Our strategies

Adult Services Strategy 2024-2029

Our Vision for 2024-2029 sets a clear expectation for Adult Services in Swindon to ensure that the people they work with and for, have “Lives, not Services”. Informed by the Adult Social Care White Paper “People at the Heart of Care” (2021), the principles that underpin our Strategy are Choice, Empowerment and Personalisation.

Adult Services' Working Together Plan 2024-2029 

In July 2024, we officially launched our new Co-production strategy, known as the Working Together Plan. This plan represents our collective effort to ensure that we work alongside those with lived experiences to shape and deliver the services and policies that affect them.

The term "co-production" refers to this collaborative process where we work together as equal partners. The Plan is our framework for implementing this approach, ensuring that everyone involved has the opportunity to contribute, share their knowledge, and help create solutions that truly meet the needs of our community.

Adult Services' Commissioning Strategy 2025 - 2028 

Our Adult Services Commissioning Strategy 2025-2028 outlines how care and support will be designed with people over the next four years.

The strategy focuses on choice, empowerment and personalisation, building on the Adult Services Strategy and the vision of ‘Lives, Not Services.

In developing the strategy, council teams, supported by Swindon Advocacy Movement, have met with Experts by Experience to explain who they are, to hear what matters to them and help shape the priorities in the strategy. The experts also helped design an Easy Read version of the strategy to make it accessible.

The needs of the resident are at the heart of the strategy, and its approval also follows engagement and public consultation with partners in health, care providers and voluntary organisations. 

The strategy commits the Council to work with the people it supports to develop high-quality, local services which help residents to remain independent for as long as possible while giving them choice and control over how they are supported.

The success of the strategy will be measured by people’s feedback about their experiences through the Council’s ‘My Care, My Views’ survey.

Adults workforce strategy 2024-2027

This strategy reflects our dedication to cultivating a skilled, compassionate, and informed workforce capable of navigating the evolving landscape of Adult Services.

Our strategies can be translated into over 70 languages. If you require a translation, please contact us at communications@swindon.gov.uk.

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