Council and democracy

Adult Care Services and the Corporate Plan

The Adult Care Services plan is informed, in part, by a number of the county council’s corporate challenges, outlined in the corporate plan. (For full details see the HCC Corporate Plan link on the right of this page.) Outlined below are the challenges most relevant to Adult Care Services and the ways in which we intend to meet them:

To support the independence of the growing number of older people

We will do this by:

• increasing the number of older people helped to live at home
• increasing the amount of intermediate care provision available across the county in partnership with health
• further increasing the number of direct payments made and offer individual budgets, in order to enhance quality of life

To help people feel safe and secure

We will do this by:

• reducing anti-social behaviour and the fear of crime
• reducing the harmful effects of substance misuse and through this, reducing the crimes associated with such misuse (acquisitive crime) affecting our communities
• tackling alcohol misuse

To maximise efficiency savings to help keep council tax at an acceptable level

We aim to:

• identify new, innovative and individualised approaches to providing care that are more efficient and promote greater independence
• review, scrutinise and challenge our current services and the methods we use to provide these services