Issue - meetings

The Director of Adult Social Care and Safeguarding presents a report that provides an overview of the rationale and approach to the proposal to close the Council run day care service for people with a physical and sensory disability at Douglas Bader Day Centre. A formal 3 month consultation exercise commenced with service users on 17^th September 2013.

I set out below the link that will take you to the papers that were submitted to the Executive and were referred to in the ‘intention to make a decision’.

http://cabinet.council.leicester.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=390

The Scrutiny Commission considered a report of the Director of Care Services and Commissioning which provided an overview of the rationale and approach to the proposal to close the Council run day care service for people with a physical and sensory disability at Douglas Bader Day Centre.  A formal 3 month consultation exercise had commenced with service users on 17^th September 2013.

It was noted that there had been a 25% drop in the number of clients attending the Centre since 2011 with a consequent rise in costs. The options to address the issues together with advantages, disadvantages and risks were detailed in the report.  Following consideration by the Executive a 3 month consultation exercise on closure had commenced on 17 September.

Members asked that they receive details of feedback from the consultation and receive an update at the meeting of the Commission scheduled for December.  In response it was suggested that it would be difficult to feedback at the meeting in December as the consultation would be on going.  It was suggested that the views of the staff unions should be heard by the Scrutiny Commission.

RESOLVED:

1.    That the Executive Member be requested to bring a full report on the results of the Consultation to the meeting scheduled for January 2014; and

2.    That staff trade union representatives be given the opportunity to make any representations at the next meeting of the Scrutiny Commission.