Adult social care early invention and prevention

• South Tyneside has an existing active voluntary sector with more than 2,000 independent voluntary and community organisations established for charitable, social, community or environmental benefit, rather than for profit that provide a range of services to the local community.
• The Voluntary community third sector provides a wide variety of support services including a universal information and advice offer, peer support, social groups, improving independent living skills such as financial management.
• More recently the council and its partners have been working together with South Tyneside Council for Voluntary Services to start considering the future of the third sector market place including how to develop and supplement current community opportunities, identify and reduce overlap, align the sector priorities with the priorities of the statutory services and ensuring consistent and robust monitoring arrangements are in place.

The list below highlights some of the assets commissioned by the local authority. See Figure 5 Adult Social Care - Primary and Secondary Prevention JSNAA

• This list is far from exhaustive and numerous other services and providers support people of the borough. Community resources are not limited to traditional disability related commissioned services but the wider community assets that have a positive impact on people effectiveness to self care, stay healthy and well and improve social isolation.
• The borough has a number of sports and leisure facilities, parks
• Given adult social care focuses heavily on health and wellbeing and empowering individuals to have full control of the resources available to them it is also important to map community assets that are available to all such as leisure, social and community opportunities and ensure, wherever possible through local area coordination, care navigation that all such resources are fully utilised.