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”. We have been involved in a wide range of activities over the 2024/2025 period.
To achieve our vision, we have six priority objectives which link with our vision and with ADASS’s priorities nationally.
- Transformation in partnership & scale of change
- Strategic commissioning
- Strategic workforce planning
- Social justice & high quality practice
- Finance & resources challenges
- Digital, data, performance & intelligence
Draft priorities for 2025/26
| Transformation in partnership & scale of change | Strategic commissioning | Strategic workforce planning | Social justice & high quality practice | Finance and resources challenges | Digital, data, performance & intelligence |
| – Support councils’ readiness & outcome of Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment – Work with health partners & people to develop a more preventative neighbourhood-based approach – Better Care Fund (BCF) partnerships focused on outcomes – Lead & implement the wider health and care reform agenda with partners – Support councils embarking on local government reorganisation and devolution | – Prioritise prevention, community services and care closer to home including ‘Home First’ – Strong partnerships and co-production from the planning stage – Joint working with Health for better outcomes, including Continuing Health Care (CHC) – Good quality, accessible and affordable care and support – Market sustainability, intelligence and modelling – Prioritise support for informal carers | – Strategic workforce planning – Recruitment and retention strategies – Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce and in the way we support people – International recruitment – Wellbeing | – Embed voices of lived experience – Prioritise equalities and inclusion – 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 – Promote legal literacy and professional curiosity | – 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 financial challenges – Local government funding reform | – Identify, capture, manage risks and share good practice – Continue to improve the SE data dashboard, implementing new metrics and associated tools to support improved performance, benchmarking, analysis and reporting – Support and promote innovation and peer learning amongst councils as they develop new digital operating models and explore AI and other technology-enabled care (TEC) solutions |