Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendations.

Councillor Jones introduced the report and explained that, as part of its ambitious plans, and Welsh Governments (WG) agenda to rebalance care,

the Council was committed to increasing the in-house residential care capacity

across the authority. Following from the success of the Marleyfield House new

build in Buckley, the next stage in this work was to look at increasing capacity in the Flint area.

Currently, Flint had the provision of Croes Atti, a 31-placement residential care

home located in Prince of Wales Avenue.

Over the last 12 months work had been underway to explore appropriate options to increase the capacity of residential care in Flint and the surrounding area through a number of options appraisals and site designs. This had resulted in the Council bringing forward the site on Cornist Road where Flint Community Hospital

previously stood in early 2022. Since that time a full feasibility study had been

completed exploring options of how a new 56 placement home could be situated

on the site.

The Chief Officer (Social Services) gave an overview of progress to date on the design as well as detailing key milestones as the detailed design of the home was finalised, including the delivery of the operating model of the home.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That support for the ‘Croes Atti 2’ project as a strategic priority for Social Services be confirmed; and

(b)       That the key upcoming project activities including developing and implementing the operational model with the Health Board be noted.