Adult and Community Services

The Adult and Community Services Directorate (A&CS) was formed in 2005, from the merger of social care services for people over 18 with a number of cultural and community-oriented services. The Directorate is made up of:

• Social care for older people (65+)
• Social care for working age adults with mental health problems, learning disabilities, physical disabilities or sensory impairment
• Social care for adults with substance misuse problems
• Support for Carers
• Library and Information Service
• Museums Service
• Arts Development Unit
• Adult Learning
• Student Services
• Record Office
• Registrars and Coroners
• Welfare Rights
• The Supporting People programme

What brings these different component parts of the Directorate together is a commitment to improving wellbeing for the whole community; wellbeing in this case referring to a much wider policy agenda than simply health promotion and prevention. Our services should enable people to take more control of their lives; should deliver better outcomes for people through improved partnership working and should take a 'whole community' perspective of health and social care issues.

Our services

We provide a range of services for adults aimed at promoting wellbeing through inclusion and independence, developing opportunity and learning, providing information and safeguarding vulnerable adults