Issue - meetings

Review of Housing Related Support Services for Older People

 

 

Meeting: 15/07/2014 - Cabinet (Item 10)

10 Older Peoples' housing support service provision under Cheltenham Borough Homes pdf icon PDF 81 KB

Report of the Cabinet Member Housing

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED THAT

 

  1. The development and delivery of Option 2, the Community Asset Model, be agreed, and that the Deputy Chief Executive be authorised to enter into either a new contractual arrangement from October 2014 or to vary the existing contract as appropriate with Gloucestershire County Council in consultation with the s151 Officer and on terms approved by the Borough Solicitor.

 

  1. a further report be brought to cabinet to seek approval for the development and delivery of the Community Asset Model from October 2015. 

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member Housing introduced the report and explained that Gloucestershire County Council’s Supporting People Team commissioned Cheltenham Borough Council to provide housing-related support services to older people in sheltered housing. Cheltenham Borough Homes delivered this service through the management agreement. He reported that in October 2013 CBC entered into an agreement with Gloucestershire County Council to commence a 12 month consultation and development process with a view to deciding upon either Option 1-to develop and deliver an integrated housing management and related support service model or Option 2 to develop and deliver a Community Asset service model.

 

The Cabinet Member explained that a successful pilot of a community hub had been undertaken in one of CBC’s sheltered housing schemes in the south of Cheltenham (Wallace House) and it was proposed that CBC develop and deliver the Community Asset Model until October 2015.

 

Members supported the proposal and agreed that this “hub and spoke” approach used existing assets to their best advantage and provided tailored services to individuals based on changing needs. Both the financial efficiencies and value for money were effective and this proposal represented a positive way forward.

 

RESOLVED THAT

 

  1. The development and delivery of Option 2, the Community Asset Model, be agreed, and that the Deputy Chief Executive be authorised to enter into either a new contractual arrangement from October 2014 or to vary the existing contract as appropriate with Gloucestershire County Council in consultation with the s151 Officer and on terms approved by the Borough Solicitor.

 

  1. a further report be brought to cabinet to seek approval for the development and delivery of the Community Asset Model from October 2015.