Madam,

Re those of us who are fighting to stop Bodlondeb residential care home in Penparcau from being closed down and the site sold off.

We are not negotiating with 42 county councillors, who represent every constituent in Ceredigion, who should be making the final decision as to the future of Bodlondeb.

We have to influence eight county councillors on the Cabinet to stop Ceredigion County Council from selling the building and its land to the highest bidder.

Let me remind your readers that there was no public consultaton for Park Avenue Day Centre in Aberystwyth.

At present we have the empty Gas Board office, next to M&S - owned, I am told, by Ceredigion Council. This could, and should, provide a more appropriate day centre.

I don’t know the eight county councillors on the Cabinet. Do any of them represent one of the Aberystwyth wards?

I don’t have any faith or hope in their deliberations, following our fight for the day centre.

We must take our fight to the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff. They could make the provision of a facility like Bodlondeb a statutory requirement.

They could also make the Social Services department and the health board jointly responsible for making Bodlondeb the only joint dementia and care home in Aberystwyth, in keeping with the needs of the area.

As things are, we cannot afford to lose one of the six remaining residential care homes, owned by Ceredigion Council, in the public sector.

All six homes should be providing dementia and residential care.

A joint commitment by the health board and Social Services is the way forward.

Yours etc,

Dai Thomas, Llwyn-yr-Eos, Southgate, Aberystwyth.

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