Issue - meetings

Cabinet

(a)          approved the proposed changes to the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme Grant criteria and guidance notes, as set out at Appendix A to the report from the Head of Sustainable Communities and Wellbeing; and

(b)          requested the Grants Advisory Committee to carry out a further review of the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme, in consultation with the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance, to explore options regarding access to the Scheme throughout South Cambridgeshire, and consider the implications for the Council’s budget from 2020-21 onwards.

This decision was first published on Friday 9 November and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Friday 16 November.

Cabinet

(a)             approved the proposed changes to the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme Grant criteria and guidance notes, as set out at Appendix A to the report from the Head of Sustainable Communities and Wellbeing; and

(b)             requested the Grants Advisory Committee to carry out a further review of the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme, in consultation with the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance, to explore options regarding access to the Scheme throughout South Cambridgeshire, and consider the implications for the Council’s budget from 2020-21 onwards.

Cabinet considered a report on the Grants Advisory Committee’s proposed amendments to the criteria and guidance notes for the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme Grants.

The Leader and Lead Cabinet Member for Finance emphasised their ambition that the Scheme should be made more widely available throughout the District to achieve greater fairness and more effective use of the available funds.

The Scrutiny and Overview Committee had not commented on this item.

In response to a question from Councillor Peter Topping, the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance clarified that the purpose of the Grants Advisory Committee’s first review of the Scheme had been to consider the current situation.

Cabinet

(a)             approved the proposed changes to the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme Grant criteria and guidance notes, as set out at Appendix A to the report from the Head of Sustainable Communities and Wellbeing; and

(b)             instructed the Grants Advisory Committee to carry out a further review of the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme, in consultation with the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance, to explore options for increasing access to the Scheme throughout South Cambridgeshire, and consider the implications for the Council’s budget from 2020-21 onwards.

The Head of Sustainable Communities and Wellbeing and Chairman of the Grants Advisory Committee presented the report which set out minor changes to the Mobile and Community Warden Scheme Grants for 2019/20, as recommended by the Grants Advisory Committee.

It was suggested that applicants be made aware of the campaign to end loneliness and describe how their scheme contributed to this.

Members supported the scheme as it would help prevent hospital admissions.

The committee was informed that the Council was reviewing the emerging housing strategy and was mindful of solutions to prevent loneliness. More modern solutions to prevent loneliness would be considered.

The Scrutiny and Overview Committee noted the report.