We have developed a draft Customer Access Strategy to help improve our customer service and make it easier for customers to access our services. We now want the views of our customers on our proposals. Click here to read our summary consultation document to find out more and tell us what you think about our [...]
The Worshipful the Mayor, Councillor David Longstaff, accompanied by the Mayoress his partner Ms Gillian Griffiths, performed a ribbon cutting ceremony at Rosa Morison on 28 July 2016 and declared the new sensory garden officially open. The Chair of The Barnet Group, Terry Rogers, welcomed the Mayor and thanked him for attending. Rosa Morison is [...]
On 16 June 2016, Barnet Council’s Adults and Safeguarding Committee agreed a new contract for Your Choice Barnet (YCB). The council’s current agreement with YCB is due to end on 31 January 2017 and the new contract with YCB is set for five years* from 1 February 2017 with an extension period of two years. [...]
Help us make a difference to the lives of disabled people £4,000 a year + expenses - estimated one day per month required Based at Barnet House - Whetstone Your Choice Barnet provides a range of services to people with a range of learning and physical disabilities. We support more than 200 people and are [...]
Barnet Supported Living Service was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on 6 and 7 August 2014. The report was published on CQC's website on 26 February 2015. Barnet Supported Living Service has five schemes across the London Borough of Barnet, providing care and support to people with a learning disability, mental health needs [...]
Barnet Supported Living Service was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on 6 and 7 August 2014. The report was published on CQC's website on 26 February 2015. Barnet Supported Living Service has five schemes across the London Borough of Barnet, providing care and support to people with a learning disability, mental health needs [...]
YCB staff who rejected Unison's call to strike this week are continuing to support customers across YCB's six schemes on the third day of strike action. As last week, specialist services Flower Lane and Rosa Morison are forced to close, but again some of their customers are being supported from Valley Way respite service. Customers [...]
1 Background to pay cut dispute Adult Social Care budgets across the country are facing significant challenge. In April 2013 The Local Government Association published a report entitled Adult social care spending round submission. In this report they showed that Councils have had to reduce their adult social care budgets by 20% over three years. [...]
Your Choice Barnet (YCB) would like to correct some inaccuracies and clarify some misunderstandings regarding YCB which arose at the public Question Time session at Friern Barnet Library on 20 June, as follows: Concern was raised that some of the services are being closed, in particular CommunitySpace on a Friday, this is not the case, [...]
As a result of talks at ACAS on Friday 13 June, the following agreement has been reached: Your Choice Barnet has agreed to make a one-off payment in the July pay run to the equivalent of reinstating the 9.5% reduction for that month only to affected staff. Talks will continue between UNISON and YCB with [...]