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Bristol City Council Cabinet Agenda 29th March Lib Dem 'Options'
Item 5 Residential Care for Older People:
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/committee/2012/ua/ua000/0329_5.pdf
Item 6 Day Care Services:
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/committee/2012/ua/ua000/0329_6.pdf
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Council announces consultation on Day care and Residential services:
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/press/health-and-adult-care/opportunity-comment-residential-and-day-care-services
Hardly time for carers, families or staff to arrange cover for first meetings on Monday 5th Dec.
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Bristol City Council Care Homes to be butchered ?
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/10-12-care-homes-Bristol-shut/story-12825592-detail/story.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-13878459
Interesting that the "consultation" meetings contained in the Evening Post report scheduled for next week aren't mentioned on the Council's website or the bbc and the Council web pages haven't even been updated:
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Health-Social-Care/Services-for-the-elderly/residential-futures.en.
Local Government communictaion shambles.
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There's an item on the agenda for City Council Cabinet meeting on Thursday 9th June - Item 8, specifically about Adult Care Cuts:
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/committeecontent/?ref=ua&code=ua000&year=2011&month=06&day=09&hour=18&minute=00
Hopefully people can get along and demonstrate outside from 5.30 pm (as meeting also includes proposed cuts to subsidised public transport and an item on the so called "Local Economic Partnership").
Back On the Social Care front, also watch out for a meeting on THURSDAY 23RD JUNE 2011 7.30pm - 9pm at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft about the worrying changes that are taking place in Social Care in Bristol.
Hi been passed this info below:
-Employment freeze within the council - less permanent jobs offered to staff, pay freeze for 2 years, temp agency staff no longer having contracts renewed
-new ways of working - upcoming closures of offices, staff expected to work from home or hotdesk. Offices like Somerfield House now in operation, where morale is low because staff are working in a call centre environment
-Residential Futures - the closure of Social Services Elderly Peoples Homes (EPH) forcing elderly and vunerable people to relocate to a different home sometimes situated within poor geographical proximity to their friends and families. General upset and upheaval of moving.
-EPH closures impacting on bed blocking in hospital as staff have to set up huge packages of care at home or respite before discharge.
- Standards in Nusing Homes could drop as owners come to terms with public sector spending cuts
-Team Recovery Plans- locality teams now expected to cut services by offering (not always) suitable alternatives, assessments feel like they are no longer person centre but budget led.
-Personalization Agenda - which is now in place of Fair Access to Care Services, relatively new to Bristol City Council, Health and Social Care but feedback from other local authorities has been that service users' personal budgets and choice and control over their support (care) plans have been impacted on because of budget cuts
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