As an LA, we have historically struggled to use our full DHP budget, and have underspent in the past.
This year, however, we are getting very low already, and it isn’t even October yet.
Because of this we are reviewing our DHP policy, and we are going to have to make some very tough choices. Some of the groups that we would normally have paid DHPs to are now unlikely to get one. But which groups to we carry on paying, and whom do we now turn down?
Is anyone else going through similar problems at the moment, or has done in the recent past? Has anyone revised their DHP policy because of the extra pressures on the budget caused by the recession?
If anyone would prefer to email me, my address is: sspencer@elmbridge.gov.uk
Many thanks
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