Vision
Our vision is to provide the right care and support to people at the right time in the right place. We want people to live fulfilled lives with support from family and friends within their communities and networks as well as being able to access high-quality, tailored care and support from caring, supportive, and enabling people in a way that suits their values and their lifestyle. You can find out more about our vision in our SE ADASS Narrative.
In the SE region we are committed to:
- reimagining good quality care and support in our neighbourhoods to ensure people stay well and live longer at home, enabling them to lead a good life, placing co-production at the heart of what we do, and giving better support to carers.
- people getting support and advice easily, when they need it, so that crises are avoided
- driving good quality practice and standards influenced by sector led improvement
- preparing well for, and delivering identified improvements following, CQC assessments all as part of our business as usual
- harnessing the potential of digital technology and tech enabled care, and building a flexible sustainable skilled workforce, that is valued and respected to meet future needs
- embracing and connecting communities to promote a strength-based approach seeing people’s contributions as assets through a broader lens of experience, knowledge and skills
- promoting high quality community offers of support that promote a person’s wellbeing physically, mentally, educationally, emotionally, and financially to achieve better outcomes for people
Priorities
The eighteen councils in the region work cooperatively together within a SE ADASS regional programme to lead improvement in adult social care services.
Funding sources include the Department of Health and Social Care, participating councils’ subscriptions and in-kind contributions, and collaboration between Partners in Health and Care, the Better Care Fund, and regional NHS enable improvement activity to be efficient and effective.
The programme focuses on what people and councils can do better together with other partners to deliver our ambition. Our ambition is to provide “the right care and support to people at the right time and in the right place”. We have been involved in a wide range of activities over the 2025/2026 period.
In 2026/27, we are focusing on four priorities and seven priority core enablers, which link with our vision and with ADASS’s priorities nationally.
Priorities and key enablers for 2026/27
| SE ADASS Priorities | SE ADASS Priority Core Enablers |
| – System leadership and transformation in partnership – Assessing needs, social justice and high quality practice – Strategic commissioning and providing support – Unpaid carers | – Workforce planning – Leadership and behaviours – Performance, data, finance and risk – Quality assurance – Digital, AI and Technology – Communications – Equity in experience and outcomes |