Remit
The Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee (HCAN) has lead responsibility for the following policy areas:
- Children and young people in care
- Child health, including complex health needs
- Child and parental mental health
- Children with learning disabilities
- Children with special educational needs.
The Committee liaises closely with the Association’s Educational Achievement Policy Committee with regards to the educational outcomes of learners living in care or those with SEND as well as with a range of partners and stakeholders in the voluntary and health sector. The Committee also provides the formal link between the Association and the National Adoption Leadership Board.
Meeting Dates
- 31 January 2020
- 7 May 2020
- 18 September 2020
- 1 December 2020
Contacts
Chair: Charlotte Ramsden.
ADCS Policy Officer: Esther Kavanagh Dixon supports the work of the committee. To contact Esther, email esther@adcs.org.uk
Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee Articles
Placing English children in Scottish children’s homes comment
In Residential Care
Oxfordshire County Council guidance on use of Mental Capacity Act 2005 in...
In Mental Health
Educational Achievement Policy Committee and Health, Care & Additional...
In General
A health care system that works for all children
In Health and Wellbeing
Rachel Dickinson responds to the Education Select Committee’s SEND...
In General
ADCS responds to the announcement on a NHS inpatient quality taskforce for...
In Health and Wellbeing
ADCS, CVAA, LGA statement on the adoption inter-agency fee.
In Adoption
ADCS response to the national fostering stocktake call for evidence
In Fostering
Language is so important, it affects the way we see people and situations...
In General
ADCS response to the Department for Education’s call for evidence on...
In SEN and Disability
Comment on the latest care demand statistics from Cafcass
In General Care
Charlotte Ramsden, Chair of the ADCS Health, Care and Additional Needs...
In General
Comment: OCC report on spending on children’s mental health
In Mental Health
Comment on the suspension of the National Adoption Register