Bid to delay care homes verdict fails.

(From Carmarthen Journal)

AN attempt to delay a controversial decision about the future of Carmarthenshire Council's care homes has been rejected by authority chiefs.

A joint meeting of the council's housing and health and social care committees had recommended implementation of the plan to restructure social care -- which would see several residential care homes close -- must wait until a Welsh Assembly committee investigation into social care is completed in November.

But the council's executive board rejected that.

Council deputy leader Kevin Madge believed the commission would not produce the politically sensitive report six months before next …