Adult and Community Services

Vision for Adult and Community Services

"Adult and Community Services will ensure people of all ages and abilities, who live in Suffolk, have opportunities to access activities either leisure, learning or work that assist them to develop and sustain their economic, health and social well being, helping them to remain independent, exercise choice and their right to dignity in a safe environment."

Roles and responsibilities

The Adult and Communities Service Office (ACS) works in partnership with health services, local councils, the independent, voluntary and private sectors and our colleagues in 'frontline' services (see below), and other service offices, especially the Children & Young People's Service Office. Services commissioned or provided by ACS include:

• access to care services
• accommodation for vulnerable people
• adult learning
• the arts
• culture in the community
• customer rights
• disabilities
• employment and economic well being
• family carer support
• libraries
• local archives, museums and galleries
• older people support services
• 2012 Olympics and Paralympics
• residential homes services
• safeguarding of vulnerable adults
• specialist support for people at home

Further information about ACS

Key documents:

• Suffolk Adult Plan 2009-2011 (PDF, 995Kb)
• Adult and Community Services - Commissioning Strategy 2008-2011 (PDF, 510Kb)
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for Suffolk 2008-2011 (PDF, 7.04Mb)
• Adults and Communities Service Office Plan 2008-2010 (PDF, 2.17Mb)
• Dignity in Older People's Residential Care Services (PDF, 1.02Mb)

Strategic Commissioning and services:

• Culture, Information, Inclusion and Learning
• Independence and Well Being
• Service Access and Partnerships
• Strategic Business Management