Care home closure hits 46 residents, 60 staff
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A spokesman said: “After careful consideration Four Seasons Health Care plans to cease operating Woodlands Care Home in Mirfield.
“The company is undertaking a consultation process with the staff about the proposed closure.
“The plan to cease operating the home has not been arrived at easily, but we think it is unavoidable based on a combination of factors.
“The internal configuration of the building means the environment presents significant challenges in SPORTING children were victorious in the West Yorkshire School Games.
Ten Kirklees schools – All Saints, Helme C of E, Holmfirth High, Kirkburton Middle, Huddersfield Grammar, Brockholes CofE, Battyeford Primary, Norristhorpe Junior & Infant, Rowley Lane, Scissett Middle – were among 650 children to take part in the sporting competition.
Organised by the Yorkshire Sport Foundation, it brought pupils together from Wakefield, Calderdale, Leeds, Bradford and Kirklees schools to represent their district in the West Yorkshire School Games, which was attended by five-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft MBE.
All Saints boys were champions in the U16 boys basketball.
Huddersfield Grammar came third in Year 7 netball; All Saints came third in Under 14 boys basketball; Holmfirth High came second in the Year 10 boys table tennis and Helme CofE came third in Boccia.
Paralympian Hannah Cockroft said: caring for people, many of whom have complex needs.
“As we struggle to maintain the standards that we expect to provide, we are not prepared to continue with the home.
“The premises would require very substantial work to bring it to our expectations of a modern care home and we think the residents’ care needs can be met better in an alternative environment.
“A secondary consideration is that the home has a remote location that is not easily accessible.
“The wellbeing of the people living “I got involved in athletics by coming to an event very much like this. I love going out competing and proving people wrong.
“Growing up, a lot of people told me that because I’m in a wheelchair I could never join in with sports and I couldn’t be active.
“I just hated being told I couldn’t do something so my motivation was to go out and show them what I can do instead of what I can’t.” in the home is our priority and we will work closely with Kirklees Council’s Social Services team and other care commissioning stakeholders to ensure that the residents and their families are supported to find suitable alternative placements.
“Woodlands will continue to provide care while we allow plenty of time for the most appropriate arrangements to be made for all residents.”
A Kirklees Council spokesman said: “Despite making every effort to find a way for Four Seasons to keep the home open, the council and Central Commissioning Group, (which buys and plans hospital and community services for the Kirklees community), accept their final decision to close.
“We are now putting in place a plan to ensure the residents are safely transferred to new care and support placements.
“We have already identified there are a number of similar vacancies in some of Four Seasons’ other nearby homes, and that there are sufficient places in the local care market for any families/relatives that may prefer an alternative provider.”