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A community OT shares how social prescribing can transform lives
To celebrate Occupational Therapy Week 2025, William Dyett, an Occupational Therapy Apprentice, looks at the role of social prescribing and why occupational therapists can make the case for prevention to improve positive outcomes for people and local authorities.
7 November 2025
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“We’ve always cared”: black women’s experiences in the care sector
Every October, Black History Month in the UK invites us to reflect on the contributions, struggles, and triumphs of Black communities. For Black women in the care sector, this month is more than a celebration it’s a reminder of a legacy of labour, resilience and resistance that stretches back generations, writes Georgia Chimbani.
4 November 2025
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Unpaid caring – the hidden health inequality we can no longer ignore and why we must intervene to prevent ill-health in carers
Laura Greene, Head of Volunteering & Community Partnerships and Lead for Unpaid Carers at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the significant impact of caring and hospital discharge on carers’ health, provides insight on preventive health improvement programmes, and why adult social care directors are best placed to reframe caring as a determinant of health.
20 October 2025
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Equality isn’t optional: anchoring our leadership in law and duty
Jess McGregor, ADASS President, and Nick Presmeg, ADASS Policy and Practice Trustee, reflect on how equality, equity and inclusion remain core to confident, lawful and values-led leadership in adult social care.
14 October 2025
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Reflections from Labour Party Conference – and a call for adult social care to take its rightful place in the national conversation
By Jess McGregor, ADASS President Earlier this week, I attended the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. The energy and commitment to public service were palpable, but I left wanting to hear more about where adult social care sits in the Government’s agenda. At a Carers Trust roundtable, I was introduced to a young carer who, […]
3 October 2025
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Launching the ADASS Research Group: Influencing the future of social care
ADASS has launched a new research group to strengthen collaboration and shape future priorities. In this first update, Chair of the ADASS Research Group, Chris Lehmann, sets out the group’s plans, followed by Professor Yvonne Birks on why partnerships between research and practice are vital to improving adult social care.
15 September 2025
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Past reflections and a vision for the future
Julia Ross reflects on her 30-year career spanning health and social care, the stories and people which have shaped her professional life and future developments in social care.
19 August 2025
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From tragedy to preparedness: Adult social care’s voice in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry
By Cathie Williams, former ADASS CEO Five years ago we were in the thick of the pandemic. Now, the Hearings for the Social Care Module of the Public Inquiry have finished, the Inquiry is taking closing statements and we will await the report. I want to mark both the dreadfulness of that period, the magnificence […]
15 August 2025
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Lucky enough to get old – housing that supports healthy ageing
Holly Holder, Senior Consultant at Campbell Tickell, highlights the urgent need for more accessible, affordable housing for older people in England. Here she calls for national policy change, market incentives, as well as on-going local action to ensure everyone can age with dignity, independence, and choice.
5 August 2025
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Looking through the right end of the telescope: How we can approach efficiency and productivity in adult social care from the right starting place
ADASS Vice President Phil Holmes gives his personal take on efficiency and productivity in adult social care and how a wrong-headed approach risks increasing costs and missing opportunities.
18 July 2025
