Decision details

To agree new scheme management arrangements.

(1)        That, following Essex County Council’s decision to cease the provision of on-site 24 hour staffing at Jessopp Court in Waltham Abbey, the scheme be re-modelled to a sheltered housing scheme and an additional post of 1 FTE Scheme Manager be added to the Council’s Establishment;               

(2)        That additional income of approximately £9,000 per annum received from Essex County Council’s Supporting People Team for the provision of housing-related support services at Jessopp Court be used to part-fund the new Scheme Manager post, which (when taking into account the additional income from self-funding tenants of approximately £2,600 per annum) left a remaining amount of around £9,830 to be met from the Housing Revenue Account (HRA);

(3)        That the Day Centre provision at Jessopp Court be continued, with the Council entering into an agreement with Essex County Council for the use of the lounge and the provision of associated cleaning services;

(4)        That the transfer of the two cleaning staff employed by Essex County Council under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) arrangements be noted and that the net cost of £10,500 for the cleaning service be funded by the HRA; and

(5)        That, subject to legal advice regarding the contractual rights of staff, a review of the cleaning service at Jessopp Court be undertaken to ensure that the full cost of the cleaning service was met from the income received from tenants’ cleaning charges and the charge made for this service under the Day Centre Agreement in the future.