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VOLUME 5 : SCHEME OF ASSISTANCE
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Contents
Chapter 1 Delivering Strategically
Introduction
Planning
Grant
Information, advice and practical assistance
Lending
One Stop Shop
Adaptations
Resources - Private Sector Housing Grant
Consulting, monitoring and evaluating
Chapter 2 Information, Advice and Practical Assistance
Introduction
Information
Information materials
Promoting awareness
Advice
Introduction
The role of a One Stop Shop
Delivery options
Resourcing advice provision
Standards of advice provision
Record keeping
Practical Assistance
Introduction
Care and Repair
Communal works
Chapter 3 Financial Assistance
Introduction
Why the system needs to change
The role of grant
Objectives of financial assistance
Lending
Introduction
Local authority powers
Definitions
Commercial lending
Possible loan products
Repayment charges
Delivering new loan products
Potential delivery vehicles
Proposal for a National Lending Unit
Routes to Financial Assistance
A model framework for deciding routes to assistance
Assessing Financial Assistance
Work to meet the needs of disabled people
House condition works
Test of resources
Terms of grant made by local authority
Administration of grants
Approved expense limits
Chapter 4 Deciding on Criteria for Assistance: the Section
Statement of Assistance
Introduction
Factors Influencing Access to Assistance
Legal provisions
Legal precedent
The need to offer mandatory assistance
Local authority's Local Housing Strategy
Monitoring and evaluation
Local priorities
Ministerial priorities
The needs of owners
The need to assist more people than with grant alone
The need to make better use of resources
A Model Framework for a Section 72 Statement of Assistance
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