Leicester City Council funds six housing associations to provide support services to residents living in 31 non-council sheltered housing schemes. These services support people who, in most cases, do not meet the council’s threshold for care and support. We call it the Independent Living Support (ILS) Sheltered Support Service.
However, the council has to spend a lot more money on people who do meet the threshold for care and support and need help with things like washing, dressing, eating, and staying safe. This is costing more now because there are more older people in the city, more people who need a lot of social care help, and the costs of helping them are going up as well.
This is at a time when the government is cutting the amount of money it gives to local authorities and therefore we have to reduce the amount we spend on other services.
The ILS Sheltered Support Service is not something that we are required to fund by law. We propose to end the funding and we would like your views on that.
We would also like to hear your ideas for how the support might continue without our funding.
We will tell you what people said and what has been decided on the council’s consultation web pages in December 2018.
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