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Salford City Council - Record of
Decision
 
I Tracy Kelly, Statutory Deputy City Mayor, in exercise of the
powers contained within the City Council Constitution do hereby approve the recommendations
that:

 
The £4.8m Household
Support Fund for 2025/26 is allocated as follows:
 
·                    
Continued provision of Holiday Food Vouchers to
eligible children at £15 per week for the 13 weeks of school
holidays.  At £15 pw for the full
year this would be a total cost of £3.12m.
 
·                    
Support an additional year of the Winter Support
Payment, at an estimated cost of £500,000
 
·                    
Allocations for the full 12 months to support
Salford Assist - £720,000, alongside core council investment;
Foodbanks and food clubs - £200,000; adult social care -
£50,000; housing benefit support - £140,000, and
£140,000 for support costs. 
 
·                    
£3,000 funding to support care
leavers.

 
The Reasons
are:
 
As part of the Local Government
Finance Settlement for 2025/26 Government have confirmed that HSF
will continue for a further 12 months. 
Salford’s allocation was confirmed on 5 March as £4.8m,
a reduction of £600k on previous years.  Government have confirmed that HSF the primary
objective of this round of HSF is immediate crisis support with the
secondary objective of prevention.  The
balance to be decided based on local priorities. 
 
Salford City Council has a
long-standing commitment to supporting our residents, including
with financial assistance and advice, and through our partnership
work to support residents with the ongoing cost of living
crisis.
 
Proposals for the use of this
funding enable continuation of previous activity to support
residents and will provide ongoing support.  At the same time a prevention model will be
developed aligned to Housing and Community Solutions Transformation
programmes – ensuring residents receive the right support at
the right time, and maximising use of available funding.
 
Options to reduce funding for
some of the schemes within the report or to only allocate funding
for six months were considered. These would though all impact on
the level of support to residents and on the lack of certainty to
those providing support. 
 
Assessment of
Risk: 
Low.
 
The source of
funding is:  Government Grant
– Household Support Fund
 
Legal
Advice obtained: not applicable
 
Financial Advice
obtained: 
Michelle Cowley, Finance
Manager
 
The commentary regarding the
financial implications is covered in the main body of the report
itself.
 
Procurement
Advice obtained: not
applicable
 
HR Advice
obtained:  not applicable
 
Climate Change
Advice obtained: not
applicable
 
The following documents have
been used to assist the decision process:
 
Winter Support Payment –
report to Cabinet, 12 November 2024
Household Support Fund 2024/25,
report to Cabinet 8 August 2024
Household Support Fund 2024/25,
report to Cabinet 11 June 2024
‘Investment options for
Cost of Living support’ report to Cabinet 8 August
2023
 
Contact Officer:        Jacquie Russell, Director
Policy and Performance                   
Telephone number: 0161 793
3577
 
(Please delete from the list
below any which are not relevant.)
 
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The appropriate scrutiny to call-in the decision is
the Overview and Scrutiny Panel         
 
 

Signed:       Tracy Kelly                         
  Dated:       15.05.25
           
Statutory Deputy City Mayor
 

For Democratic
Services use only
 
This decision was published on  15.05.25                                          
This decision will come in force at 4.00
p.m. on 22.05.25                   
                        
unless it is called-in in
accordance with the Decision Making Process Rules.