Decision Maker: Executive Member (Homes and Housing)
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Recommendations approved.
Reasons for recommendations
The Home Office’s policies and procedures associated with asylum seeker dispersal are constantly changing. As a consequence, so are the support needs of asylum seekers and the pressures on local services. The above recommendations advise that a proportion of the funding be used to cover council costs incurred since 2021 and that any remaining funding be used over subsequent years to mitigate the impacts of asylum dispersal.
Other options considered and rejected
To return the funding to the Home Office and not use it to support asylum seekers dispersed in Chorley or alleviate pressures on local services.
Publication date: 28/06/2023
Date of decision: 28/06/2023
Effective from: 06/07/2023
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