Issue - meetings

The Cabinet at its meeting on 16 July 2019 receivede a report on an updated Care Leavers’ Local Offer which included a recommendation to the Assembly seeking an exemption for LBBd Care Leavers resident in the Borough up t5o the age of 25 from paying council tax.

The Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration presented a report outlining the background to this proposal which was in keeping with the Council’s vision of leaving no one behind and embedding the principle of asking as Corporate Parents, ‘would this be good enough for my child’?. She stressed that members had a collective duty to provide the best possible support for the Borough’s looked after young people.

Members welcomed and expressed their support for the proposal, and

Agreed that LBBD Care Leavers resident in the Borough be exempted from council tax up to the age of 25, effective from April 2020.