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Futures, March 2007 Social Services Departments Are No More… Volume 1 Issue 1 March 2007 UTURES www.adass.org.uk F On the way up ADASS, Anne Williams and a new era of care PAGE 2 PAGE 9 PAGE 24 Welcome Putting the Seizing the from the growing policy future, and Secretary of agenda into its delivering the State. wider context. vision. separation of children and adult services at a local level it is essential that this tradition A strong voice continues. ADSS played a significant leadership role in social services for for social care the past 30 years. It has shaped the development of legislation and policy, delivered the reform of social care and supported its I am delighted to welcome the members. It has provided a clear, launch of the Association of strong and strategic voice on social Directors of Adult Social services issues, and I thank Services today, and to everyone involved for their valuable acknowledge the focused voice contribution and help during my that it will give for directors in time as Secretary of State on Our the future. The development of Health, Our Care, Our Say and a distinctive organisation, many other occasions. which, together with ADCS, replaces the Association of ADASS with ADCS, is created from Directors of Social Services, is a strong and noble tradition. It will a further step in the renewed continue to provide a strong voice emphasis on social care for social care, that carries real services for adults. influence with DH and the wider world. This will be of a particular The important contribution value as we develop a future which the sector makes to the strategy to address in a sustainable social inclusion agenda and to way the challenges of demography, integration of support around the Patricia Hewitt: “ADASS has a strong role in globalisation, workforce and the needs of individuals will be further championing the needs of individuals...” future funding of social care. The emphasised by the establishment resolution of these complex issues of ADASS. will depend upon the constructive White Paper Strong and challenge of ADASS as well as on The Government has an ambitious Prosperous Communities set out an partnership and a shared vision for social care services, equally ambitious vision for local responsibility to achieve the vision based on what people have told us government, which sees local we have set. they want to see in social care councils listening to their services. communities and then shaping the In taking this opportunity to way services will be provided to welcome the new organisation, I They tell us they want services meet the needs of local people. also wish it every success for the which keep them independent in future. It has a strong role in their own homes; that are Since their creation in the early championing the needs of integrated; that offer them choice 1970s, social services departments individuals within the community and control; keep them safe; and have played an important role in and in supporting and challenging are of a high quality. working with individuals and constructively the development of communities reducing social social care in the 21st Century. That is the vision we set out in our exclusion and inequalities to ensure White Paper Our health, Our Care, that people who need help, care Patricia Hewitt, Our Say. The Local Government and support receive it. With the Secretary of State for Health Page 2, Secretary of State's welcome… Page 3, Anne Williams looks to the future of adult social care, and on Page 4 talks to Drew Clode about herself, and her hopes for ADASS… Page 7, John Beer discusses some logistics facing the new Association… Page 9, Jenny Owen and James Reilly look at some of the policy pathways ADASS will need to consider in the years to come… Page 11, How to keep children's and adult care services working together: John Coughlan discusses… Page 13, Five DASSs muse on the DASS role, how they got to where they are and how they think the role will develop. They are Ged Lucas (Stockport), Sandie Keene (Leeds), Annie Hudson (Bristol), Jeff Jerome (Richmond) and Sarah Pickup (Hertfordshire)… Page 24, John Dixon delivers the ADASS vision… 2 ADASS Futures, March 2007 Social services departments are no more… IN THEIR PLACE, councils now self assessment and self directed have children's departments, care through direct payments and bringing together education, individual budgets, and we are youth services and children's developing integrated social care. And adult social commissioning and provider care departments with services with the NHS and other directors often managing a partners. wider range of services such as housing, culture and leisure We want to build on the very and other community services powerful legacy of ADSS while as well as adult social care. recognising that we are a different organisation. As this magazine ADSS, which has been a leading shows, directors come from many voice for social care since 1972, different backgrounds and have and Confed, which has represented responsibilities for a wide range of managers in education, have services. This is a great strength therefore worked together to and enables us to deliver better establish two new associations, services for adults by drawing on ADCS and ADASS. our expertise and influence across many council services. The launch of ADASS comes at a very exciting time for directors of Strategic needs assessments adult social care. The future shape undertaken with directors of public and funding of adult social care is health and directors of children's Anne Williams: “A strong relationship with the now one of the key challenges for services will enable us better to Department of Health has been critical...” national and local government with predict needs and plan and the growing numbers of older commission services. people and people with disabilities development of national policy in requiring care. Working with a wide range of social care but also in other agencies, locally and strengthening the understanding of ADASS is committed to playing a nationally, is a great strength in the value of social care across the full role in the development of social care. ADSS developed many NHS. This will be crucial with the policies and priorities to face this strong partnerships and in ADASS implementation of the White challenge and to ensure we we will continue to build on these, Paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our commission and deliver services in working with existing and new Say. the most user-centred and cost- partners in order to meet the effective way. We will work across challenges of growing need, higher It is a huge privilege to have been all sectors to develop a range of public expectations and to enable the last vice-president of ADSS and preventive services and new us to develop the wellbeing now the first president of ADASS. I models of care. We will continue agenda. believe passionately in the value of to push for greater recognition of social care and that we can only the workforce and financial A strong relationship with the deliver the best possible services if pressures already facing adult Department of Health has been we do so in partnership across all social care. critical to the success of ADSS in sectors. being a powerful voice for social Our new roles are key to care. The establishment of the Anne Williams, developing the wellbeing agenda; social care directorate gives ADASS President, we are enthusiastically embracing new opportunities to influence the ADASS ADASS Futures, March 2007 3 Hawick is a great rugby playing town, as well as former centre for cloth manufacture, and she still We must be able remembers time out going to the local matches with her father. The family moved back to Glasgow in time for her to attend Eastwood to do better… High School, and from there go on to Glasgow University to study psychology: the first clear result of that people-directed career choice It's a simple question about Her mother, a nurse from Suffolk, she had already made. people that can illuminate a her father an officer in the army, vocation, a profession: even a they met in the ruins of north So, in 1972, armed with that first generation. Why did Anne Germany at the end of the war and degree, she took a job as a trainee Williams early on decide she decided, as so many of that clinical psychologist at Clifton had a preference for working generation did, that things really Hospital - "a pretty awful, very old- with and alongside people? could be made better, and had to fashioned long-stay hospital" just Anne, who will be the first be. "They were passionate about outside York. Fresh from University, president of the newly- building a better society. well read in the burgeoning created Association of literature on community care and Directors of Adult Social "My mother did voluntary work new methods of treating mental Services barely hesitates… and, through the church they were illness, "it was really shocking. I both involved in what you would saw people with completely She was born `up a close', as the call `good works'. We were impoverished lives, their home a Scots say, in Glasgow - a flat over a brought up in that culture that you bed on a long, Nightingale ward café from where her parents have to give something back…" with only a locker beside them." moved to the altogether quieter Paradoxically, wars produce light as town of Hawick when she was less well as shadows. She and colleagues worked to than three years old. It was her provide alternatives to the fairly parents' experiences of WW2, their So it was in Hawick, the biggest menial occupations patients were determination that the world was town on the borders, nestling provided with, some sport; there for making better that between the River Teviot and Slitrig badminton in the hall.
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