Cash boost to social care in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Council has agreed to provide £1.3 million of funding to help improve the county’s adult social care services. The money will be spent on eight new projects that aim to prevent problems or intervene at an early stage. Five more projects will be funded by the Northamptonshire Invest to Save programme which was awarded by the Government two years ago. These will cover wide-ranging social care issues such as dementia, mental health and visual impairment. It is hoped that all the projects will contribute to the council’s long-term aims of saving money and improving the quality of life for service users through earlier prevention and tackling of social care issues. Councillor Robin Brown comments: ‘By focusing on prevention and early intervention, we will be able to rely far less on admitting people to residential or nursing care but promote the independence, health and well-being of adults with social care needs living in Northamptonshire.’