- Develop and enhance adult social care support in local neighbourhood areas, bringing care and support closer to home
- Invest in the development of voluntary and community enterprises, and align micro-provision with broader core provision of care at home
- Promote quality and diversity in the provision of local services, and re-commission models of care to ensure services are localised, integrated, sustainable and best meet the changing needs of our population
- Work in partnership with our care provider market to ensure there are sufficient nursing places available to meet future demand, particularly for people living with dementia and other cognitive impairments
- Ensure people with care and support needs are assessed and reviewed in a timely and effective way, with their care and support reflecting their right to choice and control, and building on their strengths and assets
- Promote direct payment options and improve the processes for doing so, enabling people to maximise their choice and control about how to meet their care and support needs
- Work in partnership to prevent avoidable admissions to hospital, and support people to return home from hospital as soon as they are ready to do so
- Develop and deliver high-quality reablement services, available to all, to support people to maximise their potential and return to their optimal independence
- Continue to focus on ensuring safety, preventing abuse and neglect and identifying risk early through effective local safeguarding arrangements
- Work with young people, their families and other involved services towards maximising their independence, drawing on young people’s own aspirations for inclusion, education, employment and quality of life as part of ‘preparing for adulthood’ and effective transitional safeguarding
- Improve the way people in Somerset receive support with their mental health
- Support individuals with Learning Disabilities to live and/or work more independently within their community
- Enhance our ability to source suitable, timely care and support
