Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Service Delivery) regarding the needs of older people and the services available to them.

Approved the recommendations of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Service Delivery) as outlined in paragraph 3 of the report subject to further clarification as to the associated budget provision requirements and the anticipated cost to the Council.

Further to Minute No. 06/59 consideration was given to a report by the Overview & Scrutiny Panel (Service Delivery) outlining the operational and financial implications of participation by the Council of providing enhanced services in the District for older people.

In discussing the development of the Council’s services and the potential for a pilot programme of exercise for older people, supported by the Luminus Group, Executive Members requested further clarification as to the associated budget provision requirements and the anticipated cost to the Council whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

  that, subject to clarification of the Council’s financial commitment to support a pilot programme of exercise for older people in the sum of £5,400 the recommendations of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Service Delivery) outlined in paragraph 3 of the report now submitted be approved.