- Furniture; rugs / carpet; white goods
- Essential household equipment
- Gas / electricity
- Rent in advance (only when all other options for rent in advance have been requested)
- Removal expenses
- Food deliveries, supermarket vouchers
- Cash when necessary
- The Children’s Fund can also provide clothes
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Be resident in Gloucestershire,
Be 16 years old or over, and
Be in one of the following priority groups:
- At risk of entering institutionalised care
- At risk of significant harm or exploitation
- Avoid an uncontrollable debt
- Care leavers 16 to 18 years (up to 25 years old if in education)
- Ex-offenders/leaving YOI
- Resettlement from custody for young people
- Leaving Accommodation Based Support services
- Leaving residential care
- Fleeing domestic abuse
- Escaping hate crime/harassment
- Person with terminal illness
- Child in Need in the home
- Child has child protection plan
- History of homelessness
- Runaways
- Sleeping rough for long period
- Living in poor accommodation including living in temporary accommodation
- Families where parent is misusing alcohol/drugs or has mental health crisis
- Pregnant women
- Assessed by GCC as being eligible for support from Health and Social care
- Telecare user
- Person with chronic illness
- History of Mental illness / self-harming
- History of substance or alcohol misuse and actively seeking rehabilitation
AND
Receive or awaiting means tested benefits or be on low income:
- Pension Credit
- Employment and Support Allowance
- Job Seekers Allowance
- Child tax credit
- Working tax credit
- Income Support
- Universal Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Are due to leave care within the next six weeks and likely to get one of the above benefits
- Furloughed due to COVID-19
- Young people leaving education at 18
- Children and young people who attend an independent Special School for education
- All children under the age of 5
- All care leavers
- All care leavers with children
- Children and young people with a disability
- Children and young people that need a specialised diet
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