To consider virement proposals from within the base budget 2005/06, to meet anticipated additional costs arising from increased demand for homelessness provision.

That

(a)               £300,000 be vired from the Environment Budget to the Homelessness Budget; and

(b)              a Comprehensive Improvement Plan for Homelessness, including short and long-term solutions be drafted and submitted to Cabinet in July.

The budget provision for Homelessness is under extreme pressure in terms of meeting statutory provision and will overspend in the event that additional resources are not identified.

Use of reserves.