Supporting our carers
We recognise the vital role that carers play across Lincolnshire. We will collaborate with partners and communities to support carers to continue the valuable contributions that they make to the lives of others and to enable them to live their own lives too. This will include working with health partners to enhance family support and services for carers, including short term breaks to avoid breakdown in family arrangements, which can lead to increased demand for supported living services.
Supporting you when you need it
We will prioritise early intervention, preventing crises before they arise, and embedding an approach that draws on people’s strengths, their relationships and what is going on in their local communities to help them live longer, healthier, independent lives. Through our family hubs, we will provide a lifeline for many parents and bring together early learning opportunities and access to health care, so young children have the very best start in life. We will establish new options to support adults to reduce the need for residential care, enabling people to live in their community where appropriate.
Giving children and young people the best opportunities
We want all children and young people to be supported in effective education. Through collaboration, we will support the achievement of strong results and enable all students to access a high-quality education. For children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and other needs, the council will work in partnership to promote inclusion in mainstream education where possible, helping everyone to get a fulfilling and positive educational experience. We will invest in mainstream specialist hubs to support pupils close to their community. We will strengthen our support to children in need of early help and protection through implementing the national reforms, building on our work as National Pathfinder.
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
We will support people in difficulty, to ensure they receive help at the earliest opportunity and work with families, to enable them to stay together wherever possible. We will encourage more people to become foster carers so Lincolnshire children who need care are able to live in a family home in their community. We will work with our health, voluntary sector and district council colleagues to enable more people to live independently in their home of choice, achieved in part by continuing to develop our extra care and supported accommodation services as an alternative to 24/7 care. Working with the NHS, we will improve availability of reablement and intermediate care services to help people to recover from a hospital stay and, wherever possible prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital or 24/7 care and develop a community-based prevention service for working age adults with mental health needs.
Promoting your health and wellbeing
We will work with our district councils, local health services and the community and voluntary sector to encourage everyone in the community to take up opportunities to be active, with an increased emphasis on improving the physical and mental health, and wellbeing of the county’s communities.
Delivering essential care that is built around you
Working with the NHS, we will improve availability of reablement and intermediate care services to help people to recover from a hospital stay and, wherever possible, prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital or 24 hours, seven days a week care, as well as developing a community-based prevention service for working age adults with mental health needs