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Coventry council to cut 140 jobs and close care home Coventry council may cut about 140 jobs and close home
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Coventry City Council has unveiled plans to save £22m, including closing homes for people coming out of hospital and cutting about 140 care jobs. A Coventry care home for elderly people coming out of hospital is to close and 140 care jobs are to go, the city council has announced.
The authority needs to save £8m in 2014-15 and £15m for 2015-16. The plans account for about £10m of the £22.5m savings the council's community services must make by April 2016.
Other plans include withdrawing funding to outside care organisations and centralising services for adults with learning disabilities. The proposals include reducing funding to outside care organisations and centralising services for adults with learning disabilities.
Alison Gingell from the council said: "Our top priority is to protect the most vulnerable." Its "top priority" was to protect the most vulnerable, the authority said.
She admitted most of the 140 care jobs would be frontline staff, but some managers will also lose their jobs. Cabinet member for health and adult services Alison Gingell admitted most of the 140 care jobs would be frontline staff, but some managers would also lose their jobs.
"It's regrettable and not what we'd choose," said Ms Gingell, cabinet member for health and adult services. She said: "It's regrettable and not what we'd choose."
The Labour-led authority is planning to decommission either Jack Ball House in Henley Green or George Rowley House in Canley, the two remaining bedsit accommodation facilities in Coventry. The Labour-led authority is proposing to close Aylesford care centre, which provides assistance for elderly people who have been in hospital.
It is also planning to decommission either Jack Ball House in Henley Green or George Rowley House in Canley, the two remaining bedsit accommodation facilities in Coventry.
About 23 people stay in each house, many of them long-term tenants.About 23 people stay in each house, many of them long-term tenants.
Eric Williams House in Whoberley, the only remaining council-run residential home focussing on dementia care, is to stay open.Eric Williams House in Whoberley, the only remaining council-run residential home focussing on dementia care, is to stay open.
About 800 jobs at the council have already been cut over the past two years and another 800 are at risk over the next two years. About 800 jobs at the council have already been cut over the past two years and another 800 are still at risk, including about 140 care jobs revealed on Tuesday.
A three-month public consultation on the latest round of cuts will run from September to November. Next Tuesday, a public consultation over the community services proposals could be approved by cabinet which would run from 27 August to 15 November.
Cabinet would then decide in December whether to give the plans the go-ahead.