Suffolk County Council champions equality in social care as headline Sponsor of annual care awards

Suffolk County Council is the Local Authority for the county of Suffolk, with its head office based in Ipswich.

The council is responsible for a wide range of public services including Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Education, Fire and Rescue services, Highways and Transport, as well as Public Rights of Way and the Registrars and Coroners Service.  The Council has an annual budget of £752.8 million with £351.8 million being spent on Adult Social Care this year.   The Council is a politically led organisation electing 75 councillors from across Suffolk every 4 years, with the next elections being held in May 2025.

For Suffolk County Council, the need to ensure equality of access for Social Care Services is a clear priority.  We want an adult social care market which both welcomes and supports a wide diversity of people and backgrounds. One of our top organisational priorities is to promote and support the health and wellbeing of all people in Suffolk, this means that in our county no one should receive a worse experience of adult social care support because of who they are, their ethnic background, their faith or who they love.  We also want to champion and celebrate the diversity of a workforce which comes together to deal with complex and challenging social care cases every day.  This is why we have sponsored the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion award.

We are also proud to be the Headline Sponsor of these awards, we hope the stories that will come from these awards will continue to foster a greater compassion in the public for those needing care, as well as a greater awareness and appreciation of those working every day to help support them and the incredible work they do.

Councillor Beccy Hopfensperger, Cabinet Member for Adult Care said: "Suffolk County Council is delighted to be the headline sponsor of this year's Adult Social Care Awards.  Every year I have been both touched and humbled by the stories of individuals, teams and organisations who have gone the extra mile to help provide the very best support for the people they care for.  I am pleased too that we are sponsoring the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award, it is so important that we promote a social care market which is built solely on the strengths of individuals, and not dependent upon ethnicity, beliefs or who they love."