Decision details

RESOLVED:

That the decision taken in relation to the Future of Council Operated Dementia Care Home Provision (Castle Grange and Claremont House) be referred to the Cabinet with the following recommendation in relation to the areas of focus as follows:

That the decision be put on hold and that Cabinet be provided with the full, multi-year financial analysis in a further report and reconsider the decision on the basis of that information.

The Panel also highlighted the following learning points:

1. In order to ensure openness and transparency, full and complete information should be provided to all Cabinet Members and published in Cabinet reports, such as the multi-year financial analysis, wherever possible, restricted if necessary due to being private information.
2. That pre-decision scrutiny by the relevant Panel should be undertaken to inform significant Cabinet decisions.