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Care Home Closure Puts 47 Jobs at Risk
23 Apr
Summary
- Gloucester's Great Western Court care home closure approved.
- Almost 50 jobs are at risk due to the closure.
- The home is deemed too expensive to run and under-utilised.
Gloucester's Great Western Court care home faces closure after Gloucestershire County Council leaders approved the plan on Wednesday. The decision comes as the council deems the facility too expensive to operate and under-utilised.
Opened as a council-owned care home, Great Western Court has been vacant since March. Despite this, it retains 47 dedicated staff members, many of whom are now at risk of redundancy. Council leaders stated that only nine of the 30 available beds had been occupied in recent years, making the building unfit for its current purpose.
Council leadership emphasized a strategic shift towards enabling individuals to receive care within their own homes, citing research that suggests faster recovery rates in familiar surroundings. While expressing a desire to retain the skilled staff, the possibility of redundancies was acknowledged. The decision to close was reiterated even if finances were not a barrier, due to the building's inadequacy for modern care models.
