Report: Brighton & Hove’s response to refugees and asylum seekers

 

APPENDIX ONE – detailed breakdown of Homes for Ukraine Spend to date 22/8/2022

 

Recipient Service/organisation

Funding spent or allocated

£

Explanation 

 

Per head payments to guests and property check costs

 

Post office deposit 

70,000 

This enables guests to pick up their £200 per head initial welcome payments from the Post Office which is a convenient and flexible way of getting these funds to them quickly

Post Office administration fee  

1,500 

Property visits

4,000

 

DBS reimbursement

5,000

To be paid to hosts if required

 

Brighton & Hove City Council staffing and spending directly through council services

 

Ukrainian Programme Co-ordinator post 

54,415 

Postholder due to start September 2022

Ukrainian Programme part-time administrator 

13,830 

 

Finance team

50,000 

Staffing costs

Ethnic Minority Achievement Service

87,398 

Ukrainian speaking staff to work with the newly arriving children in schools and their families

Home to School Transport  

360,000 

Contingency fund set aside for this purpose

Homelessness Prevention 

120,000 

Staffing costs

Homelessness Prevention

100,000 

Flexible fund to be used on a case by case basis to prevent homelessness and facilitate move on to private rental sector.

Front Door for Families 

30,350 

Staffing costs

Integrated Team for Families

43,194 

Family coach to work with the most complex cases

Adult Education hub

40,000 

Staffing costs - development of the council’s adult education offer, especially English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) 

Community Hub

275,000 

Staffing costs of the Ukrainian.Support  helpline

Libraries 

6,000 

Adult and Children’s stock – digital and hard copy; 

Communications; support visits/tours/coffee mornings; activities; workshops. 

 

Funding to Third Sector

 

Trust for Developing Communities

50,000 

Funds to deliver community development support to Ukrainian community group and to provide bilingual employability support through the pre-existing Multicultural Employability Support Hub.

Midsummer ‘Kupala night’ community celebrations

750

 

Together Co and Sussex Interpreting Services

51,144 

Social Prescribing Plus (bilingual link workers and buddying scheme) and Language support –interpreting and translation outside of existing funding arrangements 

Hummingbird young refugees projects 

 

31,400 

Increased capacity for the Global Social Club for young refugees

Chamber of Commerce

4,000 

Job Matching

Network of International Women

 

20,000 

Drop in sessions at the All Saints Church June – December 2022

Brighton swimming school

10,000

Swimming lessons for children

Cumulative TOTAL allocated so far 22/8/22

1,427,981

 

Income

2,835,000 

First quarter claim to DLUHC 13th June  for 270 guests

Funds currently remaining unallocated

1,407,019