Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of Adult and Housing Services  - To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services) The report will  inform Cabinet Members of the outcome of extensive consultation with a range of people who use Adult Services Day Opportunities, their families/carers and other key stakeholders in relation to decisions made in principle on 21st December 2010 about the future of these services.

The report will further propose a range of amended proposals in relation to the Day Opportunities services in question, that have been adjusted to take account of the comments received following extensive consultation (Appendix 2), and also an Equalities Impact Assessment (Appendix 1) undertaken over the same period.

The Cabinet received a report that provided an overview of the consultation that had been undertaken with a range of people that used Adult Services Day Opportunities, their families/carers and other key stakeholders in relation to decisions made in principle on 21 December 2010 about the future of these services.

A range of amended proposals were set out in the report with respect to the Day Opportunities services in question, which took in to account the comments received as part of the consultation process.

RESOLVED:

That the following recommendations, set out below, be agreed:

The Haven Day Centre for Older People

That this would not be closed, as previously proposed, but that the service model would be adjusted to provide a new and more flexible service for all adults providing care and support to both older people and people with mental health issues who live in the east of the Borough. With the rolling out of personal budgets, older people using the centre to purchase their care via a personal budget and look to an appropriate voluntary or independent sector provider to provide the service in the future, subject to market testing.

Grange/Hayes Centres for Older Adults with Dementia

That this would not be combined on one site, as previously proposed, but to continue as separate units under a combined staff and management structure and the day opportunities support there would be purchased via a personal budget as above.

684 Centre for People with Mental Health Issues

This would be closed no later than 31 March 2012, as originally proposed, with eligible users of the service being offered an alternative service in The Clarendon Centre and on an outreach basis for two days in The Haven; care from The Haven to be purchased via a personal budget given to people to gain increased choice and control of their support packages.

Woodside Day Centre for Older People

That this would closed by no later than 31 March 2012 as originally proposed, with eligible service users offered a service in The Grange, The Hayes Centre or The Haven and their care to be purchased via a personal budget.