Decision details
Home For Ukraine – budget update
Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Place
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
Agreed budget provision as outlined in Option
1 below and within the attached report.
Options Considered:
Option 1:
Staffing
Refugee resettlement
Supervisor 0.5
Refugee resettlement worker 1.5
Refugee resettlement coordinator 0.5
YorHome development worker refugees 0.5
Local area coordinator 0.5
Tenancy sustainment officer temporary accommodation and
traveler sites 1
+ Grant funding for organisations £90k
Total cost £192,701.25
Option 2:
Staffing
No further staffing and remove the grant funding pot.
Total cost £0
Option 2 results in a larger underspend which could be used to fund
wider council services, however it also leaves the council in a
vulnerable position where it is unlikely that adequate support will
be offered to Ukrainian refugees in 2025-6 as well as those
approaching housing and homeless services after receiving positive
asylum decisions. It is unlikely further government funding will be
made available for those who have already arrived.
In addition option 2 does not help in meeting the wider support and
tenancy sustainment needs of customers in temporary accommodation
and traveler sites or the ongoing funding needs of LACs
Options Rejected:
Option 2 is rejected due to the risk that this
will lead to an increase in homeless presentations, poorer outcomes
for refugees/asylum seekers and reputational damage to the council.
Although the short term savings are greater it is likely that in
the medium term this would lead to increased costs to the council
through the provision of more expensive services.
Publication date: 03/05/2024
Date of decision: 01/05/2024
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