The Council has agreed to review its homelessness procedures and make any changes needed to ensure:• homeless applicants: with dependent children; aged 16 &17; or pregnant are only placed in B&B accommodation when no other accommodation is available, and for a maximum of six weeks;• it actively searches for suitable alternative accommodation for those households placed in B&B accommodation or unsuitable accommodation; and• it records and monitors the length of time households remain in B&B accommodation and the action being taken to move them to suitable accommodation.The Council has agreed to review its housing allocation procedures and make any changes needed to ensure:• its officers properly follow the process set out in its published scheme when making decisions about an applicant’s medical priority band – in particular that medical advisers give recommendations which the Council should consider together with the information provided before making a decision;• officers record their decisions about medical priority; and• when applicants are notified of a decision about their priority band they are also told about their right to ask for a review of the decision.