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<p>The Household Support Fund is an intentionally flexible scheme, designed to enable
Local Authorities to deliver a tailored response to local need as they have the ties
and knowledge to best determine how this support should be provided.</p><p> </p><p>Local
Authorities have the flexibility to design and deliver their Household Support Fund
scheme through a variety of routes, including, for example, offering vouchers to households,
directly providing food, or issuing grants to third parties. This means that it is
for each local council to decide how, where and when they distribute their funding
within the parameters of the guidance and grant determination set out for them by
the Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p>Local Authorities are encouraged through
our guidance to work together with neighbouring Authorities to help prevent double
provision and/or no provision, especially where the allocation of provision may take
place in one area, but the award recipient has a residential address in another.</p>
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