Monday
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Day care services consultation gets underway
25/10/2023 @ 02:41
Confirmation has been given of a consultation into "day services" in the area, including day centre such as Newtown's Park Street.
It comes after a meeting of Newtown Town Council on Monday at which the council's Cabinet member with responsibility for the centres apologised to councillors for not informing them of a decision to extend a lease on the building to the local health authority.
Cllr Sian Cox was grilled by town councillors as to why the day centre had not re-opened, stressing the importance of it in the community.
Cllr Cox told them a consultation would soon be launched into day services in the county.
Powys County Council has now confirmed the consultation.
"A wide scale engagement exercise about the day opportunities available across Powys has begun," the county council said.
It said there are a variety of day opportunities available in the county. These include:
• Day centres for older people and adults with learning disabilities.
• Independent organisations that provide activities for adults that have specific care and support needs, such as Dementia café’s, Integrated sports groups, and wellbeing sessions.
• Activities that are open to everybody that people can attend with or without support.
Cabinet Member for a Caring Powys, Cllr Sian Cox said: "We know that our wellbeing depends on a range of things, which vary a little from person to person, but fundamentally include feeling fulfilled, valued, part of something and in control of our lives. Day opportunities should contribute to these aspects of wellbeing.
“We know from conversations with many people across Powys that our day opportunities could contribute more meaningfully to fulfilled lives. This engagement project will explore, with you, how that might be done.
“I encourage everyone with an interest in day opportunities to take part. We want to understand what matters to people who use day services, have in the past or may in the future; what matters to carers, families, and communities; what works well already, and what ‘better’ might look like; as we work together towards equal, inclusive, and high-quality day opportunities across Powys.”
Public engagement sessions are being held locally at Maesywennol Day Centre, Llanidloes on Friday, 16 November between 1.30pm and 2.30pm; Park Street Day Centre, Newtown, on 17 November between 1.30pm and 2.30pm; Sylfaen Day Centre, Llanidloes, between 1.30pm and 2.30pm and Llanidloes High School between 6pm and 7pm on Tuesday, 21 November; Castell y Dail Day Centre, Newtown, between 1.30pm and 2.30pm and at Newtown Library between 6pm and 7pm between Wednesday, 22 November.
For more details and to take part in the online engagement exercise, please visit: https://www.haveyoursaypowys.wales/day-opportunities-review
Paper copies of the survey are available to pick up from your local library and once complete you can hand it back to staff at a Powys Library, alternatively you can scan it and email it to haveyoursay@powys.gov.uk.
The closing date for responses is Monday 11 December 2023.
It comes after a meeting of Newtown Town Council on Monday at which the council's Cabinet member with responsibility for the centres apologised to councillors for not informing them of a decision to extend a lease on the building to the local health authority.Cllr Sian Cox was grilled by town councillors as to why the day centre had not re-opened, stressing the importance of it in the community.
Cllr Cox told them a consultation would soon be launched into day services in the county.
Powys County Council has now confirmed the consultation.
"A wide scale engagement exercise about the day opportunities available across Powys has begun," the county council said.
It said there are a variety of day opportunities available in the county. These include:
• Day centres for older people and adults with learning disabilities.
• Independent organisations that provide activities for adults that have specific care and support needs, such as Dementia café’s, Integrated sports groups, and wellbeing sessions.
• Activities that are open to everybody that people can attend with or without support.
Cabinet Member for a Caring Powys, Cllr Sian Cox said: "We know that our wellbeing depends on a range of things, which vary a little from person to person, but fundamentally include feeling fulfilled, valued, part of something and in control of our lives. Day opportunities should contribute to these aspects of wellbeing.
“We know from conversations with many people across Powys that our day opportunities could contribute more meaningfully to fulfilled lives. This engagement project will explore, with you, how that might be done.
“I encourage everyone with an interest in day opportunities to take part. We want to understand what matters to people who use day services, have in the past or may in the future; what matters to carers, families, and communities; what works well already, and what ‘better’ might look like; as we work together towards equal, inclusive, and high-quality day opportunities across Powys.”
Public engagement sessions are being held locally at Maesywennol Day Centre, Llanidloes on Friday, 16 November between 1.30pm and 2.30pm; Park Street Day Centre, Newtown, on 17 November between 1.30pm and 2.30pm; Sylfaen Day Centre, Llanidloes, between 1.30pm and 2.30pm and Llanidloes High School between 6pm and 7pm on Tuesday, 21 November; Castell y Dail Day Centre, Newtown, between 1.30pm and 2.30pm and at Newtown Library between 6pm and 7pm between Wednesday, 22 November.
For more details and to take part in the online engagement exercise, please visit: https://www.haveyoursaypowys.wales/day-opportunities-review
Paper copies of the survey are available to pick up from your local library and once complete you can hand it back to staff at a Powys Library, alternatively you can scan it and email it to haveyoursay@powys.gov.uk.
The closing date for responses is Monday 11 December 2023.
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