To agree Cost of Living Plan and a response to the Overview & Scrutiny recommendations

It was RESOLVED: -

1.1          Agree the 5 Point Plan attached at Appendix One.

1.2          Delegate to the Assistant Director for Communities & Wellbeing in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Communities to keep this Plan under review and to update this in response to emerging need.

REASON FOR DECISION

 Provides assurance and confidence, ensuring that well established systems intra-connect to respond to the emerging needs of people through effective co-ordination and service delivery. The plan includes a range of measures that focus on providing advice and support, maintaining people’s good health, building on the investments the Council has already made since the launch of the respective Communities and Wellbeing strategies and bringing forward an initial suite of interventions that will help improve the system long term, including the appointment of a Cost-of-Living Co-ordinator.

Alternative Options Considered and Rejected:

2.1   To rely on just Government support and co-ordinate that activity and hope people can find their own solutions.

2.2   To pull together a bespoke plan that will provide residents and our workforce with assurance and confidence that they are not alone and that the District Council will utilise all levers available to connect systems to support people with advice and support on the cost of living issues. Alongside this, recognising that key to any recovery related to the emerging crisis is to maintain wellbeing under the principles of prevention, empowerment, self-enablement and activities that build community resilience, so that people at a locality level can support each other too.

Any Declarations of Interests Declared: None

Any Dispensation Granted: None