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All-age prevention

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What do we mean by prevention?

Primary prevention/promoting wellbeing:

– aimed at people who have no particular social care needs or symptoms of illness

– focus is on maintaining independence, good health, and promoting wellbeing

Secondary prevention/early intervention:

– aims to identify people at risk and to halt or slow down any deterioration

– actively seek to improve a person’s situation.

Tertiary prevention:

– aimed at minimising disability or deterioration from established health conditions or

complex social care needs.

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Why commission for prevention?

• Delaying and reducing the need for care and support

• Shifting the model from ‘doing to or for’ to enabling people to ‘do for

themselves’ before a time of crisis or significant deterioration in ability

• Seeking to protect our most vulnerable residents and helping people to

lead independent and fulfilling lives giving them more choice and

control over their care and support

• Supporting and maintaining residents ability to engage positively in

their own communities

• Enabling residents to manage their own health and social care needs

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Priority 1: giving every child and young person the best start in life:

• Semi-independent & Independent Fostering Agencies Frameworks

• NRS – fostering recruitment• Family Drug Action Court• Lewisham Preferred Provider List for Children's domiciliary

care• Young carers project• Family Support – Homestart/NewPin• Runaway children’s project

Lots of other projects commissioned by other parts of the servicesuch as education and the Troubled Families programme

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Priority 2: building healthier and more resilient communities and tackling the root causes of ill health • Community support - Information, advice and access Wellbeing planning Social interaction• Open access day services • Prevention and inclusion framework• Carers strategy and pledges• Promoting financial resilience and economic

wellbeing – LD employment project• Southwark Safe and Independent Living

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Priority 3: improving the experiencesand outcomes for our mostvulnerable residents and enabling them to live more independent lives

• Carers strategy and pledges• Integrated community equipment services• Telecare/assistive technology• Accommodation-based framework• Housing-related support services• Advocacy – IMHA/IMCA• Advocacy – in response to the Care Act