Highland Community Care Partnership
Welcome to the Highland Community Care Partnership’s website.
Community Care is the term used to describe how we support adults who need extra help to live their day-to-day lives. Adults may be in need of services for a variety of reasons, but most commonly it is because form some form of disability, frailty resulting from advancing age, a mental health difficulty or a problem with substance misuse (alcohol and drugs).
Community Care involves services provided by Health, Housing and Social Work. It involves people working in the private and voluntary sectors too.
People have told us they want to live as independently as possible. Therefore our main aim is to ensure we support people’s independence. And that they:
• Live as long and healthy lives as possible;
• Feel safe;
• Stay in a home of their own wherever sensible;
• Are free from stigma and discrimination;
• Keep up their important relationships; and
• Develop through having interesting things to do.
Currently the partnership is putting together a new Joint Community Care Plan. The Plan will clearly set out our approach to providing care and support over the next three years to adults who need community care services.
It will show what changes and improvements we plan to make to meet current and future challenges.
Your views are important to us – we have recently closed a public consultation to find out what matters most to people.