Adult Social Care Local Account 2024/25

Adult Social Care have partnered with the National Development Team for Inclusion's Community Led Support network as part of a 3-year change programme to support the implementation of Community Led Support across Gateshead. 

Community Led Support brings together a network of public, private and voluntary organisations who all want to improve lives in our communities.  It is based on a set of principles and approaches that help people to achieve what matters most to them, supporting people to build upon their own skills, assets and abilities and those of their friends and families, connecting people with people and with local communities.  It is a place-based approach that recognises every community is different and there is no one size fits all response. 

Implementing Community Led Support requires the simple but challenging requirement to work in accordance with the CLS Principles:

• co production brings people and organisations together around a shared vision
• there is a focus on 'place', on community and on the 'whole' person
• people can get support and advice easily, when they need it, so that crises are avoided
• support is strengths based, building independence, control and community connections
• bureaucracy is the absolute minimum it has to be
• the culture is based on trust, empowerment and shared values within and across teams and organisations
• the system is responsive, proportionate and focussed on outcomes