Issue - meetings

To consider recommendations for the further implementation of the Council’s approach to the redesign of adult social care services and to its strategy for dementia services.

Consideration was given to the further implementation of the Council’s approach to the Redesign of Adult Social Care Services, and to its strategy for dementia services.

RESOLVED

For the reasons set out in the report:

Cabinet agreed that:

1. the further work described in the report which has been taken forward to progress the implementation of the Cabinet’s policy of gradually developing more specialised provision for those with Dementia, and of reducing over time the extent of the Council’s reliance upon institutional, building based services, be noted;

2. negotiations should be undertaken with Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust (CECPCT) to seek their support for consultants to carry out an exercise to develop specific proposals for how Cheshire East Council and the CECPCT should provide services for older people suffering from dementia in the area in the future;

3. subject to the outcome of those negotiations, a procurement exercise should be undertaken to secure the services of consultants;

4. to acknowledge that any capital and revenue implications which arise from the proposals generated by this exercise, will be presented in a further report to the Cabinet, setting out the options and their potential impact upon the financial situation of the Council; 

5. an exercise should be undertaken to gather the views of existing and recent service users (and their carers) of Cypress House, a Community Support Centre in Handforth, around the option of closing that provision, both to contribute to the re-commissioning of resources for the creation of new specialist services, and to address its significant under-utilisation;

6. a report be made to the Cabinet setting out the views expressed during that exercise and the proposed response to them.