The price of the meals on wheels service in Rhondda Cynon Taf could be set to increase. The proposal for the community meals service, which the council has consulted on and which will go before cabinet for approval on Monday, January 23, is to reorganise the existing internal service and provide a hot/frozen community meal home delivery service with increased service charges which reduces the council subsidy per meal.
It would involve a price increase of 50p from £4.05 to £4.55 and would require fewer members of staff to deliver the service with a forecast annual saving of £427,000. The council has considered the following four options for the future of the service:
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