Issue - meetings

“Could I have an update regarding the Cwmamman Day centre. When are the County Council planning to open the Day centre for the whole week providing 30 clients with services. In addition, what are your plans to open the kitchen at centre for local people to enable the provision of meals on wheels and a luncheon club on a Thursday for local pensioners”.

“Could I have an update regarding the Cwmamman Day centre? When are the County Council planning to open the Day centre for the whole week providing 30 clients with services? In addition, what are your plans to open the kitchen at centre for local people to enable the provision of meals on wheels and a luncheon club on a Thursday for local pensioners?”

Response by Councillor Jane Tremlett – Cabinet Member for Health and Social Services:-

“Cwmamman Day Centre reopened originally two days a week. At the beginning of September we increased this to three days a week with 20 attendees and this meets current demand for the service. We are reviewing the position of demand on a regular basis but there are no plans to increase provision to five days at the present time. There is capacity, however, on existing days to meet any additional demand that may be identified.  We have successfully sourced meals for the attendees from Ty Dyffryn Extra Care Scheme and this will save £100,000 per year.  Clearly meals can be delivered more cost effectively currently from Ty Dyffryn and it is intended this will continue.  Also, there are upgrading works that would be required to reopen the kitchen which would cost the Council an additional £150,000.  Whether to invest will, no doubt, be discussed as part of the forthcoming budget setting consultations and decisions. As a result we are not in a position to offer the kitchen for use by the community for other purposes such as community meals and luncheon clubs at the present time.  We would, however, welcome opening other elements of the provision to the community and would be open to discussions about that.

Cllr. Madge has already discussed options with me and officers at a series of meetings held in the day centre pre-pandemic and I’m sure, by agreement, those discussions could be resumed.

Members of the community are able to contact Delta Wellbeing for information and advice about local businesses that can provide hot meals delivered to their door as well as community groups who can support them with socialising in their communities.”

There was no supplementary question.

“Could I have an update regarding the Cwmamman Day centre. When are the County Council planning to open the Day centre for the whole week providing 30 clients with services. In addition, what are your plans to open the kitchen at centre for local people to enable the provision of meals on wheels and a luncheon club on a Thursday for local pensioners”.