Purpose

West Sussex County Council
(WSCC) directly runs six residential care homes: New Tyne, Stanhope
Lodge, Tozer House, Hammonds, Ball Tree Croft and Hobbs Field.
These are part of a wider service, collectively known as Directly
Provided Services (DPS), which also includes the operation of 7 Day
Opportunities sites and the Shared Lives Service.
 
A review of Directly Provided
Services was completed in April 2024 (see Appendix A). The review
identified that there was a need to act as some of the residential
buildings will not continue to be fit for purpose without
significant investment, and not all services are fully aligned with
the strategic direction outlined in the West Sussex County Council
Corporate Plan and the Adult Social Care Strategy,
The Life You Want to Lead. 
 
Therefore, a programme of work
was launched, to review the approach to providing directly provided
residential services in West Sussex. This programme is called
Future Care. It will consider the best approach to take for each
site and those who live there. This report summarises proposals
related to the first of these: New Tyne, which is the only DPS home
that provides residential care for older people with
dementia. 
 
Following a review of this
residential service, the following recommendation is set out for
New Tyne.

Decision

The Cabinet Member for Adults’ Services
has approved ceasing direct provision of residential services at
New Tyne, Durrington Lane, Durrington, Worthing, West Sussex BN13
2TF and declaring the building surplus to operational requirements,
with a full options appraisal regarding future use to be carried
out by the Council’s Assets Team.  
 
 
Following publication, this proposed decision
was called in for scrutiny by the Health and Adult Social Care
Scrutiny Committee at its meeting on 21 November 2025.  The
committee supported ending direct provision of residential services
at New Tyne, Worthing and declaring the building surplus to
operational requirements, with a full options appraisal regarding
future use to be carried out by the Council’s Assets Team and
made recommendations that families were fully supported through
this process and staff were fully supported including looking for
placements.
 
The Committee also recommended that any future
work utilises co-production, and a report be brought back to the
committee to update members on the progress taken on supporting
residents who were moved from New Tyne. The Cabinet Member has
therefore approved the decision with effect from 21 November 2025.
The responses to the committee recommendations will be included in
the agenda for the meeting of the Health
and Adult Social Care Committee on 7 January
2026.