Social isolation in adult social care users
This measures adult social care users who have as much social contact as they would like and comes from the results of an annual survey. It relies on the service users choosing to respond to the survey and is perception based. We do have the opportunity to have a direct impact on those responding because we take the opportunity to follow up with individuals.
January 2020 Performance
The 2019-20 Adult Social Care Survey is now in progress. The Survey
questionnaires have been despatched to 1,446 individuals. Reminder surveys will
be sent to those who have not replied by mid-February.
Work on building organisational capacity in the voluntary and community sector across West Sussex is underway, led by Public Health under the banner of tackling loneliness and social isolation. Specifically the current re-procurement of the social support service across the county provides scope to focus on social contact issues with local residents who are not currently engaged with services.