Our social care and public health priority
The adults, wellbeing and health partnership at Surrey County Council includes adult social care and public health. Read more here: Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care - Surrey County Council
Adult social care aims to help people stay independent, safe and well so they can live the lives they want to. This includes people who are frail, have disabilities, mental health issues as well as the people who care for them. Surrey County Council provides information and advice about care and support to all residents, offers short term help and options for longer term support if people have more complex needs. Read more here: Adult social care and support - Surrey County Council
Public health improves health and reduces health inequalities by using an evidence-based approach to make recommendations on the delivery of health and well-being services. Through all of life's stages - from birth, childhood, youth, parenting, later in life and at the end of life – you or your family are likely to access local health and wellbeing services that when working well are based on the evidence of what is most effective. Read more here: About public health - Surrey County Council
Our adults wellbeing and health partnership priority
The focus of our adults wellbeing and health partnership priority (which encompasses adult social care and public health) is to help service users to navigate through the social care system – we know that many people don’t know what’s available or how to access it – and they only need to get involved in social care when they are facing a difficult situation.
Many people contact our Helpdesk when facing issues with social care, so we have ensured that our team has had care act training so they are well equipped to support people who contact us.
We will also support adult social care and public health teams to listen to service users and potential service users to design and deliver services in a person-centred way.
Recent work under this priority
Our recent work under this priority has included:
- Exploring the self-funder journey to living in a care home
- Exploring future self-funders knowledge, attitudes and information and advice needs.
- In May and June we asked under 25-year-olds about their awareness, usage and attitude to sexual health services in Surrey. We did this by visiting East Surrey and Godalming colleges, and created an online survey. In total 594 people responded to our survey. You can read more here: Sexual-health-services-for-under-25s-July-2025.pdf
- In Q2 we are exploring attitudes to independence courses at libraries, and awareness and attitudes to community/ day centres. We are conducting 3 engagement events and running an online survey. You can access the survey here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HealthwatchSurreylibraryindependencecoursecommunitycentresurveyQ22025/
- In Q3 we will be looking into NHS health checks.
- In Q4 we hope to visit care homes. People over 80+ and those living in care homes are one of the priority populations identified by Surrey’s health and well being strategy who are at risk of health inequalities.
Reports and bulletins relating to this priority can be found under the Social care category of our reports section on our website.
You can find out more about how social care fits within the wider healthcare system on our Understanding social care page.