Social care and education

We develop long-term plans (strategies) to work from so that we can deliver the best possible social care services for Leicester’s children and adult residents.

We have developed a range of documents (PDFs) and web pages that explain our plans for the future. These documents set out what we are doing to make sure that our social care services meet people’s needs for care and support. The documents are listed below, along with a brief a description of what they are about.

All Age

• Our Social Care and Education shared goals and commitments (PDF)
  • Our Social Care and Education shared goals and commitments include our aims and priorities. All of our work will be underpinned by these commitments.

• All Age Commissioning Strategy 2020-2025 (PDF)
  • Sets out our new commissioning intentions for both adults and children’s services

• Social Care and Education Provider Hub

  • Provides detailed information about current and future needs in Leicester for a range of services for adults, children and young people. The hub sets out our views about how providers might plan for future needs, and indicates future tendering opportunities. This hub now replaces our previous Market Position Statements.

• The Joint Health, Social Care and Education Transitions Strategy 2022-2024
  • Produced jointly with Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Sets out an approach to improving the support provided for young people with additional needs as they prepare for adulthood.
• Preparing for Adulthood Strategy 2021-2025
  • This strategy is for young people, aged 14 -25 with special education needs and disabilities (SEND) who are moving into adulthood, sometimes referred to as transition. It is also for parent, carers and professionals supporting them and encouraging them to look at the various options and choices the young person can make that will transition them into adulthood.

Children's strategic documents

• Children's Placement Sufficient Strategy (2020-2023)
  • Describes our overall approach to supporting all of our children and young people to have a safe place to live and thrive. 

• Corporate parenting strategy
  • Our approach to supporting care experienced children and young people

• Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Joint Commissioning Strategy 2021-2024
  • This strategy forms the first Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Commissioning Strategy for Children and Young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).

Adults' strategic documents

• Adult Social Care Strategic Priorities
  • Sets out ASC’s main purpose and our six strategic priorities.

• Adult Social Care Stakeholder Engagement Strategy 2017
  • Sets out our approach to involving people when we plan, design, commission, deliver and evaluate our services. 

• Supported Living and Extra Care Housing Strategy 2021-2031
• Appendices - Supported Living and Extra Care Housing Strategy 2021-2031
  
  • This strategy outlines the plan for developing supported living and extra care services
    for Leicester.

• Joint Integrated Commissioning Strategy for Adult Mental Health 2021-2025
  • Produced jointly with local NHS partners, this strategy outlines how we will focus on prevention, accommodation and employment, education and volunteering, to support the ambition that mental health should have parity of esteem with physical health.

• Joint Learning Disabilities Commissioning Strategy 2015-2019
  • Produced jointly with Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Sets out information about the needs of people with learning disabilities and plans for commissioning services to meet those needs.

• Joint Health and Social Care Learning Disability Strategy (2020-2023) (PDF)
• Joint Health and Social Care Learning Disability Strategy 2020-2023 (easy read format) (PDF)

• Joint carers strategy (2018-2021) - recognising, valuing and supporting carers in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (PDF)
  • This Carers Strategy has been developed in partnership with carers across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and with the support of a number of local voluntary sector organisations, Healthwatch and local health providers. The organisations signed up to this strategy have committed to work together to deliver our local vision for carers.

• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)
  • DOLS provide legal protection to vulnerable people in care or hospital
• Contracts and Assurance Service (CaAS) 2018-2019 report (PDF)
  • Provides an overview of how adult social care services we contract with, have performed in terms of quality of care during the period 2018-2019.
• Living Well with Dementia Strategy 2019-2022 (PDF)
  • Our strategy sets out the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ambition to support people to live
    well with dementia. It reflects the national strategic direction outlined in the Prime Minister’s
    Challenge on Dementia which details ambitious reforms to be achieved by 2020.
• The Big Plan Report (2020-2023)
  • Our 'big plan' includes things that we think should happen in Leicester to make life better for people with a learning disability.

Education related strategic documents

• Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) Strategy 2021-2025
  • This strategy sets out the vision, priorities and success measures for effective speech, language and communication support from pre-birth into adulthood (0-25 years).

Help with documents 

If you have problems accessing or viewing documents on this page, please email us at SCE-Communications@leicester.gov.uk.