Adult Social Care Market Position Statement
Messages for providers who provide care and support to adults
The Council is committed to working closely with providers, stakeholders, and people who access our services to ensure engagement, particularly in relation to shaping the market together, is meaningful, timely and appropriate.
Our engagement going forward will include:
- regular meetings with providers that will be specific to key market sectors, for example, residential care, home care, day opportunities
- reciprocal meetings to allow feedback from providers and allow sharing of information and ideas relevant to the market and enabling current and new providers to plan their future business more clearly
- a Lived Experience Coordinator to understand the voice of people accessing our services, to help shape and improve future services, and providing feedback to the market
- a 'Making It Real Board' board to help shape services, which is made up of people with lived experience who have, or will, access Council adults and health services
- separate but specific engagement where there are specific challenges in a geographical area or in a particular sector of the market, to ensure 'place' and its nuances are recognised
- partnership meetings with people with learning disabilities and people with autism to enable us to listen and consider their views to help influence service development
- consultation with other groups and partnership boards where appropriate
For 2023, the Council's future planning and strategic vision in relation to Adult Social Care and support services will focus on several key priority areas.
Theme | Key Message |
|---|---|
Prevention | To develop, in partnership with local organisations, volunteering and social enterprise opportunities that target loneliness in the community |
Older people | Develop a home care offer that integrates the latest innovation in digital technology to deliver an effective and sustainable model of home care support |
To work with local providers to improve the consistency of the offer in terms of CQC ratings for both residential and home care | |
To work with the care home market to manage the supply of care home placements that will meet anticipated demand but also allow for a sustainable market across residential / nursing care | |
Accommodation | To share and implement the conclusions from the Specialist Market Housing Assessment 2022, including development of the Extra Care offer across Stockton-on-Tees for older people, people with dementia and adults and older people with learning disabilities |
Learning disabilities | To ensure the service offer for young people transitioning into Adult Social Care at the age of 18 onwards meets future demand in terms of capacity and suitability |
Look at opportunities to support people back into the Borough where appropriate, developing alternative models of care and accommodation including residential care, Extra Care, and models of supported accommodation | |
Day opportunities | Ensure the current market, including services run by the Council, commissioned directly, or supported through a Direct Payment offer the right support in the right location to meet future demand and that people are, where appropriate, enabled to live independent lives |
Mental health | Work with the market to ensure there is sufficient provision to support people back to the Borough where they have been placed out of area due to lack of capacity, including people requiring mental health nursing placements and complex residential care |
Autism | To ensure the service offer for young people transitioning into Adult Social Care at the age of 18 onwards meets future demand in terms of capacity and suitability |
Carers | Through market engagement and research, develop services for carers who are underrepresented within current services to ensure effective access to health and support and opportunities to provide appropriate support in their caring role |
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