Issue - decisions

(i) The Director of Commercial Services in consultation with the Director of Commissioning (Communities) to tender for the provision of dementia residential short term care beds and day services across the city based on the current demand at Hurlfield View;

(ii) delegate authority to the Director of Commissioning (Communities) in consultation with the Interim Director of Finance and Commercial Services to award the contracts for residential short term care beds and day services and delegate authority to the Directors of Legal and Governance and Commercial Services to take all necessary steps to negotiate and enter into the contract.   The new contracts will commence on the 1st April 2017; and                                                                  

(iii) delegate authority to the Director of Commissioning (Communities) in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care to develop the community day support facilities in line with consultation and the dementia commissioning plan.

Delegate authority to the Director of Commissioning (Communities) in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care to take such steps as they deem appropriate to achieve the outcomes set out in this report including any subsequent plans for the closure of the Hurlfield Resource Centre.