023
Date of decision: 11/04/2023
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