DISGRUNTLED Ceredigion councillors are to take the “last throw of the dice” to try to save Bodlondeb care home after it was announced a Cabinet decision to proceed with closure has been called in.

The council’s Cabinet had unanimously agreed to close Bodlondeb by the end of March next year, despite calls from councillors and campaigners to let the full council make the decision.

But after that request was rejected, Cllr Alun Lloyd Jones, the chairman of the Healthier Communities Scrutiny Committee, has attracted the backing of fellow councillors to call that decision in to be reconsidered.

The councillors who called in the Cabinet decision were Alun Lloyd Jones, Paul Hinge, Lyndon Lloyd, Lloyd Edwards, Gethin Davies and Hag Harris.

A meeting of the scrutiny committee will now be held on Monday, 20 November where the committee will have to agree a recommendation to be made to the Cabinet again.

Cllr Lloyd Jones said: “I have legally called it in and it now has to go back to the special scrutiny meeting on Monday, 20 November. If it goes back to full council, I would ask for a recorded vote and I have the support for that. This is the last throw of the dice. I couldn’t let it go, it is too important.

“The wording on the call-in is ‘Bodlondeb should not be closed until and unless a suitable alternative is available for residents to be looked after as they have done for the last 50 years’.”

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