Consultation on changing the way we deliver and organise adult social care in Barnet
This consultation has now closed.
Overview
Across the country, adult social care is under growing pressure. The amount of money available for councils to spend has reduced and will continue to reduce over the coming years. There is also growing demand for adult social care services. To respond to these challenges, the council needs to find more and better ways to help people to stay healthy and well, to regain their independence after illness or injury, and to make greater use of the support that their family, friends and the local community can give them.
The council has already discussed a range of options with stakeholders to help develop the proposals outlined in this consultation. We are now seeking your view on:
a new way of delivering adult social care in Barnet that will help people to stay well, to recover quickly from illness or injury, and to draw upon the support that their family, friends and the local community can give them; and
- a new way of organising our adult social care services, that supports the new way in which we want to deliver these services. We have short listed three potential options for how we organise the service:
- Option A - keep the adult social care service within the council
- Option B - create a shared service with one or more local NHS organisations
- Option C - establishing a public service mutual
More detail about each of these options is contained in the consultation document.
We want to hear the views of Barnet residents, service users, carers, representatives of the Voluntary and Community Sector, service providers and other interested stakeholders. Your feedback and ideas will help inform analysis of potential options and recommendations to the Adults and Safeguarding Committee in September 2016.
You can read further information on the new proposals in full in the consultation document here.
This consultation will play an important part in shaping our plans for securing the future of adult social care. We want to gather as many views as possible to ensure that service provision best meets the needs of service users.
Over the last year we have already engaged with some key stakeholder groups including holding meetings and workshops with people who use adult social care services, their carers, Adults and Communities Delivery Unit staff, local community and voluntary sector groups and service providers.
Through these sessions the proposals contained in this consultation have been developed, tested and refined. More detail about the input from stakeholders and the development of the proposals can be found in the Strategic Outline Case (which was considered by Adults and Safeguarding Committee in November 2015) and in the Outline Business Case (considered by Adults and Safeguarding Committee in March 2016).
We now want to give everyone the opportunity to have their say on the proposals, in particular we want to hear your views on:
the proposal for a new way of delivering adult social care; and
the three shortlisted options for the way in which adult social care services should be organised.
What happens next
The consultation has now closed.
We would like to thank everyone who took part in the consultation, without whose valuable input the consultation would not have been possible.
You can see how we have acted on the results under 'We asked, You said, We did'.