Phil Holmes: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- incoming president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care (ADASS), currently executive director of adults, wellbeing and culture at City of Doncaster Council
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 10
- Most recently quoted
- 4 Oct 2026
“Baroness Casey has described the need for a national conversation about adult social care. It is essential that we keep everybody who draws on care and support, and everybody who gives care and support, in the tent. Adult social care reform is not about health conditions, it's about human rights.”
What Phil Holmes has said
“If my presidency over the next year stands for one thing, it will be social justice.”
President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services; Executive Director of Adults, Wellbeing and Culture at Doncaster Council · Adult social care & reform · 4 Oct 2026 · ADASS's new president on Casey, fair pay for care staff and his social work values ↗
“Equity is not a bonus or a nice-to-have. It is a legal, ethical and financial imperative.”
President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services · Adult social care & reform · 30 Sept 2026 · Equity must be at ‘heart’ of government’s social care reform plan ↗
“But we cannot afford to wait until the next general election in 2029 or the recommendations of the Casey Commission in 2027 to act.”
president of Adass (Association of Directors of Adult Social Care) · Adult social care & reform · 30 Sept 2026 · Adass: ‘Care reform cannot wait until next election’ ↗
“The ongoing reduction in the number of people receiving NHS continuing healthcare flies in the face of our ageing population. Increasingly frequent funding disputes are leaving people and families facing uncertainty about whether they will get the care they need, or whether their existing care will continue to be possible. This year's ADASS survey provides even more evidence that NHS continuing healthcare urgently needs national reform.”
ADASS president · Adult social care & reform · 30 Sept 2026 · Councils overspent social care budgets by £715m last year after picking up bill for NHS cuts, finds ADASS ↗
“Panel member”
president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equity ↗
“Panel member discussing care equity as a core component of a National Care Service”
president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equity ↗
“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.”
President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass); executive director of adults, wellbeing and culture at Doncaster MBC · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Introducing Adass’ president of ‘rage’ ↗
“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’ ↗
Where Phil Holmes has been quoted
- New ADASS president to set out his visionhealthcare-management.uk · 4 Oct 2026
- ADASS's new president on Casey, fair pay for care staff and his social work valuescommunitycare.co.uk · 4 Oct 2026
- Equity must be at ‘heart’ of government’s social care reform plannursingtimes.net · 30 Sept 2026
- Adass: ‘Care reform cannot wait until next election’lgcplus.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Councils overspent social care budgets by £715m last year after picking up bill for NHS cuts, finds ADASScommunitycare.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equitycarehomeprofessional.com · 29 Sept 2026
- SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equitycaring-times.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Introducing Adass’ president of ‘rage’lgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
- What the National Care Service might mean for councilslgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
- Adass: ‘Social care reform must top new PM’s in-tray’lgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
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