Sector leader
President of Adass; executive director of adults, health and wellbeing at Doncaster City Council
Press citations
3
Topic
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Adult social care & reform
Last quoted
Sept 2026
“At times my career has felt like an endlessly repeating cycle of centrally driven initiatives informed by top-down, command and control, knowing-the-cost-of-everything-and-the value-of-nothing, deckchairs on the Titanic leadership that insisted on starting from the same ivory tower and repeating the same old results... Co-production is about starting somewhere different, about designing out poor experience and wasteful use of resources and creating the right conditions alongside our residents and our workforce that will help them flourish.”
“The paradox is that the National Care Service has been spoken about for a long time, but we're nonetheless at an early stage of articulation. If you ask 10 people what they thought it meant, you would get 10 different answers.”
president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · What the National Care Service might mean for councils ↗
“The latest survey 'highlights the disconnect between government ambitions for adult social care and the funding provided to deliver them'. Councils continue to be placed under huge financial pressure, with no signs of this abating.”
President of Adass; executive director of adults, health and wellbeing at Doncaster City Council · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Adass: ‘Social care reform must top new PM’s in-tray’ ↗
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