Our All Age Commissioning Strategy outlines our approach to commissioning services in York within the local context including local strategies, plans and financial constraint.
Our ambition is for individuals to live healthy and independent lives and to their full potential. Our commissioned services are aimed to prevent ill health by working on a community level to ensure prevention is at the forefront of what we do.
Our Community Development Model of health promotion will aim to prevent as well as build on community assets when support is required. However, when services are required, they will be of the highest quality and focus on the strengths of individuals and not their weaknesses.
To accomplish this, we must collaborate with those who receive assistance, our providers, other partners, and the general public to understand our population and arrange services that meet needs and assist individuals in achieving their objectives and expand our local market in York.
This strategy sets out the principles which will inform the ways we will work to deliver on our plans and intentions.
The strategy makes it clear that demand will be managed by:
- adopting an asset-based community development approach that prevents, reduces, or diverts demand, ensuring that individuals remain at the centre of families and communities for as long as possible, and encouraging communities to provide additional support for themselves
- promoting the independence and strength-based approach of people who do need a service so that we can minimise the costs over the lifetime of the service
- developing sufficient high-quality provision where the environment and care meets need
We propose that by re-balancing the way care and support is organised we can make the money go further and support more people with lower-level support while having enough money to care for people with the highest levels of needs.
Our commissioning process will also centre on residents, caregivers, and partners. They will be involved at every stage, as we ensure that people’s perspectives and experiences are heard, taken into consideration, and heavily influence the manner in which we obtain the best services possible.