Directors of adult social services are poised today to hear how the Government plans to provide care for children and adults in the light of the financial downturn at this year's National Children and Adult Services annual conference in Liverpool.
Hosted by the Association of Directors of Adults' Social Service's, the conference will go on until Friday with big name speakers including LGA leader Cllr Margaret Eaton, Lord Andrew Adonis, Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP and Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP. Speakers will also include councilors and service users.
The hot topics will be the Green Paper on the future of adult social care and the personalisation agenda and associated regulation.
Sessions will include children's services, social care, choice, education, lifelong learning, innovation and excellence in service provision. Another key theme will be supporting the staff that deliver these services.
President of the association and executive director of adults & children for West Sussex Council, John Dixon, said: ‘We are wrestling with some of the most complicated but vital issues in social care. None of the issues can be isolated from the current economic and financial complications which the nation faces and the likelihood those might have on the work we do and the way in which we do it.
