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
- 25 Jan 2021
- 17 March 2021
- 14 May 2021
- 1 October 2021
- 17 November 2021
Contacts
Chair: Edwina Grant.
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
ADCS responds to the State of the Nation’s Foster Care 2021 report
In Fostering
Commenting in CYP Now on the adoption system, Edwina Grant OBE, Chair of...
In Adoption
Briefing on the independent review of children’s social care – the case...
In General Care
Commenting on the Children’s Commissioner’s speech on the care...
In General Care
Comment on new Ofsted data on private and voluntary providers of...
In General
On Thursday we were advised that the five tests had been met and that the...
In
Charlotte Ramsden comments on temporary flexibilities in relation to SEND...
In SEN and Disability
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
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...