Adult Social Care - Care centre public consultation
About the consultation
The Adult Social Care - Care centres public consultation runs from 14 October 2024 to 20 December 2024.
Birmingham City Council currently provides residential care for adults at three care centres across Birmingham – the Ann Marie Howes Centre; the Perry Trees Centre; and the Kenrick Centre.
The council wants the best quality of life for all its citizens. However, we must also ensure our services are efficient and provide value for money.
The Council’s budget that was approved earlier in the year and recommended a review of the care centres, looking at how the services they provide can be delivered as efficiently as possible. This review has identified a range of options about how these services could be delivered more efficiently in future.
We are currently inviting people who live at the centres, who use the centres or may use the centres to help shape the future of these services.
The consultation aims to gain feedback on the options available for the future of the care centres and in particular on the preferred option.
The preferred option is for the Council to stop operating these services in future and for the Council to support current residents to find a new care home and to rent the current care centres to the NHS (or others).
However, the consultation questionnaire should be read alongside the care centres public consultation document that explains the current service, the outcome of a recent review and the range of options that are being consulted upon.
While savings have been announced for this service, no decisions have been made about what the care centre service will look like in the future. The consultation outcomes will help inform decisions that will be taken by the Council in future.
The purpose of the consultation is to make sure that you have a chance to tell us your views on the proposals.
To find out more about our consultation and how you can take part, we suggest that you read the care centres consultation documents here:
ASC - Care centres consultation document
ASC - Care centres consultation easy read document
Equality Impact Assessment - Review of care centres
Have your say
Our survey
The online survey aims to capture your feedback on what the future of our care centres could look like under the proposed options.
Residential Care Centre's Consultation October 2024
The survey opens at Midday on Monday 14 October 2024 and closes at Midday on Friday 20 December 2024.
Our public meetings
The in-person consultations will take place from 22 October to 14 November 2024.
For events aimed at current residents and their families, invitations will be sent out by letter. They are not open to the public.
ASC - Care centres public consultation schedule
Page last updated: 17 October 2024
