Volume 5 • Issue 3 • October 2012 www.adass.org.uk FUTURES Landscape hardening... Plus Norman Lamb in focus Plus Tribute to Lord Alf Morris PAGE 2 PAGE 6 PAGE 14 PAGE 18 Sandie Andrea Richard John Keene Pope-Smith Webb Ransford Our take on Learning the Bringing How to pay the social lessons from North and for Dilnot care Olympic Winterbourne South and the Games View together funding gap Comment An Olympian Service WEREN’T WE ALL completely enthralled It is down to us, as leaders in social They will not do this without playing a by the Olympic and Paralympic games care, to harness and direct the potential full part in releasing and empowering this summer? What amazing feats that so many people harbour, to make the potential of the whole system. of bravery, courage, resilience, skill, a difference. There is no more important challenge dedication and hard work. Our gold medals are people’s lives than our current funding dilemma. We think principally of athletes, of released from dependency, diverted While we are well on the way to medals and individual and team from engagement with the care system, implementing the Health and Social Care endeavour. But supporting them were supported to direct their own care and Act, we are also dealing with the worst armies of physios, medics, trainers safeguarded from harm. fiscal challenge in decades. We watch and managers. Behind them were the cautiously for signs of the white smoke families and friends, whose support has The other day, I met the leader of a new, of a long-term funding solution but have been lifelong and unconditional. user-led addiction recovery service, so far only seen wisps of dry ice at the created from one person’s idea and opening ceremony! Making the whole thing happen were already in touch with 25 recovering the teams who created and funded addicts. She has a clear vision of If we succeed in our Olympic effort the bid, built the remarkable facilities, developing a ‘hub’ for activities and, in by unlocking the potential of our planned and executed the events. There her own words, “keeping people well in communities, what will be our legacy? were the volunteers who welcomed and order to reach the potential we didn’t It will be measured by how we have guided visitors. And there were people think we could.” In unlocking her own assisted every member of society to of all nations who cheered their heroes potential, she is now doing the same achieve his or her personal Olympian to perform their ultimate best. for many more. For me, here is the goal and galvanised communities as active partners in the endeavour. We, the In Adult Social Care, our Olympic Olympic future. Team GB support team of public service, challenge is not so much winning races The attributes that will keep us all in are here to facilitate and mobilise effort as releasing people’s potential to peak Olympic condition (and allow us to and endeavour when required. live lives fulfilled, independent, safe release our own potential) are those of and self-governing. skill and resolve to make a difference. We How we organise and deploy the resources at our disposal will impact on There are many ways of releasing have ambitions of Olympian proportions the outcomes they achieve. We must potential and, as we have seen, those and as with any athlete, also need the set aside silos and differences, support fantastic 2012 London Games didn’t just resilience to get up and carry on when innovation and have the inspirational bring success to super-fit athletes, but to things get tough. We are team players, vision to make the difference this time. many others besides. supporting others in the squad and playing for our country. Just as London 2012 rose to the In our imaginary Olympic sport of challenge of producing the ‘best games releasing potential, there are elite Health and Wellbeing Boards will provide ever’, so must we now produce our best athletes, but there are other participants, the system leadership to take our task results ever. supporters and enablers of many kinds. forward. They need to achieve fully their All of these have huge potential to own potential to bring maximum benefit Sandie Keene contribute to our common goal. to our communities. Vice President, ADASS In this issue 3 Upfront Norman Lamb sets up his 14 An untidy future? ADASS Honorary 25 An end to silly arguments: John round table... Praise for Jo Williams... Secretary Richard Webb in profile Jackson tells it how it is in Oxfordshire ASC guide for leaders and Chief Execs... Winterbourne View reviewed... 17 Cutting Edge: The MJ’s Jamie 27 Towards excellence: Oliver Mills gets Managing the markets... Hailstone faces the people behind the TEASC off the ground facts 8 Agenda Comings and Goings... 28 The College of Social Work: Bernard Policy review... The Business unit in profile... 18 Open Letter: John Ransford pens a Walker describes a new membership note to Jeremy Hunt... offer... 10 Landscape hardening: Sarah Pickup looks back over her first six months 20 Interview: Care Minister Norman 29 End of life: making a difference to Lamb talks to Futures how we die. Rick O’Brien reports 13 Morris major: David Townsend remembers ‘the right man at the right 23 Registration: The HCPC’s Marc Seale 32 Last Word: Bernard Walker and all time...’ explains the ins and outs... those meetings, meetings, meetings... 2 ADASS Futures, October 2012 UPFRONT WELCOME TO... ...EASTBOURNE AND TO the annual children’s and adults’ services conference. It is now some 30 years since the AMA and the ACC, Focus ‘obsessively on forerunners of the modern LGA, joined up with the old ADSS to create this conference. And six since integration’ – Minister this became a partnership between NEW CARE SERVICES Minister Norman Elsewhere he affirmed the Coalition’s ADASS, ADCS and the LGA. Lamb is planning a series of ‘round table’ commitment to Dilnot, and to the Throughout those decades it has meetings to help force the integration cross-party talks which he believes are proved the seminal yearly event in agenda between health and social care. essential to a proper settlement. A former which all aspects of social care, and Shadow Care Minister and the initiator In an interview, Mr Lamb told ADASS latterly education, have been put of the original cross party talks two years Futures that “I’m convening a round table under a microscope and given the ago he reveals that “I got drafts from the to get the key people who’ve done all the detailed sort of examination only the two of them (Andrew Lansley and Andy work on integrated care together to work top managers, politicians and policy Burnham) which I was shaping into a with the Department. Firstly this will be leaders can give it. shared document. to discuss with the Department and the And this year will prove no exception. NHS Commissioning Board how we can “But this was in the run-up to the general We shall have leading government really make this happen. election, and was rather de-railed by a ministers to take us through the bare-knuckle fight over death taxes, if “Chris Ham from the King’s Fund said in latest Coalition thinking on their you remember.” January that in the past ten years the Departments’ policies. Free schools? NHS had an obsessive focus on cutting Acknowledging that local authorities Academies? Transitions? And in adult waiting times and improving access are facing financial pressures he warns care, of course, the draft Bill and the to the service. But in this decade there that “We’re all having to live with this onward drive towards integration needs to be a similarly obsessive focus extraordinary and personalisation. And for all of on delivering integrated care as a model challenge to public us, working with people to achieve of care.” finances and the level good outcomes in the context of of the deficit and we significant budget reductions. According to the Minister: “You have to have to get that under get the right incentives into the system Many thanks to all the hundreds of control. It’s in all our to allow it to happen, rather than it people who have contributed their interests to do so.” happening as it tends to now – almost time and expertise to making this despite the system rather than because (See Power to the a memorable event; to Amanda of it.” Norman Lamb People, Page 20) Fry and her colleagues in North Yorkshire for their skill in balancing the demands of such a complicated THE ASSOCIATION PRAISED former LINDA SANDERSON HAS been elected the programme, and to Keith Hinkley President Jo Williams last month new vice president of the Association.She and his colleagues in East Sussex when she announced her retirement will take up the post next April following who have so kindly offered to help from the Chairship of the Care Quality the ADASS agm when current vice throughout this week. Commission. president Sandi Keene becomes President. I do hope you leave buzzing with “The good wishes, and the good will, of Linda was formerly Director of Adult, fresh policy initiatives and new adult social services directors will be with Community and Housing Service in Dudley solutions to problems old and new. her for the future.” before taking up her current position as And I hope you enjoy the hospitality Corporate Director of Social Care, health that Eastbourne has to offer, and Housing with the LB of Hillingdon.