Issue - meetings

Ken Clemens, Age Concern Cheshire, will brief the committee on their review of day services.

The following background documents are attached:

      Age Concern Cheshire leaflet – “How we made a difference in Cheshire East”;

      Age Concern Supporting You service report October 2009 – March 2010;

      Briefing note from Phil Lloyd, Head of Adult Services, Cheshire East Council;

      Presentation notes from Phil Lloyd;

      Age Concern Cheshire Service Review;

      Older People’s Services – Health and Social Care Joint Commissioning Plan 2010 -11.

Ken Clemens from Age Concern, Cheshire, attended the meeting to outline the future proposals for day care centres. He highlighted that the trustees, PCT and Local Authority were currently undertaking a review as Age Concern would need to work differently in the future in order to provide the best value for money. This involved mapping out what services are provided and who they are provided to, assessing the possible options and finally developing strategies.  Until this review had been completed no change would be made to the day centres.

Mr Clemens felt that the level of public interest was encouraging and that this needed to be taken into consideration by the local authority, when it assess what services are important to the public.

The Committee noted that a decision would not be made on the future of the centres until the review had been completed by April 2011 at the earliest. However Members expressed concern that this important issue had not been brought to their attention earlier.

Members agreed that as this issue was of significant importance to the public a Task and Finish Group comprising of Councillors C Beard, S Jones, C Andrew, D Bebbington, S Bentley and D Flude be established to investigate the wider issues and Cheshire East Councils involvement in further detail.

RESOLVED

That a Task and Finish Group comprising of Councillors C Beard, S Jones, C Andrew, D Bebbington, S Bentley and D Flude be established to review Cheshire East’s involvement in Age Concern.