Surveys

Surveys

ADASS Spring Survey Topic Report: Co-production and National Adult Social Care Surveys 

This report draws on the ADASS Spring Survey 2026 to explore councils’ progress in embedding co-production and how well national surveys capture the experiences of people who draw on care and support and unpaid carers. Bringing together views from directors and people with lived experience, it highlights concerns about accessibility and representation, and calls for […]
Reports & briefings / Surveys

ADASS Spring Survey 2026

Our annual survey of Directors of Adult Social Services, essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing adult social care and implications for the NHS.
Reports & briefings / Surveys

ADASS Autumn Survey 2025

Our annual survey of Directors of Adult Social Services, essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing adult social care and implications for the NHS.
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Surveys

ADASS Spring Survey 2025

Our annual survey of Directors of Adult Social Services, essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing adult social care and implications for the NHS.
Reports & briefings / Surveys

ADASS Autumn Survey 2024

Our annual survey of Directors of Adult Social Services, essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing adult social care and implications for the NHS.
Surveys

ADASS Spring Survey 2024

Our annual survey of Directors of Adult Social Services, essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing adult social care and implications for the NHS.
Reports & briefings / Surveys
Reports & briefings / Surveys

ADASS Survey 2022: People Waiting for Assessments, Care or Reviews

This is a summary of the ADASS survey carried out in April 2022, which combined acontinuation of the monthly monitoring of people waiting for assessments, care and support or a direct payment to begin or a review of their care plan (which was committed until July 2022), together with a repeat of the survey measuring […]
Surveys / Reports & briefings

ADASS Survey 2022: Waiting for Care and Support

Our new survey findings show that more than half a million people are now waiting for an adult social care assessment, for care or a direct payment to begin or for a review of their care.  This new evidence shows that despite staff working relentlessly over the last two years, levels of unmet, undermet or […]
Reports & briefings / Surveys

ADASS Survey 2022: Care, Support and Safeguards

ADASS has conducted a number of member surveys which have focused on different aspects of care, support and safeguards.  The latest of these member surveys which were undertaken in February and March 2022 have revisited some of the issues which we have explored in previous surveys. The results are set out in two short reports […]