Chamber and committees

The Housing Options funding will be allocated via hubs of local authorities who will work together, and with others, to progress locally agreed priorities. Each hub will produce an action plan which will consider the key actions required to develop and refocus services around the Housing Options model to the prevention of homelessness. This process will be assisted by the use of peer review/support models, a Housing Options Toolkit and an awareness of local circumstances. It is for local authority partners to agree priorities, however it is envisaged that funding will be used for training and service development.

The Scottish Housing Options funding will be monitored by an evaluation process which will examine the benefits of implementing the Housing Options approach to the prevention of homelessness and how this impacts on progress towards the 2012 homelessness target. A full evaluation strategy is currently being developed.

For each of the last five years Scottish Government has provided funding to Keep Scotland Beautiful''s anti-litter campaign team Keep Scotland Tidy, now funded as part of the zero waste Scotland programme. During this time Keep Scotland Tidy ran a number of anti-litter campaigns designed to raise public awareness of the problem, with the most high profile being the annual National Spring Clean campaign.

The National Spring Clean 2010 campaign was run by Keep Scotland Tidy. In 2009-10 the Scottish Government provided Keep Scotland Tidy''s funding of £553,000.

The provision of a National Spring Clean campaign in 2010 was one of the main objectives/expected outcomes of this funding award.

Scotland''s zero waste plan, launched in June 2010, sets the strategic direction for waste policy for Scotland. Zero Waste Scotland is the Scottish Government''s delivery programme for zero waste. It provides a range of support, campaigns and other interventions to help people and organisations on the journey to zero waste.

The Scottish Government provides funding to the zero waste Scotland litter and flytipping programme which supports local authorities and other stake holders in their role tackling litter in public places.

The Scottish Government is keen to see the number of recycling on the go facilities in public places increase substantially across Scotland. Zero Waste Scotland has been commissioned to produce guidance on recycling on the go, which can turn the problem of litter into a resource for Scotland.

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Of the 15,066 referrals to Stage Four of the Energy Assistance Package in 2009-10, 1,062 households found eligible for Stage Four withdrew before work took place (due to a reporting error by the managing agent the 980 figure given was incorrect). An analysis of the reasons given by the households is provided in the following table.

Not willing/able to pay excess, where cost of work exceeded grant available	16	1.5%
Did not want upheaval	253	23.8%
Illness	26	2.4%
Moving house	49	4.6%
Not interested	504	47.5%
Had arranged for installation to be undertaken by others	93	8.8%
Landlord refused permission	12	1.1%
Property not suitable	54	5.1%
Unable to gain access for survey	10	0.9%
Other	45	4.2%
Total	1,062	100%

 

Three hundred and two households with children received Stage Four measures under the Energy Assistance Package from April 2010 to end June 2010.

9% of households receiving Stage Four measures under the Energy Assistance Package from April 2010 to end June 2010 were families with children.

We do not have this information available at this time.

Of the 15,066 referrals to Stage Four of the Energy Assistance Package in 2009-10, 2,614 households were found not to be eligible at the eligibility survey. An analysis of these households is given in the following table.

Not eligible due to the energy efficiency of the home,	1,804	69.0%
Did not provide evidence of eligibility	536	20.5%
Did not have any of the qualifying benefits	199	7.6%
Not of a qualifying age and had no eligible children	33	1.3%
Had evidence but after checking was deemed insufficient	16	0.6%
Lived in social housing	14	0.5%
Had not lived in the dwelling for 12 months	12	0.5%
Total	2,614	100.0%