Transforming Adult Social Care

Nationally Local Authorities are responding to the government’s “Putting People First” agenda which sets out a vision and commitment to develop a more personalised approach to social care. Individuals who need support from Council’s should experience a reactive system that enables maximum choice and control with tailored support to meet their needs and goals.

In response to this Reading Borough Council’s Transforming Community Care Programme is focussed on radically rethinking the way we deliver care services to enable people to live their lives as they wish, confident that services are of high quality and are safe.

The picture below highlights how the projects in the Transforming programme fit together and how the system might work for you:

We are one year into our Transforming Community Care Programme and have been focusing on the following areas:

• Reading's Adult Contact Team: One front door to manage all new enquiries efficiently ensuring the caller receives as much information and support in the first phone call as possible.
• Reablement:  Reading aims to achieve a full Joint Intermediate Care and Reablement Service that helps older people and people with disabilities, through a range of short term rehabilitative services, to maximise their potential for independent living.
• Self Directed Support: The Self-Directed Support project focuses on encouraging people to have more choice & control of the support they need to live their life as they choose.
• User Involvement & Consultation: With all the planned changes in Reading we recognise the importance of involving people who use services in the discussions about how services will look in the future. As a result a User & Carers forum has been established to directly feed into the Transforming Community Care Programme.