Local policy context
4.1 Our North Tyneside Plan
The Our North Tyneside Plan 2021-25 sets out our ambitions for making North Tyneside an even greater place to live, work and visit by 2025.
The plan outlines a vision of building a better North Tyneside, looking to the future and listening to and working better for residents.
It focuses on five key themes that reflect residents’ priorities and with each key theme reflecting specific areas of work and clear priorities:
- A thriving North Tyneside
- A secure North Tyneside
- A family-friendly North Tyneside
- A caring North Tyneside
- A green North Tyneside
This is the Council’s plan for North Tyneside, but the Council cannot deliver this on its own. The Council works in partnership with residents, businesses, the community and voluntary sector and other key organisations like the NHS, the police, fire and rescue services.
4.2 Equally Well: A healthier, fairer future for North Tyneside
The Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy to tackle health inequalities is North Tyneside’s high level strategic plan for improving the health and wellbeing of the population. It builds on the previous strategy and existing work to reduce inequalities in the borough and initially outlines the approach for the next four years. All partners acknowledge that major change will take time to achieve and there is a longer-term commitment to reducing inequalities and narrowing the gap.
Equally Well is the Council’s strategy to deal with the health and wellbeing of the population across North Tyneside and can be found here. Key priority theme areas are:
- Best start in life.
- Maximising capabilities of children, young people and adults.
- Fair employment and good work for all.
- Ensure a healthy standard of living for all.
- The places and communities we live in.
- Our lifestyles and healthy behaviours across lifetimes.
- An integrated health and care system
The needs of the borough are set out in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).
The JSNA:
- Provides a picture of health and care needs for the local community.
- Looks at the health of the population and the behaviours affecting health.
- Looks at social issues that have an impact on people's health and wellbeing, such as education, poverty and employment.
- Shows health inequalities.
4.3 Adult social care policy
High level commissioning priorities for 2022 to 2024 include:
- Support people to return home on discharge from hospital, using dedicated intermediate care and other resources, rather than short term placements;
- Reduce long term and short term placements into care homes;
- Continued use and development of extra care and other housing provision to support and maintain people living independently in the community for as long as possible;
- Grow capacity in home care, supported living and other community based services to support hospital discharge and community placements;
- Increased use of assistive technology to complement paid care / support for individuals
The Council’s commissioning intentions can be found here.
4.4 Housing and Homelessness policy
The Housing Strategy 2023-2028 sets out how the Council intends to prevent homelessness and improve its specialist housing offer.
The Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2023 – 2028 sets out the Council’s approach to the prevention and relief of homelessness, including the role of supported housing
Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleep Strategy 2023-2028
4.5 Domestic Abuse policy
The North Tyneside Domestic Abuse Strategy 2021-2024 sets out how the Council can help people and communities in North Tyneside become free from the harm of domestic abuse and violence, including the role of safe accommodation.