Funding cuts to elderly care on Arran have been given a three-month reprieve.
At a meeting last week, plans by North Ayrshire Council to cut more than £20,000 in funding to the Trust Housing Association for Arran were put on hold until the end of June.
As previously reported by the Banner, the cuts would hit both the Glen Estate sheltered housing complex in Brodick and the McKelvie Road Housing Association in Lamlash, with the potential loss of the elderly co-ordinator.
Clarified
Lynn Ross, of the Glen Estate Tenants’ Association, said: Nothing was clarified at that meeting apart from the fact there is a three-month extension to the proposed cuts. We are now waiting for the Trust to meet with North Ayrshire Council to see what the options are for providing the services we need in sheltered housing, not the least the daily co-ordinator, who acts as a vital first responder to problems among residents, avoiding the cost of hospital admissions and other avoidable expenses. ‘I, for one, was left with the impression that the council is indifferent to our needs as older people in the community.