Leeds City Council have been awarded a grant from Public Health England after a successful bid to the Rough Sleeping Grant Programme. The grant is to establish a drug and alcohol street based lifestyle team to provide specialist support to people rough sleeping and recovering from rough sleeping.
Approval is being sought to award a grant to Humankind to set up and deliver the project as part of the Forward Leeds drug and alcohol service.
This is a key decision as expenditure is over £500,000 and is to be awarded as a grant. The grant is being provided by Public Health England from their Rough Sleeping Grant.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Financial Impact>£500K;
Decision status:
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 18/12/2020
Decision due: January 2021 by Director of Public Health
Lead director: Director of Public Health
Department: Public Health
Contact: Barry Ibbetson, Head of Corporate Contact Centre 0113 378 7859 Email: barry.ibbetson@leeds.gov.uk, Ian Street, Commissioning and Contracts Officer Email: ian.street@leeds.gov.uk.
Consultation process
Briefing Exec Member Health Wellbeing and Adults.
Consultees
Exec Member Health Wellbeing and Adults.