Issue details

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Adults and Health seeking approval for residential respite provision.

The current contracts for overnight residential respite are due to come to an end on 31 March 2025. This includes the residential respite service delivered by Way Ahead at Weston Court (a 3-bedded unit in a building owned by the Council) and the Rose Road residential respite service for children and adults. There is therefore a need to review what these services should look like and how they are provided in future.

Residential overnight care remains an important part of our respite offer. However we need to make changes to our services to ensure that we can support people with high quality provision in the most cost-effective way whilst meeting increasing need going forward. We are proposing to expand the provision at Kentish Road to enable us to deliver the majority of overnight residential respite in-house for adults with learning disabilities in Southampton and increase the overall amount of overnight residential respite that we provide. We have consulted on two options with current users of Rose Road, Weston Court and Kentish Road services between 24 October and 16 December 2024.

1. To deliver the majority of overnight respite from Kentish Road, i.e. one main site
2. To deliver the majority of overnight respite from two sites, Kentish Road and Weston Court.?

The purpose of the paper will be to present to Cabinet the feedback from the consultation, the options (along with their impact and costs) and the final recommendations for decision.