Adult Social Care Vision
Adult Social Care supports people aged 18 and over who have care and support needs as a result of a disability or an illness. Support is also provided to carers who spend time providing necessary care to someone else. We continue to work in accordance with our primary legislation, the Care Act (2014) and the required changes to practice and policy set out by the Act. The delivery of Adult Social Care in Coventry, as embodied in our vision is that we focus on approaches that promote well-being and independence to prevent, reduce or delay the need for long term support and to enable people to achieve their outcomes. In performance terms this means that we would expect to see a relatively smaller number of people in receipt of ongoing social care, and where ongoing social care is required that this is mainly provided in people’s own homes. We would also expect that the short-term services we have in place to enable people to be independent are successful in reducing demand for ongoing Adult Social Care.
Adult Social Care vision
To enable people in most need to live independent and fulfilled lives with stronger networks and personalised support.
Strategy
Provide support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people.
- Adults and carers at the heart of everything we do: People we work with are involved as equal partners in planning and decision-making.
- High quality, person centred and effective support: We deliver high quality, person centred effective care and support to service users, their carers and families. Empowering people with the right support, at the right time in the right way using the resources that are available to them.
- Reflective and responsive to change: The support we provide reflects and responds to the changing needs of Coventry's diverse population of adults and older people.
- Outcome driven and meaningful: Support is outcome driven and we are clear about the impact we are having on the people we support.
- Support around people and their families: People are supported to live at home wherever possible. When people cannot live at home they will be supported to live in the most appropriate and least intrusive alternate setting.
- Effective enablement and prevention and wellbeing: We provide support to people in cost-effective ways to enable them to reach or regain their maximum potential so that they can do as much as possible for themselves.
- Mature partnerships: Our partnerships are mature, trusting and effective at both a strategic and operational level. In all our work with partners, the focus remains on the people that need our support.
- Committed workforce: Our workforce is stable, skilled motivated and committed to delivering excellent services. They feel supported to make decisions, assess and manage risk and work with people to achieve their outcomes.
- Innovative: We will develop ways of supporting people and use innovation as a key way to deliver good outcomes for people and manage our resources.
- High performing: The outcomes we achieve for adults and older people compare favourably with similar local authorities. We make an active contribution to the delivery of the Council Plan.