Day Centres and Respite Care
Day Centres
We provide in house day services based in seven day centres across Pembrokeshire.
Initial contact is made through PCC contact centre on 01437 764551 & referrals will be directed to applicable resource teams.
When are the Day Centres open?
What do the Day Centres provide?
Where are the Day Centres?
The seven day centres are:
- Meadow Park , Haverfordwest
- Havenhurst, Milford Haven
- Wintern, Goodwick
- Cleddau Reach Day Unit, Pembroke Dock (Health managed day centre)
- Tenby
- Bro Preseli, Crymych
- Lee Davis, Narberth
When are the Day Centres open?
The service operates a programme of activities across the week in each locality. The service does not operate on designated staff training days and excludes bank holidays.
What do the Day Centres Provide?
The Day Centres provide a day service for older people, people diagnosed with dementia and adults who have a learning disability that live in the community. The day centre provides support to people who need extra assistance to enable them to maintain their independence.
The purpose of Day Centres is to provide a service that:
- Values & respects people as individuals
- Promotes well-being
- Supports & enables people to maximise independence
- Supports people to make decisions about the services they receive
- Allows carers to have valuable time away from their caring responsibilities
The Day Centres provides the following opportunities:
- Healthy living & well–being
- Sports / Leisure & Gentle Exercise
- IT and Digital
- Lunchtime meal & refreshments
- Arts & Crafts
- Cooking & Baking
- Community
- Reminiscing
- Nature / Gardening
Activities take place in our centres we use local community facilities such as leisure centres, local libraries and work with third sector organisations.
How much will it cost?
This depends on the outcome of a financial assessment in order to determine ability to pay.
The day care charge for council owned Day Centres is £32.49 per day.
There is currently a maximum charge of £100 per week for all community-based services.
Where lunches are provided by our in-house catering department they are charged at the current rate of £4.86 per day. Alternative provision is available at some sites and costs vary.
There is an additional charge for some activities.
Transport
People can use their own means of transport to access Day Centres or transport may be provided subject to eligibility & availability. This will be discussed in your assessment.
There is also the option of community transport that could be used to travel to a day centre Social Services Transport - Pembrokeshire County Council (opens in a new window)