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ADASS/BASW Joint Statement: The role of the DASS and social workers in disaster recovery

ADASS and BASW England are committed to highlighting the integral role of system leaders and social workers as key workers during disaster and emergency response and recovery.
19 August 2024
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Statement of Understanding: Planned Returns to the UK in Cases Involving Vulnerable Adults

This statement of understanding updates and replaces an understanding agreed between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) in 2019.
15 August 2024
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ADASS responds to UK riots

A statement by ADASS President, Melanie Williams, in response to the violent riots happening across the UK.
6 August 2024
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ADASS welcomes Sally Burlington as new CEO

ADASS is delighted to announce the appointment of Sally Burlington as our new CEO, starting in early November 2024.
6 August 2024
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Boosting digital skills and confidence in adult social care: a critical need for the future

Opinion piece by Alyson Scurfield, CEO of TSA, the national advisory body for technology enabled care (TEC), looks at the barriers Directors of Adult Social Services face to make digital technology mainstream in social care.
5 August 2024
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ADASS responds to the Government scrapping adult social care charging reforms

Our response to the Government's announcement that it will not proceed with adult social care charging reforms.
30 July 2024
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ADASS responds to Skills for Care’s ‘Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England’

Our response to the launch of Skills for Care's new Social Care Workforce Strategy
23 July 2024
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ADASS responds to ‘Missing Millions: Exploring hidden and unmet social care need for disabled people’

Our response to a new report by Healthwatch England focusing on hidden demand for social care.
23 July 2024
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Optimism for a time to act from a survey of risk and gloom

Our President, Melanie Williams, shares her thoughts following the launch of this year's annual survey of Directors of Adult Social Services.
22 July 2024
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Valuing our social care workforce – on the brink of action?

Our President, Melanie Williams, shares her thoughts on the importance of the new adult social care workforce strategy and what it means for those working in and drawing on care and support.
18 July 2024
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Metrics of misery..and a message of hope?

Opinion piece by Richard Humphries, ADASS Associate Trustee, following the launch of the ADASS Spring Survey 2024
16 July 2024
Press Releases

People needing more intense care and support, pushing councils to overspend, says ADASS survey

People needing more intense care and support after hospital, pushing local councils to overspend, according to a new survey. People are needing more complex care and support due to illness and disability, but local councils are struggling financially to meet people’s higher-level needs says the latest annual survey from the Association of Directors of Adult […]
16 July 2024
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ADASS welcomes new Government

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) congratulates the Labour Party for their victory in the General Election.    Anna Hemmings, ADASS CEO, said: “We look forward to the opportunity to work with Keir Starmer and his team to improve social care and ensure it enables people to live their best lives.   “We […]
5 July 2024
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Co-production: the European perspective

As National Co-Production Week 2024 gets underway, it was also the focus for the European Social Services Conference, writes David Brindle The annual European Social Services Conference is always a great opportunity to take stock of how the English and other UK care systems are performing compared to others. This year’s focus was co-production – […]
2 July 2024
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Prevention is the best cure to ease winter pressures, says new report by ADASS

Improving care at home, more sheltered, extra care and dementia focussed housing, investment in crisis resolution intermediate care and better information and advice for older and disabled people would prevent many from needing hospital or residential care, reducing pressures across health and social care every winter, says a new report from ADASS (the Association of […]
30 June 2024
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Transforming Adult Social Care: The Role of Technology in Budget Planning

ADASS Sponsored Content November 2023 Content written by The Access Group As we are less than half a year away from the new financial year, updating budget plans to commission care and support to meet the needs of local people is crucial to improving quality of life, and delaying or preventing future care needs. Budget […]
30 June 2024
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ADASS response to Hewitt Review of Integrated Care System

A key focus of the Hewitt Review is the importance of helping people stay healthier for longer at home, preventing the need for emergency hospital treatment. ADASS underlines that this can only be achieved by a Government commitment to providing a good quality social care system working in parallel with the NHS.    Sarah McClinton, […]
30 June 2024
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Springing into the Spring Seminar 2023: An Access Review

ADASS Sponsored Content June 2023 At the Access Group we were thrilled to be in attendance at the Spring Seminar again this year. It was great to be a part of so many discussions about the value data can have to increase visibility across the care market. Through sharing our experiences with other like-minded professionals, […]
30 June 2024
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Day two from ADASS Spring Seminar 2023: New President’s speech

New ADASS President, Beverley Tarka, opened the second day of Spring Seminar with a powerful speech about her experience as a carer and the work she’s been doing in Haringey for more than thirty years to improve care and support for people in her community. She outlined her priorities as President in 2023/24 including a […]
30 June 2024
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The Cost of Care is far above the funding available

The government has required councils to undertake a ‘Cost of Care’ exercise with their local care providers and to publish the results on the 1st  February 2023. Sarah McClinton, ADASS President said: “The Cost of Care exercises have been challenging and time consuming for councils and for those providers that responded. However, they have been […]
30 June 2024
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ADASS Appoints New Joint Chief Executive

Today ADASS (the Association for Directors of Adult Social Services) announces that Anna Hemmings has been appointed as its new Joint Chief Executive alongside Cathie Williams and will be taking up the post early in the New Year. Anna joins the charity at a critical time for the organisation, as it works to build a […]
30 June 2024
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ADASS’s new President, Beverley Tarka’s keynote speech

It is a privilege to be speaking with you today on this platform. I am honoured and humbled to be taking on the Presidency of ADASS. “Made in Haringey” was the title of a career talk I did some years ago, reflecting the fact that my career in social care started and developed over a […]
30 June 2024
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Adult Social Care reform announcement response

Social care transforms the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, but it’s in crisis. The Government published an ambitious plan to reform adult social care in 2021. But some of the start-up funding is now being held back and reform looks like it will stall at a time when it’s needed more than ever. […]
30 June 2024
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Time to act to save social care in England

With waiting lists spiralling leaving many of us who are older or disabled without the care we need, carers burnt out and staff leaving, social care leaders warn “we’ve run out of road” to carry on like this as they publish a roadmap to transform adult social care in England. Time to act: a roadmap […]
30 June 2024
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