What is happening to social care and support in Norfolk? James Bullion

What is happening to social care and support in Norfolk?

‘Working with People to achieve their potential and to build strong communities.’
Health and Well-being approach
A prevention approach is ‘wider than care’, across age groups - using culture, leisure, learning, housing, employment, safeguarding and safety services as a means of improving individual well-being and stronger communities

‘..a Big Society approach to social care, in which care is transformed not by looking to the state, but to active citizens and strong communities. The role of local authorities, with partners such as community groups, is to establish the conditions in which ‘the big society can flourish’ through ‘stimulating’, ‘inspiring’ and ‘unlocking’ the potential of communities and neighbourhoods, particularly in areas where social networks are poorly developed through deprivation or rural geography..’

A related priority is ‘a changing offer’ from a ‘plurality’ of providers:
small-scale voluntary and independent sector ‘microproviders’ and social enterprises provide community-based, affordable and niche support to individuals or small groups
larger providers are encouraged to offer more flexible community options
care homes will be increasingly operate as community facilities.

Promoting health, wellbeing, social involvement and access to information in local areas across the authority through ‘neighbourliness’, informal resident collaboration, and running local services.
The first response to social care needs to be met by the voluntary and community sector.
Councils to focus on high-end, complex cases and statutory duties as well as encouraging and enabling the network on an authority-wide basis.