Council confirms £4m value of dwelling help | EUROtoday

Rotherham Council has confirmed the way it will spend greater than £4.3m in authorities funding to supply monetary help to individuals most in want.

At a cupboard assembly on Monday, councillors accepted a spending plan for the newest allocation of the Household Support Fund (HSF).

The fund – £4.387m for the 2025/26 monetary yr – shall be used to assist residents with meals, for vitality grants, council tax reduction and help for care leavers and different weak teams.

The largest portion of the funding – £2.687m – shall be spent on grocery store vouchers for youngsters eligible at no cost faculty meals to assist households for 13 weeks of faculty holidays as much as and together with Easter 2026.

Families of youngsters in receipt of free faculty meals will obtain a grocery store voucher value £15 per week, the Local Democracy Reporting Service mentioned.

During the assembly, Councillor Victoria Cusworth mentioned: “It is a real peace of mind for parents, because they don’t have any more money in the school holidays than they have when the children are in school.”

The council can even allocate £950,000 to prime up native council tax help, which is able to cut back payments for greater than 14,000 low-income households.

Half one million kilos will fund the council’s vitality disaster help scheme, providing one-off £250 vitality grants to greater than 2,000 households, and £90,000 shall be used to help younger care leavers with the prices of meals and vitality.

An additional £60,000 shall be spent on serving to native voluntary and group teams to distribute meals hampers and help over Christmas and New Year, and £100,000 will go in the direction of distributing family necessities to 4,000 households by way of meals banks, social supermarkets, and group programmes.