Melanie Williams: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Past president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass); executive director for adult social care and health in Nottinghamshire CC
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Press citations held
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“We cannot vision for a tomorrow when the cost of today has become so insurmountable”
What Melanie Williams has said
“For DHT to be successful, Adass is very clear that this shift needs to be done properly; it needs to be consciously commissioned by the local council or integrated care board, rather than happening on an ad hoc basis.”
President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass); corporate director for adult social care and public health, Nottinghamshire CC · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Melanie Williams: Safeguards needed when increasing care workers’ clinical duties ↗
“Good quality social care depends on a caring, committed and well-trained workforce. Recruitment and particularly retention of staff remains a huge challenge, with around a quarter of care workers leaving their roles each year and we know that part of this is because our workforce leaves for better paid work or for development.”
President of the Association of Adult Social Services · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Low pay cited as major adult social care staffing challenge ↗
“to enable people with health needs to live well at home and leave hospital successfully, health needs to work well with councils and such significant reductions in ICBs are a risk to that”
Past president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass); executive director for adult social care and health in Nottinghamshire CC · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · ICB cuts risk ‘drop in outcomes’ ↗
Where Melanie Williams has been quoted
- NICs increase ‘already impacting’ social care costslgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
- Melanie Williams: Safeguards needed when increasing care workers’ clinical dutieslgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
- Low pay cited as major adult social care staffing challengelgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
- ICB cuts risk ‘drop in outcomes’lgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
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