Appendix 1 – Call-in Request

Councillors Anne Cross, Kathryn Field, Carolyn Lambert and Trevor Webb request a call-in of the decision by Cabinet to close the Linden Court Day Service for people with a learning disability and merge it with Beeching Park day service for the following reasons:

In principle, the agreement that has been made between the District, Borough and County Council leaders in preparation for unitarisation processes, includes this: ‘…Decisions made by all sovereign bodies until vesting day [when the Unitary Authority takes control] will have the interests of future unitary council as an explicit consideration.’ The impact of this decision on districts and boroughs was also not sufficiently considered.