Decision details

Proposed decision: To adopt the Making a Difference Every Day Our Strategy for Adult Social Care in Kent 2022 to 2027; delegate authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health to refresh and/or make revisions as appropriate during the lifetime of the strategy and

delegate authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health to take relevant actions, including but not limited to finalising the terms of and entering into required contract or other legal agreements, as necessary to implement the objectives of the Strategy.

Reason for the decision: The existing Strategy comes to an end in December 2021 and it is recognised that there is a need to set a new strategic direction for Adult Social Care which better responds to the changing expectations of the people we support and the operating environment. This Strategy sets out the vision and ambitions for how adult social care plans to make changes, working with the people we support, their carers and our partners to develop our new Strategy as the bedrock for turning these ambitions into reality. Our person-focused vision and Strategy summarises how we plan to make changes over the coming years to put the person first, improve all the time and measure what matters.

Therefore, it is important to set a renewed strategic direction for Adult Social Care, so that staff can understand the value and reasons for continuous improvement in Kent, based on the lasting principles of Practice, Innovation and Meaningful Measures. The Strategy will help adult social care to move away from a process-driven approach to being a more personal and accessible ‘new ways of working model’ for the people we support, and by improving their experience of adult social care and the wider system and will provide the right environment for many people within the directorate with fantastic ideas, and the opportunity to put them into practice.

It will also help us to demonstrate our renewed commitment to addressing equality, diversity and inclusion issues in both our practice and in decision making.

As Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, I agree to:

a) ADOPT the Making A Difference Every Day – Our Strategy for Adult Social Care in Kent 2022 to 2027;

b) DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health to refresh and/or make revisions as appropriate during the lifetime of the strategy; and

c) DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health to take relevant actions, including but not limited to finalising the terms of and entering into required contract or other legal agreements, as necessary to implement the objectives of the strategy.