5807 - The provision of Care Act 2014 duties as Trusted Partners

The Pathways alliance contract delegates Care Act duties including: • The completion of Care Act assessments on behalf of the London Borough of Bexley for people with readily understood care and support needs, and their carers

• The completion of Care Act reviews on behalf of the London Borough of Bexley for people with care and support needs, and their carers. This includes a planned yearly review and unplanned reviews. Trusted Partner will become allocated named workers to a selection of Bexley residents. With the ASC pathways approach founded on relationships a review of a person's care and support needs must be completed by the Trusted Partner who knows the person best, or the Trusted Partner chosen by the individual. Each person will have a named worker they can go to for support and guidance, or if things are changing. The named worker will be a Trusted Partner, able to complete assessments and will also be responsible for completing a planned yearly review or unplanned review of the person.

• The Contractors, will provide information, advice and guidance (IAG) to people needing adult social care support, on care and support options, financial assessment, promoting health and wellbeing, community resources and groups, benefits, transport etc

The London Borough of Bexley want people in Bexley to be able to make their own informed choices to live independent, healthy lives, remaining in their own homes for as long as possible. To achieve this, we will work together with local people and communities to explore a variety of ways to meet care and support needs. We will provide information, guidance and advice that helps people to make the best-informed choices for themselves and their families. Adult social care in Bexley is committed to shaping the way services are delivered to embed these priorities, ensuring resident are able to access good quality services quickly and appropriately, preventing their needs from escalating and so avoiding more expensive support over the longer term. We want every person with care and support needs has choice and control on how their needs are met, recognising how important this is in supporting people to live the life they want. We know that many people live independent lives with little or no Social Care support; however, if people do require care and support, we want people to:

a) Have care and support that enables them to live as they want to b) Be in control of planning their own care and support with additional help as required by those who know and care about them c) Have needs met effectively, efficiently and quickly d) Facilitate proactive and preventative care support rather than reactive and crisis care.