MOVE TO CLOSE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SLAMMED

DENBIGHSHIRE Council has been slammed over proposals to close a Rhyl social enterprise employing disabled people.

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Councillors were called to a behind-closed-doors “workshop” and presentation on the Cefndy Healthcare social enterprise on Tuesday ahead of a cabinet meeting on September 23.

The organisation, based on Cefndy Road, is branded as creating “meaningful, well-paid employment” for disabled people “encouraging and training its staff to maximise their potential’. Cefndy Healthcare started in 1976 as “Cefndy Enterprises” as part of the then Clwyd County Council. Employing 35 staff, both physically able and disabled, the social enterprise offers full manufacturing from raw steel components, bending, welding, pressing, powder coating, assembly, upholstery to final dispatch. But backbenchers yesterday learnt of the plans to close the scheme, leaving some furious.