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