1. Margaret Willcox OBE President, ADASS 2 November 2017
Priorities for ADASS
Margaret Willcox OBE
President, ADASS
2 November 2017

2. Distinctive Valued and Personal
We want to see a system that is protected, aligned, and re-designed
To achieve this there are five immediate priorities:
To ensure that social care funding is protected and aligned with the NHS
Ensuring that the level of quality is sufficient
To ensure that new social and health care delivery models prioritise the need for:
Good information and advice
The recognition that we are all interdependent
Services that help us get back on track after illness
Build a sustainable workforce.
To strengthen local accountability and innovation by developing local Health and Wellbeing Boards

3. Priorities 17/18 Markets, quality and safeguarding
Resources, short and long term
Sustainable health and care systems
Mental Health – AMHPs
Personalised support into employment
These priorities will be underpinned by:
Transforming Care Programme
National Carers’ Strategy

4. Green paper Need to publish something very soon
Welcome the additional £2 billion announced in the Budget - only a short term fix and has already been spent 6 times over - often being used to protect existing services
Councils have prioritised social care in the past few years (it accounts for 36.9% of all their spending compared to 30% in 2010) but ASC has made savings of over £6 billion since 2010.
Funding didn’t keep pace with demographic change and increased complexity. At least 400,000 fewer people are getting publicly funded help.

5. Priorities for the Green Paper (1)
From our Autumn Short Survey (of 96 responses):
84 councils believed that a long-term financial model for adult social care is a high priority.
79 councils - clear commitment to sustainable care markets (high priority 55 councils and priority 24 councils).
71 - understanding of need for managed transition to new financial model (high priority 39 councils and priority 32 councils)
68 - recognition of ASC in its own right, supporting people in terms of inclusion and engagement and promoting the social model (39 high priority and a priority 29 councils)
43 councils saw pensions and benefits consultation as a priority or high priority and 32 councils saw consultation on insurance options as a priority or a high priority.

6. Priorities for the Green Paper (2)
Other suggested priorities included:
social care workforce recruitment and retention
further support for joint work across health, housing and social care
a focus on ‘place’ and asset-based approaches
attention to working age adults and not just older people
clear timescales associated with publication and implementation
a focus on sustainability – redesigning system

7. How will technology feature in a re-designed system?
Individuals and their carers
Engagement, reducing isolation, information, monitoring health, well being and safety, memory support etc
Families and communities
Co-ordinating activities, alerting and reassuring, prevention and communication
Frontline workers
Integrated and real time information, professional development resources, expert advice

8. ADASS assistive technology toolkit
An interactive toolkit - how assistive technology can support the areas of most concern to directors of adult social services, including detailed practice examples.
The majority of people would rather continue living independently in their home, if given the right support to do so.
Despite the growing evidence base for the success of assistive technology, in improving care for users and in delivering care more efficiently in the community, the take-up of telecare nationally is not yet achieving full scale mainstreaming.
Adult social care has not yet realised the full potential of technology enabled care. The toolkit goes some way in enabling commissioners to understand the art of the possible.