Issue - meetings

Report of the Revenues Manager.

The Chief Executive introduced a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, which proposed a new category of council tax exemption for care leavers. He explained that this was being introduced in the whole of Nottinghamshire and that this would apply to people up to the age of 25 who had left the care system. The Revenues Manager explained the logistics of how the policy would be achieved and that cooperation from the County Council and other care providers would be needed to identify care leavers in order to arrange the exemption.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve the Council’s guidance, at Appendix 1 to the report, for determining an application for a reduction in council tax for persons leaving care and living in the Borough of Gedling; and

2)    Delegate to the Director responsible for Revenues and Welfare Support Services the authority to determine applications for discretionary reduction in council tax under section 13A(1)(c) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in relation to persons leaving care and living in the Borough of Gedling in line with the guidance at Appendix 1 to the report.