Decision details

Consideration was given to Think Local Act Personal - A National Strategy for Local Implementation.

Putting People First was issued in November 2007 and articulated the shared ambition to put people first, through a radical reform of public services, enabling people to live their own lives as they wished, confident that services were of high quality, were safe and promoted their own individual needs for independence, well-being and dignity.

Putting People First established the collaboration between central and local government, the sector's professional leadership, providers and the regulator.  It set out the shared aims and values which guided the transformation of adult social care, and recognised that the sector had to work across agendas, with users and carers, to transform people’s experience of local support and services.

Cheshire East Council had pursued the key approaches in Putting People First and had been a leader in developing personalisation and preventative approaches to the delivery of effective social care in the community.

Twenty-four leading national organisations, including the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), umbrella bodies that represented a large number of providers from the private, independent, voluntary and community sectors, had endorsed the document.

RESOLVED

1. That the issue of TLAP be noted and CEC support for the approach contained within it be affirmed.

2. That support for a personalised approach to the delivery of publicly funded care, in line with the Council’s Corporate Objective 1-To give the people of Cheshire East more choice and control around services and resources be reaffirmed, and the Personalisation Principles in Appendix 2 of the report be noted.

3. Thatit be recognized that the creation of an affordable social care system is dependent upon the development of preventative services delivered locally, most often by organizations from all sectors as well as the Council itself.

4. That it be noted that most people accessing care in its area are not funded by the Council and that there is a requirement for the Director of Adults, Community, Health and Wellbeing to identify a strategy to provide advice, information and support to the wider public including self funders and their carers, to maximize independence and minimize reliance of Council funded-care.

5. That the development of an on-line citizen portal or information gateway, with a resource directory, recognizing the investment required to maintain this initiative, with the initial capital investment funded as part of the Department of Health funded Common Assessment Framework pathfinder project and the ongoing maintenance funded within existing Adults revenue budgets, be noted and supported.