Agenda

Members and Officers are invited to make any declaration of pecuniary, personal and/or prejudicial interests that they may have in relation to items on this agenda, and are reminded that they should re-declare their interest before consideration of the items or as soon as the interest becomes apparent.

Members and Officers should make their declaration by stating:

a)             the item they have the interest in

b)             whether it is a pecuniary/personal interest and/or prejudicial interest

c)             the nature of the interest

The Committee will be asked to approve as a correct record the minutes of the Residential and Wellbeing Services Committee held on 20 June 2023.

To receive questions from the public (for a period of up to 15 minutes).

The purpose of this report is to inform Members of the budget process for 2024/25 as required by Part 6, Section 2 of the Council’s Constitution.

The purpose of this report is to apprise the Housing and Wellbeing Committee of its forecast out turn against the 2023/24 budgets, which were approved by Full Council at its meeting of the 9 March 2023.

This report sets out the performance of the Key Performance indicators at Quarter 1 for the period 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023.

This report sets out the performance of housing services at Quarter 1 for the period 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023. This is the first report setting out the new measures that were agreed at committee on 20 June 2023.

This report provides members with an overview of our complaint handling performance in quarter 1 for the period 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023.

This report outlines the urgent requirement to undertake technological upgrade work on the public facing CCTV across Arun to ensure continuity of service and reduce ongoing maintenance and transmission costs.

This report informs Members of the intended change to give the Local Authority the Data Controller responsibility for CCTV (currently with Sussex Police) from 1 April 2025.

To seek Committee approval to proceed with submitting suitable accommodation schemes for funding consideration in accordance with the SHAP grant conditions.

To request the extension of the current Homeless Strategy for one further year from October 2023 to October 2024, whilst a procurement process is undertaken to instruct an author of a new strategy along with relevant consultation period with partners.

To seek approval from Members to proceed with the acquisition of seven additional temporary homes, including approval for the capital funding required to make up the remaining cost after the grant awarded is considered.

The strategy document describes the approach adopted by the Housing Service to deliver its statutory obligations relating the building Health and Safety of its rented property stock.

The work programme for the municipal year 2023/23 is attached for members review and comment.

The Committee is asked to consider passing the following resolution: -

          That under Section 100a (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and accredited representatives of newspapers be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act by virtue of the paragraph specified against the item.

This report seeks Members’ approval to write off outstanding council tax charges which are subject to insolvency action and the total debt is over £5,000 and requires committee authorisation.

This report seeks Members’ approval to write off outstanding business rates charges as the total debt is over £10,000 and requires committee authorisation.