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not transferred to the new Borough under the London Reorganisation
arrangements. The Welfare Services Sub-Committee has
accepted financial responsibility for the cost of maintenance of 48
Bromley residents who were accommodated by other authorities at
31st March, 1966. Similarly, 10 men and 36 women were provided
with residential care by this authority on behalf of other authorities.
17. Accommodation for various needs is provided throughout the
country by voluntary organisations. Some of this accommodation
is for the elderly and complements that provided by local
authorities. It is often preferred because of religious or other
affiliations. Other accommodation, however, provides for the
special needs of those with various disabilities, e.g. epilepsy,
spasticity, blindness, deafness. For these varying reasons, financial
responsibility has been accepted for 190 residents in voluntary
homes of many kinds and dispersed widely throughout the country.
Ten-Year Programme—Residential Care
18. One of the tasks to be faced in the first year was the production
of a Ten Year Plan for the development of the Welfare Services.
For local authorities outside the London area the information
supplied to the Ministry of Health was a review of plans submitted
in 1963 but for the London Boroughs this was a new exercise.
19. The plan approved by the Committee envisages an increase
in the number of places available for residential care to 629 by
1976. It is anticipated that a further 188 residents will be accommodated
in voluntary homes in the Borough. This figure, which
can be adjusted as further reviews take place and as more experience
is gained of the needs in the Borough, is made up by the provision
of new homes in the areas of St. Pauls Cray, Penge, Bromley,
Beckenham and Chislehurst which, together, will provide an additional
205 places, but 45 places at Orpington Hospital will be
vacated in this period. It is anticipated that voluntary and private
homes in the area will serve local needs of an estimated 248 places.