Webinar with Lilli – Session 1 – Starting Well – Creating the capacity to change

The ambition for care is clear: more proactive, more community-based, more digitally enabled. But the reality on the ground is that adult social care teams are stretched managing waiting lists, workforce gaps and financial pressures all at once.

So how do you create the capacity to implement these changes when you’re already firefighting the day-to-day?

The Capacity Lab is a series of three practical, bootcamp-style sessions designed specifically for Directors of Adult Social Services and their senior teams. Led by ADASS in partnership with Lilli and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, each session brings together peers, OTs and sector experts to tackle the real barriers to technology adoption — and give you tools you can use immediately.

• Session 1: Starting Well — Creating the capacity to change Where can technology create the most immediate impact on capacity? This session covers the practicalities of getting started and how to make the case for change before you’ve got all the evidence.

Speakers confirmed:

• Jon Wilson – Jon is Director of Adults and Communities at Leicestershire County Council and a Director at East Midlands ADASS.
• Dave Macfarlane – Dave is a trained social worker and previous Transformation and Digital Lead for Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. He now supports councils with transformation programmes at Triple Value Impact.
• James Sinclair – James is a former delivery manager within North East London NHS Foundation Trust, and now is Care City’s Chief Operations Officer.
• Kelly Hudson – Kelly is CEO of home monitoring technology company Lilli and works closely with local authorities to support sustainable, scalable transformation.
• Sally Burlington (chair) – Sally is the Chief Executive of ADASS and has had a wide-ranging career in policy and strategy development including at LGA and Kent County Council.

Places are limited — please book early to secure your spot. The full speaker list will be announced soon.

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The following sessions will take place over the next few weeks;

• Session 2: Taking People With You — Managing and influencing stakeholders Technology will only have the desired impact if the people around you believe in it. This session focuses on bringing families, finance teams, OTs and your wider workforce on the journey — building confidence and creating the conditions for adoption. Featuring insight from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
• Session 3: Stick and Scale — Making innovation business as usual The hardest part isn’t always starting, it’s sustaining. This session is about building the systems, processes and culture that turn a pilot into a programme, and a programme into long-term impact. How do you embed technology into care pathways, measure what matters, and make the case for scale?