Adult social care early invention and prevention
High Level Priorities
Adult Social Care is undergoing an improvement programme to meet the increasing demands on its resources, improve services for its residents and their carers and ensure South Tyneside Council is meeting its statutory responsibilities. This programme has highlighted some key areas of focus -
- Improved quality of services and outcomes for service users
- More effective and efficient processes
- Delivery of financial savings
- Better demand management arrangements
- Sustainable market to deliver effective and efficient services
- Better integration across health and social care
- Quality assurance and performance management framework in place
- Cultural change delivered through clear workforce development strategy
- And finally, Improved use of prevention and early intervention measures