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The legal threat is understood to have come from a Rise service user. The committee also received a report which said that a cross-party working group should have been set up in 2018 to oversee the commissioning process – but this never happened. Even if it had been set up, councillors would not have been involved in evaluating the contract bids and, the committee was told, procurement law required councils to select the best tender. The report said: “Awarding public contracts is tightly regulated to ensure all bidders are treated equally and to ensure the process is non-discrimin...

Comments by Conservative councillor Joe Miller were described as “balderdash” at an online meeting yesterday. His comments came as councillors discussed whether to write to the government asking for a “right to food” to be made a legal right. He said Green and Labour councillors should have amended Brighton and Hove City Council’s recent budget if they wanted more money put into supporting those in food poverty. Councillor Miller said he was quoting a volunteer at the Whitehawk Food Bank. He said: “Her view is that some people who use that food bank – and this is pre-C...

Brighton and Hove council tax set to rise to fund adult social care and tackle climate change COUNCIL tax will rise by about 5 per cent, councillors look set to agree. Residents will pay more to help fund a gap in adult social care budgets and invest in tackling climate change. Labour councillors announced they would back the Green proposals at the city council’s budget meeting this evening. LIVE NOW: Councillor Daniel Yates, deputy leader of the Labour group, said: "We are damned if we raise this money but would be condemned if we didn’t and would be failing to address the needs ...

Senior councillors shared their shock when the situation was raised at a budget meeting. And they promised to look into the decision that will lead to Rise being replaced by Victim Support and the social housing provider Stonewater. Rise has run refuge and helpline services in Brighton and Hove for the past 26 years. Domestic abuse survivors put together a website and started a petition which was signed by more than 20,000 people in just six days. Last week, councillors were told in a briefing that the bids to run the domestic violence and abuse support services were evaluated by ...

THE budget black hole created by the response to the coronavirus pandemic has been filled for the time being, senior councillors were told.