DATED day centres used by vulnerable adults face being axed and other care services outsourced as part of a major council review.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council hopes to save £250,000 by closing the two centres for adults with learning difficulties and transferring the users elsewhere.
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Portland House.
The authority is also planning to outsource its remaining facilities and some of the 150 staff to voluntary or not-for-profit organisations in a bid to cut costs.
Now 750 people using the council’s learning disability service are set to be asked for their views in a three-month public consultation starting on July 8.
Members of the council’s cabinet are expected to approve the consultation process at a meeting next week.
The proposals include:
Discontinuing services at Duke Street, in Fenton, and Portland House, Middleport;
Investing
£2.8 million in refurbishing The Meadows, below, in Bucknall;
Re-designing Meakin House, in Shelton, St John’s Centre, in Abbey Hulton, Waterside, in Blurton, Riverside, in Stoke and the Able Project, in Fenton;
Considering retaining or transferring some of the 150 staff employed across the centres to outside organisations.
