Issue - meetings

Cost of Living Action Plan - Update

Meeting: 24/01/2024 - Chorley Liaison (Item 23)

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To receive and consider the report of the Director of Communities.   

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Minutes:

The Director of Communities, Jennifer Mullin, presented the report which provided an update on the delivery of the cost of living action plan.

 

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent financial pressures impacting upon an increasingly wide proportion of the population, the Communities team recognised the necessity to provide cost of living support to residents, and work was done to formalise this approach by creating a comprehensive Cost of Living Action Plan 2022.  Delivery of the cost of living action plan was then added as a Corporate Priority for 2023/24.

 

The work included distributing Household Support Grant, communicating the support available, Holiday Activity and Food programme, Food Club network, Affordable Warmth Grant, Uniform Swap scheme and much more.

 

The Liaison congratulated the council on their work in this area. 

 

Members noted that future collaboration could take place with partners such as Lancashire Adult Learning.  The funding for the initiatives had come from the DWP via LCC.  Any funding in the pot would be spent. 

 

The report was noted.