Adult Social Care - Ageing well, and learning to live well

"Ageing well, Living Well" sets out the plans which will lead to us becoming an excellent provider of adult social care services.  It recognises that we will not achieve excellence for current or future generations with the existing service arrangements and workforce.

The intention is to create a service framework that delivers a vision of excellence and addresses the needs of the city's adult population in an affordable and sustainable way.

It will help meet the needs of more vulnerable older people - people with critical and substantial care needs.  It will create a framework for modernising services and for working more effectively with health partners, communities and the voluntary sector for the next 10 years.  Priorities include:

• recognising the vital role that older people play economically, socially and politically in the city and improve the way older people take part in shaping policies, services and training of social care staff, carers and volunteers;
• encouraging healthy lifestyles and promoting independence;
• breaking down the barriers to employment, occupation opportunities and volunteering;
• joined up partnership approach to how services are delivered and ensure integration of key services such as health, housing, social care, transport, leisure and learning; and
• making sure specialist services are responsive, flexible, integrated and of high quality.

Adult Social Care Workforce Planning

The vision of the workforce in 2010 is of a highly skilled, valued and accountable workforce drawn from all sections of the community.  This trained and trusted workforce will provide imaginative and innovative services, looking at individuals in their personal, family and community context.  Alongside carers and volunteers, the workforce will make a positive difference, contributing to peoples' health, happiness and wellbeing.

The Adult Social Care Workforce Development Plan sets out objectives for how the current and future workforce is made up. This includes:

• jobs;
• skills;
• knowledge;
• competencies; and
• behaviours;

needed in order to achieve targets and meet the priorities mentioned above.

Workforce Development

Links to this page will provide an overview of how we aim to support the social care workforce to deliver excellence that is valued by you...our customers.

The Learning and Development team will invest in the region of £3 million over the next three years to make sure that the social care workforce can meet the needs of the local community today and in the future.  A comprehensive training plan delivers approximately 6,500 training places to the statutory social care workforce each year.  Through working in partnership with health, housing and the private, voluntary and independent sector the team also works to develop the skills of the wider social care workforce to meet the needs of the community.