Welcome

Welcome to the ADASS Website - the home of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and the voice of adult social care. Whether you're just browsing, or if you have more specific objectives in mind, select from the extensive menu above and take your own path to the information you are seeking. The site contains the whole range of policy initiatives, press releases and consultation responses that constitute so much of the daily activity of the Association's members, and is regularly updated.

If you wish to contact the Association just click on the About Us button, and the full email, postal and telephone contact details of ADASS officers and staff are readily available. Alternatively, if you wish to contact an individual director of adult social services, then you can find them listed separately by authority and name on the same page.

 

At the bottom of each page you'll find an address to where you can post comments or observations about this site. Do use it: we will value your views.

 

President's Blog

In her June blog in advance of the Green Paper expected at the end of the month, Jenny Owen reflects upon the pressing need to bring more resources in an equitable way into the social care system. But argues that meanwhile, using reverse auctions - so-called e-auctions - in order to put downward pressure on costs is best ruled out of the equation.

 

President's Blog, June 2009

 

 

National Director, Social Care Transformation

 

Read more about Jeff Jerome,
National Director for Social Care Transformation