Adults, Health and Commissioning Strategy 2025–2028

Building a healthier, fairer, more caring Cambridgeshire

Our Adults, Health and Commissioning Strategy 2025–2028 supports how Cambridgeshire County Council will work to create a greener, fairer, and more caring Cambridgeshire. It outlines how we will continue to support adults with care and support needs, promote health and wellbeing, and deliver high-quality services that meet the needs of our residents.

This strategy builds on our commitment to deliver care and support that enables people to live healthy, safe, and independent lives, reducing inequalities and making services more accessible and effective.

We developed this strategy through engagement with adults who use services, unpaid carers, staff, partners, and elected members, ensuring that it reflects the priorities and experiences of the people we serve.

This strategy brings together everything we do to support adults and unpaid carers across Cambridgeshire – from social care and mental health support to tackling health inequalities and building stronger local services.

Our vision

We want everyone in Cambridgeshire to:

• live healthy, safe, and independent lives
• access the right care and support, when and where they need it
• feel included and supported in their community

Our values

We are guided by our CARE values:

• Collaborative – working with residents, partners, and communities
• Accountable – taking responsibility for the quality and impact of our services
• Respectful – treating everyone with dignity and fairness
• Excellence – striving for the best outcomes

Our ambitions – ASPIRE

The strategy is built around six ambitions:

1. Improve access: Working to make it easier for people to access our services, as well as those offered by our partners, by improving the quality of information, advice, and guidance available. Our aim is to help individuals make informed choices about their care and support needs. This includes making services more accessible, responsive, and readily available.

2. Focus on safety: Making sure that our services, and those that we work with, always follow high standards to keep people safe. This means spotting and dealing with concerns properly, and giving the right support to adults and unpaid carers so they can stay safe and live independently wherever possible.

3. Increased place-based support: Moving towards more of our own and commissioned services being based within local communities, with a greater range of interventions available to keep residents and unpaid carers living independently at home for longer.

4. Be innovative: Innovation in adult social care means finding smarter, more efficient ways to deliver care — whether through digital tools, integrated services, or new models of support — so residents can live independently for longer.

5. Reduce inequalities: Improving how residents can engage with us and our commissioned services, helping us to deal with the barriers they face.

How we’ll get there

• Work closely with NHS, voluntary groups, and community organisations
• Put prevention and early help at the heart of what we do
• Listen and learn from people with lived experience
• Use technology and data to improve services
• Ensure our workforce is skilled, supported, and future-ready

Find out more

You can read the full strategy below. 

Together, we can create a greener, fairer, and more caring Cambridgeshire.