ADASS joins the Community Rehabilitation Alliance

ADASS is proud to announce that is has become a member of the Community Rehabilitation Alliance (CRA) as it looks to continue to deliver on its key priorities for improving outcomes for people needing care and support in England.

The aims of the CRA align closely to those of ADASS, particularly when it comes to the investment in capacity and resources to preventative care at home and the community, where rehabilitation services play a vital role alongside and as part of reablement and crisis resolution.

The CRA, which covers England but also has sister alliances in the devolved nations, is made up of more than 60 health and social care charities and professional bodies. Convened and co-chaired by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the CRA’s objective is to raise the profile of rehabilitation and effectively articulate to health and political decision makers why investment in rehab is so important.

By joining the CRA, ADASS will be able to build on its 2023 Autumn Survey report, which called on government to make a commitment to a multi-year programme of investment in prevention, crisis resolution and recovery services, including community-based services in order to enable people to stay as well,  independent and connected as possible, for as long as possible.

You can read the CRA’s core asks for 2023/24 here.

Cathie Williams, Joint Chief-Executive of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said: “More investment and more capacity in rehabilitation and crisis prevention services are one of our key priorities for improving outcomes for people needing care and support in England. If people are able to access support, reablement and rehabilitation that enables them to recover from illness or other life crises at home and in their community, we’ll prevent more people from deteriorating or breaking down and needing hospital or residential care. It’s our intention that being members of the CRA will further strengthen our calls.”

Welcoming ADASS to the CRA, co-chair of the alliance and assistant director at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Sara Hazzard, said: “It is fantastic to have adult social care and social work represented so strongly in the alliance. We know that rehabilitation touches widely across health and social care and affects many hundreds of thousands of people each year across acute and the community. By continuing to develop alliance partnerships, we hope that in this general election year, rehabilitation will be seen consistently as a pillar of healthcare, as important as medicines and surgery.”