Decision details

Having considered an officer report, and presentations by the Cabinet

Member for Health, Well-Being and Older People, Councillor Chris Best, John

O’Shea of Lewisham Mencap, Helen Bashford, the Mayor agreed that:

(1) officers should report to him and Cllr Best on a confidential basis every 4

weeks detailing progress on implementation including problems encountered

in individual cases;

(2) the outcomes of the consultation as set out in section 6 and the Equalities

Analysis Assessment in Appendix 12 be received;

(3) the report be considered in conjunction with the ’Voluntary Sector

Accommodation Implementation Plan’ report;

(4). service provision be consolidated to the three services for service users

with complex needs – the Intensive Support resource (ISR), the Challenging

Needs Service (CNS) and the Specialist Dementia Service;

(5) an undertaking be given to identify specific partners to work with

the Council to maintain key activities in the areas of supported

employment (e.g. Grow and ‘Tuck Stop’) and also performance art (i.e.

‘Uproar’ and ‘Dare to Dream’);

(6) the Intensive Support (ISR) service for people with profound

learning disabilities and complex needs currently at Leemore moves to

the Ladywell Centre;

(7) a service to be known as ‘A Place to Meet’ (the ‘drop in’ service) is

commissioned to support people no longer eligible for Council funded day

care.

(8) the older adults currently using the Ladywell Centre who have not

already moved to the specialist Dementia Unit move to the Housing 21

managed day centres at Cedar Court and Cinnamon Court or other

similar provision of their expressed preference;

(9) specific areas be allocated for the delivery of services to people

with a learning disability in Mulberry, Leemore and Naborhood and these

centres extend their use to the wider Lewisham community as

community hubs for a wider range of purposes in partnership with

existing third sector organisations;

(10) the three centres, Leemore, Mulberry and Naborhood be recognised as

community hubs as part of the Community Services Assets portfolio, and

there be different rental and running costs and charges from those applied to

general lettings;

(11) voluntary and community providers be invited to offer activities and

support to people who will be receiving a direct payment or

personal budget, either via the community hubs or alongside them;

(12) service users have the opportunity to use their direct payment to

employ a personal assistant and make use of the community hubs;

(13) the in-house Door2Door transport be maintained only for older

adults, the most complex service users with long term conditions, and

the remaining Council directly managed service users (ISR, CNS,

Dementia) with the travel needs of remaining eligible day service users

be met by a variety of alternatives including travel training and

buddying; shared escorted and unescorted taxis and volunteer drivers; and

(14) £14,000 per annum continues to be available to fund transport to

evening clubs for those existing people living at home with their families.