A council report outlining plans for short breaks offered to adults with disabilities has been criticised for being “convoluted and difficult to understand”.

Last month Bucks County Council (BCC) announced plans to overhaul the “unsustainable” service, admitting it is difficult to manage demand for overnight stays in the face of limited funds.

A consultation into how the services are being delivered within adult and children's social care is set to run until August 10.

BCC’s health and adult social care select committee was updated on the consultation yesterday morning (July 24) – prompting councillor Bill Bendyshe-Brown to question the readability of the report.

He said: “It is quite a difficult document to read. The strategy could be written in far plainer English.

“We are in a situation where some of it is convoluted, quite difficult to understand, it is quite difficult to bring the threads together. How can we adjust the strategy to make it much more readable?

“We should be trying to make it much easier to read.”

Director of joint commissioning at BCC and author of the report, Jane Bowie, said she had received help from the council’s communications team to try and make the information as accessible as possible.

She added that information sessions may be held for those affected by the changes to help shed more light on the plans.

She said: “One of the things we have looked at doing is holding sessions so that rather than people just reading the strategy, they get the opportunity to come and discuss it with us about it.

“We did write this with colleagues, with communications, with people who provide advocacy for services, so we looked to see if we could make it accessible for people.

“I take the comments that we have got, I think what we wanted to do was enable people to approach it and be an active part of that, and we did look at having sessions for people.”

The report has been published on BCC’s website - https://democracy.buckscc.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=118216