Find out how we are supporting projects across health, housing and adult social care - part of the Local Account Summary.
During 2023/24, our strategic commissioning team has continued to deliver against the wide-ranging programme of work set out in the Torbay Adult Social Care Market Transformation Blueprint to support commissioning projects across health, housing and adult social care. This has included the Big Plan learning disability strategy.
The team has supported the ongoing development of the adult social care co-produced learning disability and autism partnership boards. These have enabled people with experience of our services, and their carers to be recognised as ambassadors in the strategic direction and governance of adult social care, and as a result we have seen an increase in ambassadors at routine governance meetings with both health and social care senior managers.
This year the team led on or supported an increasingly demanding stream of grant funding programmes from central government, including the market sustainability and improvement fund, the accelerated reform fund, and the better care fund. The team has provided a strategic market view that supports quality assurance workstreams such as adult safeguarding, provider quality assurance and individual packages of care that require support with services outside of adult social care.
Finally, the team has continued to directly procure and support key infrastructure services, including the joint loan and equipment service, Healthwatch Devon, Citizens’ Advice and various specialist advocacy services, including specialist support for the partnership board ambassadors.