Band B Care Leavers
- An Applicant went through the Care Leavers panel, was awarded Band B with backdated BSD, then became homeless and went into temp accommodation due to no fault of their own. In this scenario, the band reason was changed to HRA Band B and because the band remained the same, so did the Backdated BSD. As such, now the homeless care leaver would also benefit from homeless preference labelling. This was an exceptional scenario as applicant left supported acc to move in with grandparent for a couple of months to provide care, but they then passed away and had no succession right, hence needing to go into temp accommodation.
Pregnant applicant sharing a room with a sibling
If the applicant was not pregnant, this would be Band D for shared facilities, the pregnancy makes it band C for lacking one bedroom. If pregnant with twins, it would be Band B for severe overcrowding as would then be 2 children lacking a bedroom. at the Nov 25 Op group meeting, LAs present agreed that this would be the stance that they would take as the sibling is not also being housed and if homeless that the main applicant wouldn't be classed as lacking a bedroom, just the baby.