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Conditions in one of the Council's units of temporary
accommodation are unsatisfactory and intensive effort is being made to find
a suitable alternative. The problem of homelessness in the Borough is not
acute though the temporary accommodation provided is for the most part
fully usedo
Receivership and Care of Moveable Property
Under Section 48 of the National Assistance Act, the Borough
Council has a duty to provide temporary protection of property of persons
admitted to hospital or residential accommodation where there is no other
person capable of accepting such responsibility and, during the year, five such
cases were dealt with.
This is an important responsibility which sometimes involves
application to the Court of Protection for a "Receivership" to be set up or
to the Official Solicitor for authority to deal with property. Inventories
of furniture and personal effects are made by the Social Welfare Officers.
Disposal of the Dead
Under Section 50 of the same Act, the Council is responsible
for disposing of bodies where no other person will undertake this duty
and during the year four such cases have been dealt with, the expense or
proportion of expense being recovered from any assets which were left by the
deceasedo
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