It starts with our overall strategy. This is our vision for 2022 to 2030, called Living the life you want to live.Autism Strategy 2023-2026
This strategy has been developed based on feedback received from autistic children, young people, adults and family carers on what our priorities need to be in order to make Sheffield an Autism friendly city. It describes how we will work collaboratively with people with lived experience, their families and carers, our partners and stakeholders to address the inequalities faced by autistic people, their families and carers. The strategy sets out our ambition for a cultural shift to make Sheffield an understanding and welcoming place where autistic children, young people and adults can thrive.
Sheffield City Council: Sheffield All Age Autism Strategy 2023-2026 (PDF, 414 KB).
Carers’ Strategy
Our Carers’ Strategy sets out an ambitious plan for every carer to have:
- a life of their own.
- the choice to care and stop caring without recrimination.
- equality of opportunity to life chances including education, training, work and leisure activities.
From our website you can download:
Sheffield City Council: Carers Delivery Plan 2022/25 (PDF, 288 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Young Carer, Parent and Adult Carer Strategy (WORD, 93 KB)
Sheffield City Council: Carers' information for people keeping well (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Sheffield City Council: Health Needs Assessment of Sheffield Carers 2012 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Sheffield City Council: Commissioning Plan for Carers 2021-2025 (PDF, 775 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Carers' Delivery Plan (2022-2025) (PDF, 288 KB).
Get more information about how we coproduced our plans with carers and stakeholders on the Council website.
Sheffield City Council: Carers’ Strategy.
Care Governance Strategy
Our Care Governance Strategy is our commitment to maintaining an excellent standard of care governance for Adult Care in Sheffield and supports delivery of the Adult Social Care Strategy. This includes the full scope of services we provide and commission across Sheffield.
Sheffield City Council: Care Governance Strategy (PDF, 738 KB).
The strategy is supported by a Performance Management Framework that defines the standards we measure quality by and the performance levels we want to achieve.
Sheffield City Council: Performance Management Framework (PDF, 675 KB).
The strategy is also supported by a Quality Matters Practice Framework that helps us make sure the people who use services, their families and carers know what high-quality care looks like and what they have the right to expect. The framework will support our staff to understand what high-quality care looks like and how they can contribute to delivering it.
Sheffield City Council: Quality Matters Practice Framework (PDF, 1.8 MB).
Our work on quality and performance is supported by our Practice Standards. The standards were developed with staff across our service, and with people with lived experience including the people we support and their carers, to help us improve outcomes for the people we support.
Sheffield City Council: Practice Standards (PDF, 222 KB).
Our governance work is also supported by our Cycle of Assurance Framework. The framework sets out how reports and updates are escalated through the service on a routine basis to give scrutiny to, and provide assurance about, the activity, risks, and compliance of the service.
Sheffield City Council: Cycle of Assurance Framework (PDF, 104 KB).
Commissioning plans
Our Commissioning Service helps develop and improve the services in Sheffield that help provide adult social care and support. This includes all the different voluntary and community organisations that support people in their community, and the independent care providers like care homes and home care. Commissioning and market shaping prioritises outcomes and wellbeing, and covers services for adults who have needs for care and support, and services for meeting carers’ support needs. Our commissioners work closely with our NHS and voluntary sector partners to work out what services we need and how best to purchase them.
Find out more about our the way we commission services for people, and other reports on our Commissioning Service.
Sheffield City Council: Adult social care commissioning.
Sheffield City Council: Market Sustainability & Commissioning Update and Approval of the 24/25 Care Fee (PDF, 251 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Market shaping statement 2022 (PDF, 1 MB).
Sheffield City Council: Mental health social care market position statement (PDF, 482 KB).
Sheffield City Council: 2022 Market position statement Housing with support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism (PDF, 4.6 MB).
Sheffield City Council: Fair Cost of Care – Domiciliary Care (WORD, 97 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Fair Cost of Care – Care Homes (WORD, 438 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Care Homes Commissioning and Delivery Plan (PDF, 1 MB).
Sheffield City Council: Revised Market Sustainability Plan (WORD, 41 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Living and Ageing Well Market Position Statement (PDF, 933 KB).
Sheffield City Council: Short term care strategy for older people.
Sheffield City Council: Recommission Supported Living, Respite and Day Services provision for Working Age Adults (PDF, 302 KB).
Digital Strategy
Technology will be a key way in which we improve adult care and support in Sheffield. It can help us to be more efficient, to work better together and support all the workforce that delivers care and support.
You can find out more about our plans to make sure technology helps us to improve our services on the Council website.
Sheffield City Council: Adult Health & Social Care Digital Strategy (PDF, 662 KB).
Emotional and Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2023 - 2026
This strategy sets out an ambitious vision for the city’s emotional recovery and the wellbeing of Sheffield people. We need our services to be excellent, joined up, and to support people in the right way. Working in partnership, we know we can begin to make the changes we need.
Sheffield City Council: Sheffield All-Age Emotional and Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2023-2026 (PDF, 780 KB).
Learning Disabilities Strategy 2023 - 2030
Our Hear Our Voice Strategy for improving the care and support we provide to help make the lives of people with a learning disability better. Everything in our strategy came from people with learning disabilities, their families, and carers. The Sheffield Learning Disabilities Partnership Board will check the strategy every year to make sure we are doing what we said we would do.
Sheffield City Council: Sheffield’s Learning Disabilities Strategy 2023-2030 (PDF, 1.1 MB).
Physical Health Strategy for People Living with Severe Mental Illness, People with Learning Disabilities, and Autistic People
In 2019 Sheffield’s NHS organisations, Voluntary and Community Sector partners, and Sheffield City Council agreed our first citywide Sheffield Physical Health Improvement Strategy, through which we have worked together to help people living with severe mental illness, people with learning disabilities, and autistic people to live longer and to have healthier lives.
In 2022, we started the process of reviewing and updating the strategy. This included asking people with lived experience and their carers for their views about what has helped with their physical health over the last three years, what the challenges have been, and what the priorities for action over the next three years should be. This feedback has been through a survey on the strategy, review of recent consultations such as the Autism Strategy engagement, the Health Experiences engagement by Disability Sheffield, the 'What Matters to You' engagement, and feedback from providers. It has helped to shape the ambitions for our 2023-28 Strategy.
Sheffield City Council: Sheffield Physical Health Strategy for People Living with Severe Mental Illness, People with Learning Disabilities, and Autistic People (PDF, 684 KB).
Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Partnership Strategic Plan
The partnership began in 2002 and has developed over the years. The latest strategic plan helps ensure that agencies work together to effectively safeguard and promote the safety and wellbeing of adults (primarily with care and support needs) in Sheffield. The partnership promotes awareness and understanding of abuse and neglect and ensures systems are in place to protect people from abuse and neglect.
Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Partnership: Strategic Plan (2020 – 2023) (WORD, 190 KB).
Technology Enabled Care Strategy
Technology Enabled Care is the way equipment, gadgets and apps can help someone to live independently safe and well. Sheffield is developing new services that will allow these new technologies to be available to people across the city, contributing to enhancing the quality of life for the citizens of Sheffield.
Sheffield City Council: Technology Enabled Care Monitoring Service Contract Extension and Market Shaping Strategy (PDF, 226 KB).
You can also get an update on our progress from December 2023.
Sheffield City Council: Sheffield’s Technology Enabled Care & Digital Services Transformation (PDF 3.1 MB).