Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and the Corporate Director of Social Care, Health and Wellbeing on the future provision of accommodation-based short breaks for children, young people and adults with a disability.  The Committee is asked to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member on the proposed way forward.

Ms S McGibbon, Change Implementation Officer, and Ms R Adby, Infrastructure Business Relationship Manager, were in attendance for this item.

1.            Ms Southern introduced the report and presented a series of slides which set out the planned development of the service and set out the key aims of the current proposed development, for example, to achieve a smooth transition between children’s and adults’ services. She reassured Members that there was no proposed reduction to service provision and demonstrated that the accommodation-based short break services were countywide services and therefore accessed based on which service could best meet the needs of the individual, rather than the location of the building.

2.            The Cabinet Member, Mr Gibbens, drew Members’ attention to the easy-read report, which had been presented in the agenda pack with the usual papers, as had become customary when reporting on a range of public-facing services, and said he would welcome Members’ views on how to improve and clarify the presentation of future reports.

3.            RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, to proceed with the accommodation-based short break model, to end service provision from Osborne Court,  to identify alternative services for the 58 service users and family carers and close Osborne Court, and to delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, or other nominated officer, to undertake the necessary actions to implement the decision, be endorsed.