Censored pages in the agreement between local authorities and a charity to help homeless people and those at risk of homelessness have cause a councillor grave concern.

Councillor Louise Griffiths, who was elected as the Green member for Battenhall in May, is a member of Worcester City Council’s communities committee, which received a report into the death of rough sleeper Cardon Banfield, who died aged 74.

Mr Banfield’s body was found in his tent in central Worcester in July 2016.

The committee also heard there were discussions about the future of the homelessness prevention service run by charity Caring for Communities and People (CCP), and managed by the city council on behalf of the six district councils in Worcestershire.

But Cllr Griffiths feels that members of the council have not been given enough information about the agreement with CCP to make sure further tragedies are avoided.

She said: “One of the things the report into Mr Banfield’s death said was that care needs to be taken over what happens when services are switched, when a different charity or company takes over.

“I asked to see the original tender document from CCP and important parts of it are redacted. There are two and a half pages about ‘mobilisation’ – the process of taking over and starting the service – which are totally blacked out. That makes it impossible to see what was agreed when the contract was given to CCP.”

Cllr Griffiths added that made it hard for members of the council to make decisions about how to continue the service when the current contract with CCP runs out in March next year.

She said: “If we can’t see what was in the agreement about how the service would be taken over, and how CCP would ramp up, then how can we make the right decisions, when deciding what should happen next year?We have to make sure we take the report seriously and look at how services are transitioned, but we can’t do that if we don’t know how that worked last time. I think as elected members we should have this information.”

A spokesman for Worcester City Council said that the details were blacked out for reasons of commercial confidentiality. He added it was standard procedure relating to procurement of services that only the officers and councillors directly involved would have access to those details.