Issue - meetings

Report 11071

Consideration was given to a report proposing the extension of current contracts for dementia day care centres and for mainstream centres with dementia-specific places both of which were due  to expire in 2012.  Reference was made in the report to the changing needs of day centre users during the last 25 years since the service was outsourced from direct Council provision in 1986. There was now a need to reassess the situation as well as the way forward in providing appropriate services for clients and particularly working with voluntary organisations in developing what they had to offer and for them to attract more people who self fund.  Members briefly discussed the implications for the future, the possible reduction in referrals to day centres, older people living longer and the increase in people who self fund and supported extending the contracts until March 2013.

RESOLVED that approval be given for the extension of the current contracts until March 2013.