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:
To allocate grant funding for legal and advice
services, renewing the
existing grant for one year (25/26)
Reasons for the decision:
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.
Alternative options considered:
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.
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: 18/08/2025
Date of decision: 11/08/2025
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