Reference: D49891
Decision Maker: Director of Communities, Housing & Environment
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To accept funding to continue the Connecting
Opportunities project to support migrants in Leeds City Region
Grant funding would be received and re-distributed by the Council
to delivery partners to deliver support services for migrants
throughout the Leeds City Region.
Decision:
The Director of Communities and Environment
approved the requests to:
- Accept a grant agreement from the
Community Fund (formerly known as the Big Lottery Fund) to continue
manage the Connecting Opportunities programme of support for
migrants across Leeds City Region.
- Extension and Variation to the
existing partnership agreements with other organisations for
continued local delivery of the Connecting Opportunities programme
in accordance with Contracts Procedure Rule 21.1 (contract
extensions).
- The following delivery partner
organisations whose contracts will be extended and varied are:
- The Children's Society
- Halifax Opportunities Trust
- Horton Housing Support Limited
- Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network
[LASSN]
- Nova Wakefield District Limited
- PATH Yorkshire
- SOLACE
- Touchstone
- WomenCentre
- Enter into agreements with other
organisations that the Head of Migration Yorkshire believes are
required to deliver the Connecting Opportunities programme.
- Enter into such other documents that
the Head of Migration Yorkshire believes are needed to enable Leeds
City Council to deliver the Connecting Opportunities
programme.
Wards Affected: (All Wards);
Other reasons / organisations consulted
Consultation with strategic and delivery
partners and funders
Consultees
Executive Member for Communities
Contact: David Brown, Head of Migration Yorkshire 07891 276062 Email: david.2.brown@migrationyorkshire.org.uk.
Publication date: 12/07/2019
Date of decision: 22/07/2019
Effective from: 30/07/2019
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