Purpose

Usually if you try to rent from a private
landlord the landlord or agency will ask you for a guarantor,
unless you earn more than 4 times the rent per month. The guarantor
is the Landlord’s insurance policy against a tenant’s
default of payment of rent. Often people's parents act as their
guarantor but if young people have spent time in local
authority care this may not be an option for them

Due to the demand on social housing nationally and locally we
needed look at other options, and the private section was an area
in which our care leavers could not access without such a
scheme.

Content

To approve a rent guarantor scheme (further
details available within the attached ODR)