As we begin to emerge from the pandemic and the Council supports recovery in our communities, we asked for your views on the care and wellbeing priorities in the borough. This included:
By asking about your priorities, the Council is best advised on where to direct future programmes, policies, and investments to improve care and wellbeing across the borough.
A key message from the survey results was that there was a lack of awareness about many of the care and wellbeing priorities (listed above) which were asked about. This included the Covid-19 support services and Kensington and Chelsea being a dementia friendly borough – this status was awarded by the Alzheimer’s Society in February 2020. Also, very few of you had heard of the Council’s Residents’ Pay and Play scheme (this is a free annual membership, giving residents access to a range of discounted activities across Kensington Leisure Centre and Chelsea Sports Centre) or were aware of the care homes in the borough. There was, however, support for the Council purchasing local priorities to provide homes for adults with learning disabilities and a number of you expressed an interest in becoming a Dementia Friends’ Champion.
Since the start of the pandemic, more of you had seen a decrease in your physical activity than had seen an increase. There was demand for walking and running clubs as well as yoga and tai chi classes to encourage more physical activity. Whilst some of you had seen no change in your mental health wellbeing, the majority had seen some sort of increase in feelings of stress or anxiety. Although a significant minority of you know where to get support for your mental health wellbeing, there was a demand for more navigation/signposting of what support is available by 48 per cent of respondents. A number of you described yourselves as carers and you wanted to see the Council facilitate more practical help to support carers.
The majority of you felt that the borough was accessible (particularly in the centre of the borough). There was support for pedestrian crossing with lights, lowered curbs, and disabled parking to improve the accessibility further.
The lack of awareness of many of the care and wellbeing priorities in the borough suggests the need for some targeted communication to drive up awareness and allow more residents to benefit from locally funded services. Other improvements the Council can realise from listening to your views include:
Later on this year, we will update you with more details on the actions taken and how to get involved.
This is a challenging time for all of us, both nationally and locally and COVID-19 is still a serious issue. Kensington and Chelsea Council is providing a number of services for residents, as well as working in partnership with many local organisations that are undertaking fantastic work to support local residents.
In August 2020, we heard from our residents about the impact that COVID-19 was having on you; the services you were accessing; and where you think the Council could best focus its efforts in order to support recovery from COVID-19.
You said that your main economic priority for the Council to focus on over the coming year to help with COVID-19 recovery was ‘To ensure priority groups or more vulnerable residents get extra help’.
We did:
As we begin to emerge from the pandemic and the Council supports recovery in our communities, we would like to hear your views on care and wellbeing priorities, to best advise the Council on where to direct future programmes, policies and investments.
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