Adult & Community Services Business Plan 2007/08
Outcome 2: Improving quality of life
- Access to leisure, social activities and life-long learning and to universal, public and commercial services
- Security at home
- Access to transport and confidence in safety outside the home
Performance Measurement We will assess our progress against this outcome by: |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Ensuring the proportion of carers receiving services to clients receiving services is 17%, maintaining Devon’s performance as a top performing Local Authority (PAF C62). | All Ads |
| Increasing the number of people with a physical disability who are helped to remain living at home from 2094 (December 2006) to 2160 by March 2008, making Devon a top performing Local Authority (PAF C29). | Assistant Director (PD) |
| Introducing a multi agency funding arrangement to expand the delivery of learning and development to safeguarding board partners by 100%. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Increase the number of new enquiries received by the Home Improvement Agency to 10,000 by the end of 2007/08 and increase the number of people for whom all works were completed and continued to live independently at home to 5,933 by the end of 2007/08. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
Delivering the Outcome in 2007/08 – Front Line Services To achieve this outcome we will: |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Improve home safety, home environments and home fuel efficiency, reduce risk of falls, by increasing the awareness and use of the Devon wide Home Improvement Agency service by staff and the public. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Promote individuals independence and facilitate cost effective care packages by raising awareness and use of Telecare and Telehealth by staff and the public. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Further develop travel training and ensure all eligible people with a learning disability have travel passes. | Assistant Director (LD) |
| Promote social inclusion by opening additional community hubs and developing and improving existing hubs as alternatives to day centres for people with learning disabilities. | Assistant Director (LD) |
| Provide Personal Safety training for adults with learning disabilities. | Assistant Director (LD) |
| Increase use of services to support carers through improved signposting to Devon Carers Link membership, enabling access to Take a Break home based breaks (sitting) services and Flexible Breaks Grant. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Ensure that service uses have greater access to mainstream services and facilities such as libraries and leisure facilities through the delivery of the Learning Disability Recovery Programme. | Assistant Director (LD) |
Delivering the Outcome in 2007/08 – Planning and Support Services We will support implementation by: |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Promoting individuals independence and facilitate cost effective care packages by coordinating the delivery of the Devon Telecare Strategy through the Supporting People programme. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Enabling individuals choice and independence and improve efficiency and effectiveness of services arranged by undertaking a review of the enabling service and housing support services. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Improving efficiency and effectiveness of the workforce by simplifying the Disabled Facilities Grant process with District Councils. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Simplifying and integrating the assessment process for staff and users and carers in relation to care and housing support services. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Ensuring people who are vulnerable and at risk of abuse can have confidence in the arrangements for the oversight of the policies, processes and working arrangements to support them through the Establishment of a Devon wide “Safeguarding Adults Board” and the deployment of specialist staff in local teams | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Improving services for carers by developing a commissioning strategy for carers breaks, including emergency respite and contingency planning. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
| Ensuring the transport needs of vulnerable adults are addressed and outcomes are communicated by contributing to the partnership approach for transport and safer communities work in Devon. | Assistant Director (SP&C) |
