Decision details

That the Cabinet Member for Health and Communities:

Approves use of Contain Outbreak Management Funding to support food insecurity work across Derbyshire:

£0.100m to Foundation Derbyshire for the purpose of supporting food banks across Derbyshire.

To support food banks to provide emergency food to vulnerable people in need. To improve their nutrition and increase their health and wellbeing resilience to bolster their protection from any future waves of Covid-19.

Do nothing- this would mean that Derbyshire food banks continue to struggle due to the current low levels of donations and difficulties recruiting and retaining volunteers, whilst experiencing high levels of demand from vulnerable populations experiencing food insecurity and limit the ability of the council to increase the resilience of these vulnerable populations to future waves of Covid-19.