CQC Report: Is 'adequate' the new 'poor'?

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services 
Date: December 3, 2009
Embargo: Immediate

Directors of adult social services have expressed 'serious concern’ at reports from individual authorities which suggest 'discrepancies and dissonances’ between local appraisals of adult social care by inspectors and today’s reports from the national Care Quality Commission.

Directors rise to local challenges but say “we can’t do it alone”

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Association of Directors of Children's Services
Date: 10.00 am, Tuesday 1st December 2009.
Embargo: Immediate

Leaders of social services for adults and children today committed to rising to the challenges presented by the Social Work Task Force’s recommendations for improving the way social workers are trained and supported in their vital roles. Making the task force recommendations a reality would “not be quick, cheap or easy”, the two Presidents warned, pointing to the Task Force’s identification of the reforms as a ten year programme, but Directors were “in it for the long haul”.

Queen’s Speech proposals “an important first step towards system overhaul”

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Date: November 18, 2009
Embargo: Immediate

As the Prime Minister’s social care proposals were outlined in the Queen’s Speech today, politicians of all political parties were urged to keep the issues he raised “very much on the front burner” both during and after the forthcoming general election.