The council’s overall direction for adult social care is built on three core strategies named ‘Ageing Well’, ‘Caring Well’, and ‘Living Well’(External link), setting out priorities over the next five years. The three strategies were co-designed with people who use services and their friends and families. They focus on how the council will support people across the city, whether they are older people, those with a care and support need with learning disabilities, mental health challenges, autism, living with additional physical or sensory difficulty, or the friends and family of people with additional needs.
A Partnership group has been formed to manage the development, delivery, and monitoring of the yearly action plans for each strategy. This will build on the work of the previous year and in reaction to emerging needs and trends.
All action plans contain a desire to further develop co-production meaning there will continue to be multiple methods for residents to be a part of the work going forward. Whether via membership of the partnership group, through focused pieces of work on specific activities or design, or by engagement through the website and social media.
We know how busy people are and how precious your time is; therefore, we want to try to do this in multiple ways to ensure we get as much feedback from carers as is possible in as convenient a way as possible.
The survey has been separated into different sections, for residents to engage in every month.
https://yoursay.southend.gov.uk/live-well-engagement-page
