"Key to the neighbourhood health service is the Notts Care Record, which launched in summer 2025, a shared care record that consolidates data from GPs, hospitals, mental health, community services, and social care" #RealistEvaluation @neilchadborn.bsky.social www.digitalhealth.net/2025/09/nott...

Always looks like the #SocialCareFuture Gathering is being raided by the police, but I think the venue is just next to the police station…

At #socialcarefuture gathering Andy McCabe introduces the session on Fixing Adult Social Care’s plumbing and wiring

Every time I come to the social care future gathering at the friends meeting house in Manchester, I walked past this quote and can’t resist taking a picture of it

Are person-centred thinking tools the missing link in creative support planning? 🧠 Join us on Tuesday 30 July to hear how a manager in Sheffield is helping her team explore these powerful tools to improve Direct Payments. 📅 Sign up: thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/DirectPaymentEvents

At #socialcarefuture gathering there is call for radical commissioning reform. @coproisaac.bsky.social says people can feel ‘sold to the lowest bidder’ for support. Says we can’t fixate on (real) lack of money when things like approach to coproduction and equality can be changed now

Salford’s Support and Action Women’s Network choir getting #SocialCareFuture gathering off to an uplifting musical start in Manchester. Anna Severwright sets out the vision for a good life and the practical focus of SCF’s work. At @impower.bsky.social we are supporting on meaningful outcomes

"We have to remember, it isn't a house, it's a home. And when we're making changes into people's homes, they have to feel empowered and in control." says Professor Vikki McCall, researcher at @stir.ac.uk.

We don’t always hear enough from people with dementia. This is a fantastic reminder that the things that matter to us all are unifying. I loved the emphasis on reciprocity. Of course we all want to feel recognised & have opportunities to be helpful. @tlap.bsky.social @neilmcrowther.bsky.social

We have EIGHT vacancies on the IMPACT website right now - they are all super exciting opportunities to join our growing team and help support our aim of improving adult social care across the UK. Find out more and apply: impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/v...

It’s telling how much this post has resonated. I’m getting lots of messages from senior folk in govts (not just UK). I do think something has tipped - recognition of the brokenness and appetite for the craft of helping systems adapt. How to save bureaucracy from itself: medium.com/@jamestplunk...

@tlap.bsky.social @scie.org.uk @clentonf.bsky.social @socialcarefuture.bsky.social

As much as we say we do If there are two things you can get everyone in social care to agree on, it’s that coproduction is a good thing in theory, and that it’s hard in practice. The first part of that seems self-evident: social care involves putting people who seek help and people who offer help…

Nicole Samuel reflects on the European Healthcare Design Congress, where @alexfoxshared.bsky.social joined a panel on embedding #transformation in capital programmes. IMPOWER’s 4-stage framework helps close the ‘transformation gap’: impower.co.uk/2025/06/23/b... #healthtransformation #IMPOWER

Community care magazine has featured our analysis of councils spending, outcomes and CQC assurance results in adult social care: www.linkedin.com/posts/alexfo...

Getting a strong reaction to this analysis of CQC council inspection results and whether they correlate to outcomes, costs or something else…. www.linkedin.com/posts/alexfo...

Becoming strengths-based means changing systems not just practice Strengths-based practice is an important starting point, but on its own it doesn’t create high enough consistent gains in individual independence, or the kind of step change that we need across our complex systems. As the pressures…

The Essex Caring Communities Commission report from Essex County Council sets out a raft of community capacity building initiatives aimed at inclusion and prevention: www.essex.gov.uk/adult-social... and includes our Valuing Good Lives and Valuing Care approach, and @sharedlivesplus.bsky.social

Care Can't Wait - new campaign from @adass.bsky.social shining light on the importance and impact of good adult social care #therightsupport Learning Disability England members agree social care at its best, contributes to community and #GoodLives Find out more: www.adass.org.uk/care-cant-wait

Gonna get lost under the news avalanche that is the local election results, but here are the 'Term of Reference' for Baroness Louise Casey's commission on adult social care. Bit of a cloudy soup I thought www.gov.uk/government/p...

The ADASS spring seminar closes with Cabinet Office Minister @georgiagould.bsky.social: we need to draw on the strengths of communities for better public services and the power of listening to people. Successful reform builds from the ground up.

New in our Future of Healthcare blog, Nene Antonio shares practical insight on what’s needed from NHS CFOs right now. It’s not just about cutting costs; it’s about leading across systems and making smarter choices that stick. Read more: bit.ly/4d4WfUg #NHS #Health #FutureofHealthcare

“It’s about people being encouraged to take charge of their life.” Abbie-Jo Lawrence discusses what good care can look like as shares her story for our Care Can’t Wait Campaign. Visit www.adass.org.uk/care-cant-wait/ to sign our handraiser and join the movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r_eQp_tYOs

Care Minister Stephen Kinnock addresses #ADASSSpringSeminar reflecting on the value care that his mother Glenys Kinnock drew on. Begins with human rights. Social care brings independence & a full life. “For the gift of dignity that care workers offer, they must receive a fair wage.”

#ADASSSpringSeminar session on mental health with @coproisaac.bsky.social “people don’t want lots of expensive things: they want dignity and a place-based response. We need to move away from a medical model when becoming unwell often starts with social problems” @tlap.bsky.social

ADASS launches the @adass.bsky.social Coproduction Strategy with @tlap.bsky.social -Ensure an inclusive & accessible workspace -Stir in consistent lived experience insight -Keep your pantry stocked (with experts) -Use a prep checklist -Follow (& share) a house recipe -Keep your skills sharp

Guessing @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is the first party leader to talk at @adass.bsky.social #ADASSSpringSeminar - talks about the strong reaction to talking about support for his son who has a learning disability and his wife Emily talking about her MS

“By amplifying real-life stories, proving how well-funded and supported social care can help people to thrive, we can show why it warrants further investment,” @jessmcp.bsky.social, discusses our new Care Can’t Wait campaign in the MJ.

At #ADASSSpringSeminar @jessmcp.bsky.social new @adass.bsky.social President says she will be guided by Camden’s mantra ‘to love is to act’ in her Presidential year

We are working with @adass.bsky.social @socialcarefuture.bsky.social & LGA on recommendations for a new way to measure outcomes in adult social care. At Session on outcomes at @adass.bsky.social Pete Sidgwick says current surveys of people using support can be 25 pages long, so rarely completed.

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has today launched a bold new campaign, Care Can’t Wait, to help change the way the public and politicians view #AdultSocialCare and support. 2/5

4 in 5 of us will need adult social care in our lifetime—yet many are still unaware of what it is and why it is so important. 1/5

How is CQC changing? Julian Hartley and @jamesbullion.bsky.social are at @adass.bsky.social Spring Seminar. CQC is: - clearing inspection and registration backlogs - fixing their systems - rebuilding culture & relationships

Fantastic discussion at #ADASSspringseminar25 with Abbie-Jo Lawrence talking as a person with lived experience of social care. Her key line: “It’s about what’s strong, not what’s wrong”, how choice and control is central to enabling people to lead their own unique gloriously ordinary lives.

At #ADASSSpringSeminar25 incoming President @jessmcp.bsky.social talks about the importance of telling a positive story to the public about social care and what people achieve, not just the funding crisis. @adass.bsky.social and @socialcarefuture.bsky.social are launching the #CareCantWait campaign

Melanie Williams @adass.bsky.social reflects on her year as President of the Directors Association. ‘Coproduction is written through’ ADASS and its next Presidents. @tlap.bsky.social @socialcarefuture.bsky.social @clentonf.bsky.social @mroutled.bsky.social

Living it Up get @adass.bsky.social #ADASSSpringSeminar25 off to a flying musical start. Come and find us on our @impower.bsky.social stand and at our seminar Tuesday lunchtime on creating positive change in tough times

Untitled With Tameside Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, and City of Wolverhampton Council, we will be sharing learning about how to create positive change in tough times in our 1pm workshop at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Spring Seminar, with ADASS's 24/25…

Such a privilege once again, to witness people with dementia coming together for the first time feeling safe to pipe up without feeling stupid or that they'll be interrupted or corrected or struggle to get the right words out - a space to get a word in edgeways! @louiseheatley.bsky.social

A BBC investigation into seclusion facilities, also known as calming or safe rooms, uncovered serious failings across multiple schools. We support urgent revisions to the DfE draft guidance and advocate a rights-based approach to prevent harm to vulnerable children. www.ndti.org.uk/news/bbc-inv...

We met 80+ Notts County Council staff to talk about www.wigo.org.uk Q: ‘We’re all getting older...a care home or home ‘calls’ can be the only option. Is this what we want? Read wigo.org.uk/nottinghamsh... & join us @socialcarefuture.bsky.social @vicrayner.bsky.social @alexfoxshared.bsky.social

Public satisfaction with adult #socialcare remains at an all-time low, with just 13% of people saying they are very or quite satisfied, according to the new British Social Attitudes survey. But we’re still at least 2.5 years away from promise of reform. Short thread ⬇️

Sarah McClinton the new Chief Social Worker at DHSC shares her learning on strengths-based practice as former Camden DASS. As CQC said: early help is not focused just on eligible needs but centres equity, empowerment and prevention. Credits 3 Conversations model as part of that shift.

9 jigsaw pieces for strengths based practice to flourish including culture, joined up processes, evidence, trust, listening, leadership, professional autonomy, citizen involvement. It only happens when we work at community and neighbourhood level says Jenny Pitts of @ndtihello.bsky.social

Good to hear that strengths-based Local Area Coordination is going strong in a number of councils- connecting people and communities with huge preventative benefits for isolated individuals and sustainable public services

How do we get beyond seeing only problems, and seeing people’s lives and potential? says Pip Cannon of @commcats.bsky.social We think beyond service land

The recent history and possible future of strengths based practice is taking shape at the Birmingham University IMPACT summit… great to see @clentonf.bsky.social @commcats.bsky.social @ewandking.bsky.social @lynromeo.bsky.social @jonglasby.bsky.social @nicksinclair.bsky.social @ndtihello.bsky.social

Impact.bham.ac.uk summit on Strengths-based practice. Former Chief Social Worker @lynromeo.bsky.social cites Leeds building community as key to embedding strengths-based preventation into social care. Barriers include eligibility frameworks pushing SWs into focusing on a narrow range of needs

At the Birmingham University IMPACT Summit on strengths-based practice, coproduction advisor Luke Nash sets out what independence means to him

Four steps towards healthier social care provider markets “We are in a sellers’ market in adult social care: a few specialist providers have us over a barrel.” “We have nearly 700 providers in our area: it’s impossible to shape such a fragmented market.” I’ve heard versions of these two statements…