New Millennium Survey

Day opportunities provide a vital part of many adult social care service users care, ensuring that their wider health and wellbeing is supported alongside personal care needs. When the right care is provided this can increase the level of independence someone has and meet their holistic needs in a person-centred way.

The wrong care however can have the opposite effect, and more traditional forms of day opportunities can increase the level of dependency on care unnecessarily and replace involvement in wider society that they could have through employment, volunteering or involvement in other parts of community life and culture.

Brent Council is seeking to develop a more dynamic day support offer, that creates a more varied and effective offer for Brent’s diverse community. This will operate in a hub and spoke model and promote sessional use of day opportunities and a more flexible offer for people using day services; individuals and their families will have the choice of support through building based and/or more community-based offers. Some people will be able to have a direct payment and use this to purchase the day services that they wish to attend, when they want to attend them, including accessing services in the evenings and weekends if this fits with their care and support needs. 

As part of this approach, the council is consulting on the closure of New Millennium Day Centre. New Millennium is one of the council's in-house day centres. Specific engagement events will be held with the people directly effected by this proposal, but the council is also publishing a short survey for other people to feedback their views.

Further information on this proposals is included in the documents below. A separate consultation will take place on the vision and approach for day services in Brent, with service users, their families and the provider sector starting in the new year.

In the meantime, people are invited to feedback their views on the proposals for the New Millennium Day Centre.