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
- being in a strong position and prepared for the new CQC assurance framework
- 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 peoples’ 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”.
To achieve our vision, we have identified six priority objectives which link with our vision and with ADASS’s priorities nationally.
- Reform & transformation in partnership
- Strategic commissioning
- Strategic workforce planning
- Social justice & high quality practice
- Finance & resources
- Digital, data & intelligence
| Reform & transformation in partnership | Strategic commissioning | Strategic workforce planning | Social justice & high quality practice | Finance and resources | Digital, data, performance & intelligence |
| – Support councils’ readiness & outcome of Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment – Work with health partners & people to develop place-based care & support through Integrated Care Systems – Better Care Fund (BCF) partnerships focused on outcomes – Comply with legislative changes – Lead & implement the wider health and care reform agenda with partners | – Strong partnerships and co-production approaches from the planning stage – Good quality accessible and affordable care and support – Prioritise prevention, community and ‘Home First’ – Market intelligence and modelling – Prioritise support for informal carers | – Recruitment and retention – Strategic workforce planning – Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce and in the way we support people – International recruitment – Wellbeing | – Embed voices of lived experience – Prioritise inequalities and exclusion – High quality practice through leadership of professional peer support networks: Principal Social Workers, Principal Occupational Therapists, Safeguarding, Carers, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Neurodiversity | – Share financial pressures planning – Share learning and support councils with high quality finance data, link councils into sources of support to manage cost pressures, prepare for future charging reforms and other financial challenges | – Identify, capture, manage risks and share good practice – Develop data dashboard and associated tools to support improved performance, benchmarking, analysis and reporting – Support councils as they develop new digital operating models, eg self assessments and technology-enabled care |