What's New....

Recent additions to the site are listed with the date they were added.

Two emerging issues causing ADASS particular concern about the relationship between the Office of the Public Guardian and local arrangements to provide deputyship services are addressed in a letter to the OPG from the Joint Chairs of the Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Network.  Link	02.07.08
Lord Darzi's report High Quality Care For All is a `very promising’ move towards bringing health and social care agendas even closer together according ADASS President John Dixon (Press Release)	01.07.08
COUNCIL LEADERS AND directors of adult social services today praised social care staff for their efforts to improve social care at a time of increasing demand for services. (Press Release) Budget Survey	25.06.08
New Care Commission needs to recognise Social Care Status (Press Release)	24.06.08
ADASS Dementia Strategy (Press Release)	23.06.08
ADASS response:- ‘The Future Regulation of Health and Adult Social Care in England : A consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers (DH 2008)’	18.06.08
New Deal for Carers - an opportunity not to be missed (Press Release)	16.06.08
Jeff Jerome to become the first National Director for Social Care Transformation (Press Release)	13.06.08
ADASS Annual Report 2007	11.06.08
An ADASS Discussion Paper on "Mental Health into the Maintstream"	05.06.08
Speech given to LGA conference The Future of Adult Care, June 4, 2008 by John Dixon	04.06.09
ADASS have `fully accepted’ the message and implications of a major report on dementia and mental health issues launched today by the King’s Fund (Press Release)	28.05.08
ADASS / LGA submission to CSCI review of eligibility criteria	16.05.08
ADASS submission to The all-party Parliamentary Local Government Group Enquiry: Services for older people	16.05.08
ADASS and LGA submission to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into the Governments carers strategy April 2008	12.05.08
ADASS Futures Newsletter - April 2008	12.05.08
Green Paper must be `radical and courageous’ in its approach and conclusions - ADASS (Press Release)	12.05.08
Reassert the social care and local government role in mental health services’ - ADASS (Press Release)	05.06.08
Presentations from the ADASS Spring Seminar 2008	29.04.08
National Director to be appointed 'to transform social care’ - April 29th 2008 (Press Release)	29.04.08
Incoming ADASS President pledges progress on personalisation agenda - April 16th 2008 (Press Release)	29.04.08
Response from ADASS to the LGA Health Commission: Call for Evidence	02.04.08
ADASS response to the Department of Health’s consultation: ‘Valuing people now: from progress to transformation’	02.04.08
Directors of adults and children’s services applaud social work report (Press Release)	01.04.08
Directors welcome Minister’s commitment to human rights (Press Release)	01.04.08
ADASS Business Plan 2008	17.03.08
ADASS submission to the Health Select Committee Inquiry into Health Inequalities January 2008	14.03.08
ADASS to the consultation on guidance on 'Finding a shared vision of how people's mental health problems should be understood'	04.03.08
ADASS response to the DH consultation ' Improving Health Supporting Justice'	04.03.08
ADASS, ADCS & ADPH Joint Conference Inequalities and Wellbeing – Working Together Central Hall, Westminster , London, Tuesday 20th May 2008, 9.30am - 3.30pm Booking form	04.03.08
NHS and social care - An important step forward in the development of shared records  (Press Release)	03.03.08
Speech given by Anne Williams on 1st February 2008 to a meeting of the  POPP Evaluators Network Meeting: Transformation - things that make a difference	28.02.08
European Social Services Conference, Paris   2 - 4 July 2008 - Please follow this link to register online for the 16th European Social Services Conference: http://www.esn-eu.org/paris/eng/	25.02.08