28 August 2022
Your requests
Please may you provide me with:
- A breakdown of the different mechanisms you have used to distribute the Household Support Fund to vulnerable families, e.g. cash, food parcels, vouchers, investment in existing schemes / services such as food banks (these are examples, not an exhaustive list)
- what amount/proportion of the funds were distributed through each method used?
- have you evaluated the success or benefits of specific methods used to distribute funds and if so, how did you do so, i.e. what Key Performance Indicators do you set?
- have you made decisions yet about disbursement tools for current and future grants and, if so, what mechanisms are you planning to use?
Our response
- Vouchers, applications process, investment in existing schemes and services, cash.
vouchers - £3,298,000
applications process - £666,000
investment in schemes and services - £411,000
cash – £765,000
- Success and benefits have been measured by: Number of residents supported and the demographic of residents supported. Lambeth is expanding evaluation to capture the number of people prevented from being in poverty due to these intervention.
- The breakdown for the current grant is included in the above. Decisions on how to disburse future grants are paused until central government guidance for the Household Support Fund October 2022 – March 2023 is received.