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Creating stronger, healthier communities delivery plan

We will enable our residents, working with partners, to develop strong networks of support and maintain strong communities. We will focus on the most vulnerable in our communities to improve wellbeing and reduce inequality through collaboration between public services, community leaders, residents and voluntary groups.

Outcomes

Effective networks of support in place for residents across universal, targeted and specialist services

How we will achieve it

What we will do to achieve the outcome:

  1. Care Dorset, a new company for delivering care will be in place from October 2022
  2. there will be a plan in place to deliver the Adult Social Care White Paper
  3. a locality model will have been established to deliver early intervention in adult social care
  4. a carers’ strategy will have been developed and implemented

Lead role / service:

  • Executive Director for Adults
  • Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health
  1. The children’s and adults’ commissioning strategy will have been developed and will be implemented
  2. A 0-25 birth to settled adulthood offer will have been established to improve the way we support children and young people as they move from Children’s to Adult services

Lead role / service:

  • Executive Director for Adults and Executive Director for Children
  • Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health
  • Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help
  1. The Children’s Residential Home in Dorchester Road will be open and providing placements for Dorset’s children
  2. The Harbour Service will be delivering outreach and residential provision to young people
  3. accommodation for Dorset’s Care Leavers will be available in Kirtleton Avenue
  4. we will have embedded specialist workers with children’s social workers to operate a single practice model of whole family working by 2025
  5. a new model to support and retain foster carers and improve stability will be established
  6. the 0-5 offer through the provision of family hubs within the community will have been embedded
  7. the council will deliver its SEND capital strategy to deliver over 500 new specialist provision places by2025
  8. The Children’s Plan 2020 – 2023 will have been delivered

Lead role / service

  • Executive Director for Children
  • Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help
  1. the council will have an effective preventative offer
  2. Dorset will be a safer county

Lead role /service

  • Service Manager for Community Safety
  • Portfolio Holder for Housing and Community Safety

Visible, appealing and welcoming spaces for residents to access help and support and rationalisation of existing provision to be fit for purpose and flexible to meet changing needs

How we will achieve it

What we will do to achieve the outcome:

  1. the customer strategy and new approach to responding to residents first contact will be developed

    Lead role / service:
  • Head of Customer Services, Libraries and Archives
  • Portfolio Holder for Culture, Communities and Customer Services
  1. adults’ day services will have been reviewed to improve opportunities for care and support needs 

Lead role / service:

  • Corporate Director for Adult Care
  • Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health

Delivery of best-in-class service provision driving high customer satisfaction whilst delivering best value and a reduction in inequality

How we will achieve it

What we will do to achieve the outcome:

  1. A new library strategy and delivery plan will be published and being implemented

Lead role / service

  • Head of Customer Services, Libraries and Archives
  • Portfolio Holder for Culture, Communities and Customer Services
  1. We will have reviewed all waste routes across the county and optimised in terms of efficiency of service, cost and carbon footprint by 2025
  2. We will have reviewed the leisure services offer and implemented modern delivery models that are sustainable for the future by 2026

Lead role / service

  • Corporate Director for Place Services
  • Portfolio Holder for Culture, Communities and Customer Services

 

Effective relationships between the council, health, statutory partners and the VCSE sector

How we will achieve it

What we will do to achieve the outcome:

  1. We will be an active partner of the Integrated Care System for Dorset and the Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service
  2. By 2026, we will have delivered an effective care framework to enable procurement as part of the ICS, created a platform for local strength and asset-bases approaches and completed a review of adult brokerage systems and processes

Lead role / service

  • Senior Leadership Team
  • Leader of the Council
  1. The Better Life Programme and Greater Partnership Programmes will be successfully concluded

 Lead role / service

  • Executive Director for Adults
  • Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health
  1. The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment will be updated

  Lead role / service

  • Director for Public Health
  1. Voluntary and community sector organisations will be commissioned to provide vital infrastructure support: including information and advice to residents struggling financially, organisation development and strategic voice for the voluntary sector, and management of volunteering opportunities
  2. Grant funding will be provided to a range of voluntary and community sector organisations across Dorset to deliver work that contributes to achieving the Council Plan priorities

Lead role / service

  • Head of Strategic Communications and Engagement
  • Portfolio Holder for Culture, Communities and Customer Services
  1. The ‘Dorset Together’ network of voluntary and community organisations will jointly tackle emerging issues alongside the council and other public sector partners

Lead role / service

  • Business Partner - Communities and Partnerships
  • Portfolio Holder for Culture, Communities and Customer Services
  1.  A new Enabling Communities strategy will be developed, outlining a council-wide approach to how we work with communities

Lead role / service

  • Head of Strategic Communications and Engagement
  • Portfolio Holder for Culture, Communities and Customer Services

Identify and enhance strengths and abilities of local communities

How we will achieve it

What we will do to achieve the outcome:

  1. Community support to reduce food poverty will be embedded and improving the lives of residents.

Lead role / service:

  • Director for Public Health

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