That the Cabinet Member:

a)     Accepts the Crisis and Resilience Fund allocation of £2.817 million from the Department for Work and Pensions for the period 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 and delegates acceptance of future allocations for F/Ys 2027/28 and–2028/29 to the Corporate Director Community Wellbeing;

b)     Approves the proposed local eligibility framework for allocation of the funding, as set out in paragraph 8 of this report;

c)      A digital financial platform to enable the delivery of crisis payments (as set out in para 7), and appendix 1. 

d)     Delegates authority to the Corporate Director Community Wellbeing to take all operational and budgetary decisions in accordance with the approved eligibility framework and the DWP grant conditions