Foreword
Our Adult Social Care Strategy supports and helps deliver our Council Plan priority of being a county where all people can live their best lives; where communities and individuals are supported to live safely, healthily, happily and independently.
We want the people we support and work with to be safe, supported and satisfied and this is what we aim to achieve through delivery of this strategy.
Social care is an important part of the wellbeing of our society; good social care enables people to live the lives they want to lead, where they want, which for most people, is in their own homes. We offer advice and information to residents of Warwickshire to enable them to stay well and for those that are eligible and need support we use a strength-based, person-centred approach, which is graduated to meet different levels of need. This means, we start with what people can do, and build on their strengths and their networks, making the best use of local community assets. We work in collaboration with customers, carers, the NHS, district and borough councils, the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector, care providers and other partners to enable effective support for people using social care.
This Adult Social Care Strategy sets out our key priority outcomes for the next five years so that we can meet the challenges ahead and continue to support Warwickshire residents with social care needs to live their best lives. This strategy outlines where we will focus our energies and how we will work and join with others to address challenges and deliver improvements in our offer to residents.
The voices and experiences of residents with social care needs, their families/carers, our staff, and our social care providers have played a hugely important role in shaping this strategy and it’s content. We have engaged with over 500 people/providers/organisations to seek their views on what is important to shape our strategy.