This priority focuses on the development of new models of financially sustainable and integrated health and community-based care that maximises the safety and independence of children and adults with complex needs, enabling them to live and be cared for closer to home, lead ordinary lives and avoid unnecessary recourse to more institutionalised forms of care.

There is a particular emphasis on:

• Establishing effective processes for joint assessment and care planning (including the associated funding arrangements) between the statutory partners that ensure a focus on the delivery of integrated health and care for children and adults with complex needs.
• Improving the experience of an individual in the transition from children to adult services.
• Expanding the range of financially sustainable accommodation and care-based solutions for children and adults with complex needs and reduce avoidable recourse to more institutionalised forms of care.
• Expanding the range of financially sustainable integrated health and care services across the continuum of need and support children to remain living safe and well within their families and communities.

The following Programmes deliver against this priority: