Issue - meetings

This report provides Members with background information on the Council’s Disabled Facilities Grants programme and the wider Better Care Fund. Options for inclusion in the review of the service are presented for consideration.

The report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health provided background information on the Borough Council’s Disabled Facilities Grants programme and the wider Better Care Fund.  

Options for inclusion in the review of the service were also set out for consideration.  Further information on whether cost recovery of grants could be applied to housing associations, more detail on the specific areas of the discretionary and mandatory disabled facilities grants and more detail from Kent County Council regarding ‘top slicing’ were also identified for inclusion in the review.  It was hoped that this further information would provide better context for the benefit of decision making.

Members suggested that representatives from the West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the Peabody Home Improvement Agency, Clarion Housing Group and Age UK should be invited to the next meeting of the Committee to participate in the discussion.

RESOLVED:  That:

(1)    the content of the report be noted;  and

(2)     a further report be submitted to the meeting of the Committee on 21 January 2020 regarding the options identified in section 1.10 of the report, and including the additional options identified by the Committee (summarised above).