The Carer #40 Spring 2018

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Educating Public About the Value of Social Care is the ‘Single Most Important Task’

Helping the public to recognise the importance of social care will be “the most essential task” for the social care sector as it engages with the Government’s upcoming green paper on social care, the incoming President of the Association of Directors of Social Services (ADASS) set out in his inaugural speech earlier this month. Glen Garrod, The Director of Adult Social Services for Lincolnshire, who now assumes the responsibility for representing adult social care nationally for the next year, also says that delivering individual, person-centred care is essential to support our ageing population.

“Whether it’s the young adult with a profound disability or the grandparent with dementia, social care is there for us when we are at our most vulnerable. Helping the public to understand our contribution is perhaps our single most important task over the next year. They are the force for change to be reckoned with, the power to be harnessed,” Mr Garrod will argued in his inaugural speech. The preventative and essential role of social care is often less well understood by the public when compared to the NHS’ front-line services. Adult social care services face an overall £2 billion shortfall in their finances by 2020. “We can already see the impact of this in care homes closing and home care providers handing back con-

tracts. ADASS is preparing to make the case that investment in social care reaps rewards, for instance in significantly reducing the numbers of people stuck in hospital over the last six months, as part of its approach to the upcoming green paper.” He said With the Government’s green paper and work concerning working age adults on social care due in coming months, ADASS will focus on galvanising public opinion to ensure that the government can deliver a long-term funding proposal for social care so we all know what we are responsible for and so that we can feel secure for ourselves, for our families and for all of our futures in coming months.

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