Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Children, Education and Young People’s Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/268

Contact: Caroline Kelly, Lead Commissioner – Live Well (Caroline.Kelly@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Children’s Services (CMDCEYPS7).

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Acknowledge the Council’s position on the application to the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC) for the Supported Housing Accommodation Programme (SHAP) for Young People aged 18-25 at Risk of Homelessness, and reasons for withdrawing the service following the key decision paper on 10^th July 2024.

The Chair remarked that this whole situation is unfortunate and frustrating because it would have been nice to provide the service to the young people.

The Chair asked officers to stay in contract with potential providers of such a service and thanked the team for their efforts.

The Cabinet Member for Children, Education & Young People's Services APPROVED the following as advertised:

a)    To acknowledge the Council’s position on the application to the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC) for the Supported Housing Accommodation Programme (SHAP) for Young People aged 18-25 at Risk of Homelessness, and reasons for withdrawing the service following the key decision paper on 10th July 2024.