Emergency Welfare Scheme: Oxfordshire Crisis Fund
What the buyer wrote
It is well understood that the availability of emergency welfare funds, designed to support low-income households with urgent and unforeseen needs, can help prevent immediate crisis turning into long-term deprivation. Unlike the majority of upper tier authorities, Oxfordshire County Council (“the Council”) currently has no business-as-usual crisis fund. While specific funding is available in some local areas (for example from Town and Parish Councils) and for specific groups, there is no equivalent fund open to all eligible residents across the County. This leaves a gap for ‘last-resort’ support in the Oxfordshire system. The Government has increasingly adopted an expectation that local deli…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Emergency Welfare Scheme: Oxfordshire Crisis Fund
- How they are buying
- Advertised, shortlist firstSuppliers applied to be considered, and the buyer picked who went on to bid.
- Type
- services
- Where
- in the South East
- Kind of work
- Software development, Management consultancy
Who the buyer named
Mr Alex White was the named contact on this notice.