Issue - meetings

Cabinet received a report setting out the outcomes of the consultation undertaken in relation to the proposed savings of £644,000 to the Adult Social Care budget which funds 24 hour care services in 14 sheltered accommodation schemes across the county, following an assessment undertaken of the long term suitability, in terms of size and design, of these 14 schemes to deliver an extra care service. Consultation was undertaken in 5 schemes identified as being the least sustainable and cost effective in the future.

Resolved: That

  i.  the cessation of the background care service (staff on site 24 hours per day) within 5 extra care schemes namely Beck View (Lancaster), Parkside Court (Morecambe), Plessington (Longridge) Torrentum (Thornton) and Croft (Freckleton) be approved.

  ii.  the Executive Director of Adult Services and Health & Wellbeing, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Services, be authorised to determine the future provision of care in Molyneux Court, Preston.

  iii.  the extension of contracts, initially until the end of May 2019, with the option to extend for a further 3 months where circumstances within individual schemes require a longer implementation period be approved.