A new vision for adult care services

Providing quality social care that promotes wellbeing and ensures the best possible outcomes for people is becoming ever more challenging. Government funding has been falling while the population is growing and people are living longer with more complex conditions. This is happening in a period of rapid social, economic and technological change bringing new problems alongside new opportunities.

Doing our best for people in these challenging times means responding to people’s needs differently.

We are developing a new vision for North Somerset Adult Care services. In a nutshell we want to promote wellbeing by helping people in North Somerset to be as independent as possible for as long as possible. Now we want to know what residents think of our vision.

We have identified four levels of independence shown in the diagram. For each level we will provide a different offer, aiming to maintain the person at the lowest level as possible, and if their needs increase, to help them to quickly return to a lower level of support if possible.

The full document, which has been published on the Council’s website for consultation, provides more detail about what they mean by maximising independence and what their offer to residents will be in the future.

The consultation period will run from 29^th January to 23^rd March.

Please go to the following link on the council’s Econsult site where you can have your say on the documents: www.n-somerset.gov.uk/scv.

If you are an organisation or group you can ask for an officer from the council to come and hear your views directly during the consultation period. If you want to do this, or just want to send in your own thoughts directly, please contact Alun Davies alun.davies@n-somerset.gov.uk or on 01275 884033.

Please also contact Alun if you require the vision in a different format.