Our social care strategies

Improving Lives Every Day

Trafford Council’s Adult Social Care Strategy 2025 – 2027

This strategy is the starting point for improving adult social care services in Trafford.

We are committed to working with people who use services and their carers to turn our vision into practical action and to build the Trafford approach to co-production with our residents.

This approach is based on key principles including:

• Being open and transparent in our communications and engagement and using clear language and information that is accessible for our different communities
• Listening to individuals, families and communities of Trafford – having honest and transparent conversations
• Using lived experience to plan, design, deliver and improve services
• Listening, acting, learning, empowering, sharing and doing it together

Trafford carers, family and friends strategy

The strategy recognises the role that carers have in providing unpaid care and support. This can be to their:

• family
• friends
• loved ones

Unpaid carers’ provide:

• an enormous amount of support to our wider health and wellbeing services
• reduce the need for paid support
• help to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions
• enable safe discharge back home

Without the contribution of unpaid carers’, the services that we all rely on would be overwhelmed. The strategy details our commitment to supporting carers of all ages.

Our plan for health and social care

Our Locality Plan sets out the aspirations and commitments from across the health and care system. 

We have a Trafford Integrated Care Partnership and will work together to improve the health of people in Trafford.

Sufficiency Strategy

Sets out how Trafford will make sure there are enough local placements to meet the needs of children in care.

The Trafford Council Corporate Plan 2025-27 outlines five key priorities

1. The best start for our children and young people
2. Healthy and independent lives for everyone
3. A thriving economy and homes for all
4. Address the climate crisis
5. Culture, sport and heritage for everyone

All these key priorities are best delivered for our cared for children when they live within their local communities and close to the services that know them well. The Corporate Plan makes specific reference to cared for children in relation to priority 1 where it is stated that:

“This ambition must be extended to our Children in Care. We will continue to invest in services across the borough to support Children in Care and Care Experienced young people and adults, ensuring that they are at the forefront of our ambitions as a Local Authority”