Decision details

MHCLG Rough Sleeping and Domestic Abuse Grants

Decision Maker: Strategic Director of the Economy Department

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The direct award of four 12-month rough sleeping contracts and one 12-month domestic abuse contract. The contracts will be funded entirely from MHCLG grants.

Decision:

Authority to directly award the following contracts. A waiver of the CSO 13.1 was approved on 11 February 2020 on ground22.3.6that there are circumstances which are genuinely exceptional.

 

Table 2

Service

Provider

Contract Period

Value of direct award

Funding sources

Rough Sleeper Assessment Hub – up to 18 additional emergency beds for rough sleepers

St Mungo’s

1.4.20-31.3.21

£494,154

£408,154 – 2020-21 MHCLG RSI Grant

£86,000 - 2019-20 Controlling Migration Fund

Rough Sleeping Navigators – to provide intensive support to people at risk of rough sleeping

St Mungo’s

1.4.20 – 31.3.21

£158,843

£116,843  - 2020-21 RSI Grant

£42,000 Rapid Rehousing Pathway 2019-20 Grant

Housing First – intensive support for 12 residents with multiple and complex needs

St Mungo’s

1.4.20-31.3.21

£91,016

£91,016 - 2020-21 RSI Grant

Hospital Discharge Service and personal budgets and rent deposits

St Mungo’s

1.1.20-31.3.20

£31,844

£15,000 – Cold Weather/Derogation Fund

£16,884 – Cold Weather/Winter Pressures Fund

Starlight – Gay Men’s Safe House

St Mungo’s

1.4.20-31.3.21

£40,000

£40,000 - Domestic Abuse Fund 2020-21

                                                       TOTAL

£815,857

 

 

Reasons for the decision:

The direct award of the five contracts in Table 2 is required because of the very short timeframe between the notification of the grant and the required mobilization dates. If the services do not start on 1 April 2020 the MHCLG will not permit H&F to use the grant funding for other purposes and we would lose a proportion of the grants.

Alternative options considered:

As described in the report.

Publication date: 07/07/2020

Date of decision: 06/07/2020

Effective from: 10/07/2020

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