Our current position
In Coventry, we take a preventative approach to Adult Social Care, promoting independence and wellbeing through a strengths-based model of support. This means working with individuals to help them identify their own strengths, resources, and solutions to the challenges they face. We empower people to define and pursue their own goals, recognising their capacity to lead fulfilling lives with the right support in place.
The expected growth in older people population in the next 20 years will require some diversion to accommodation-based services (care home and/or housing with care schemes) and therefore require adequate supply and good standards of accommodation and care to meet the changing needs.
Coventry has a wide supply, range, and distribution of accommodation-based care services, including Housing with Care (HWC), residential, and nursing services. However, we would welcome the development of new provision where we outlined our future commissioning intentions. Additionally, we acknowledge the national challenges regarding housing availability and the lack of general needs housing for older people. This plan outlines how we intend to collaborate with housing colleagues to address these requirements.