Issue - meetings

Report of the Strategic Director - Children, Schools and Families

Further to Minute No. 144 of the meeting of the Cabinet Member - Children’s Services held on 4 May 2010, the Cabinet considered the report of the Strategic Director - Children, Schools and Families seeking approval to the implementation of schemes at Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre to be funded from the Aiming High for Disabled Children Capital Allocation.

RESOLVED:            That

(1)       the schemes detailed in the report be approved, and

(2)       the schemes be included in the Children, Schools and Families Capital Programme 2010/11.

Report of the Strategic Director - Children, Schools and Families

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Strategic Director - Children, Schools and Families seeking approval of schemes to be funded from the Aiming High for Disabled Children Capital Allocation.

The report indicated that it was proposed to expend £60,000 to enable adaptations to be made to the newly constructed Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre to allow the flexibility required to provide short breaks for families with disabled children; these changes would include the provision of a children's lounge and youth activity area, ceiling tracking in some of the bedrooms and specialist changing beds; and that it was proposed to use a further £20,000 to purchase small capital items such as changing beds and hoists for existing facilities and services, such as Sefton Leisure Centres, to make them more widely accessible to the target families.

RESOLVED:   That

(1)       the scheme at the Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre and the purchase of small capital items be approved; and

(2)            Cabinet be recommended to include the proposed expenditure in the Children, Schools and Families Capital Programme 2010/11.