A consultation about future arrangements for daytime support for older people ended on 20 August 2009.  The consultation document explained the proposal to offer older people who need support to get out of the house “personal budgets” which they can use to pay for any extra help they need to take part in ordinary community activities, and to close seven general-purpose day care centres for older people operated by the Council, while retaining specialist day care centres for older people with dementia, and continuing to fund a range of independent sector day services.

The Council's Executive and the full Council will be considering the results of this consultation at special meetings on 17 September 2009.  The report to the Executive discusses the response to the consultation in detail, and recommends a revised option which takes account of many of the points which were raised.  (This text includes a correction to a minor error in the version sent to Area Committees and the Community Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which incorrectly in Appendix 2 described Greenholme Day Care Centre as being open for four days a week rather than five.)

The wider set of changes in adult care which these proposals form part of is explained on our Putting People First pages.

Queries about the background to the report can be emailed to us at dayservices@nct.nhs.uk

Other documents which you may find useful are:

• Consultation Feedback Presentation - presentation used in Day Care Centres on 1st and 2nd September to summarise the contents of the report and the process to be followed.
• Equality Impact Assessment.