ADCS response to new support for victims of domestic abuse

Barely a day goes by without hearing about another senseless act of violence or...

​Comment on the Association’s DCS Update 2019

ADCS DCS Update analysis focussing on the ADCS membership year 1 April 2018 to...

ADCS President 2019/20, Rachel Dickinson’s inaugural speech

EU Settlement Scheme - Local Authority & Health and Social Care Trust...

Comment on the safeguarding of children missing from care and out of area...

ADCS response to the Public Accounts Committee report on children’s social...

ADCS response to the national evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme...

ADCS column on poverty for the MJ

Update from joint FCYP and HCAN policy comittee meeting

Update from Joint meeting of RS and EA Policy Committees

Update from the Standards, Performance & Inspection Policy Committee for...

​ADCS column on Brexit for the MJ

Comment on children’s services inspection and demand figures

Yorkshire & Humber Region Update December 2018

West Midlands Region Update December 2018

South West Region Update December 2018

Sector-Led Improvement • All 19 authorities have agreed to...

North West Region Update December 2018

North East Region Update December 2018

Greater London Region Update December 2018

East Midlands Region Update December 2018

Eastern Region Update December 2018

The Workforce Development Policy Committee met on 30 November in London to...

The Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee met in London on 28...

Members of the Association’s Resources & Sustainability and the Standards,...

The Workforce Development and Families, Communities & Young People Policy...

The Educational Achievement and the Families, Communities & Young People...

The Educational Achievement and the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy...

Presentations

NCASC18 President’s Address comment

Stuart Gallimore’s Presidential address at the 2018 National Children and...

Children’s Services Policy Context

Comment on serious incident notifications by local authorities

Commenting on a report by the OCC into vulnerable babies in England

Children’s Services Statutory Duties

Comment on statistics on the timeliness of care proceedings in the family court

Comment on the government’s Civil Society Strategy

​Comment on local authority statutory duties in relation to children

A comment on the use of out of area placements for children in care

Speeches and presentations from the ADCS Annual Conference 2018

President’s address at ADCS annual conference 2018

President’s conference speech

APPG for Youth Affairs – ADCS evidence for the youth work inquiry

Comment on the DCS Update 2018

ADCS DCS update 2018 - Comment

ADCS DCS Update - 2018

Stuart Gallimore’s Inaugural Presidential Speech

Response to the government’s Serious Violence Strategy

​ADCS Annual Conference 2019 Programme

Annual Conference 2018

Comment on reshuffle

Social mobility action plan

Rachael Wardell, Chair of the ADCS Workforce Development Policy Committee,...

Update from Standalone Resources & Sustainability meeting - Autumn 2017

Update from standalone meeting of the Standards, Performance & Inspection...

Update from the Heath, Care & Additional Needs and Resources &...

Update from Standards, Performance & Inspection and Resources &...

​Update from Families, Communities & Young People and Workforce...

Update from the Educational Achievement and Health, Care & Additional Needs...

Update of an ongoing example of region’s increasingly integrated and...

Future ADCS Vice President

ADCS Vice President 2018/19

Speech from Minister of State for Children and Families, Robert Goodwill.

Alison Michalska speech at A country that works for all children session

Alison Michalska’s speech to NCASC 2017, Bournemouth

ADCS Policy Position Paper - A Country That Works For All Children

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) today publishes a...

ADCS President’s opening address National Children and Adult Services...

ADCS President, Alison Michalska, comments on a recent duty placed on local...

Joint statement on an agreement between ADCS and Cafcass which has now been...

ADCS President, Alison Michalska, comments on a new report by Action for...

​President’s speech at annual conference

Annual Conference 2017 Presidential Address

Presentations and speeches from Annual Conference 2017

ADCS response to the measures announced in the Queen’s speech

Mental wellbeing advice following the Manchester Arena Incident

This document aims to bring together key proposals in the Conservative and...

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) today, 28 April,...

ADCS annual DCS analysis report

Comment on the announcement of a snap general election

Inaugural speech from ADCS President, Alison Michalska

​ADCS comments on recent price increases for placing children and young people...

ADCS President comments on the benefits of a peer support programme for the...

Comment on the Spring Budget 2017

Update and work plan for the Workforce Development Policy Committee

​Update and work plan for the Standards, Performance & Inspection Policy...

Update and work plan for the Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee

​Update and future plans for the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy...

Update and future work plan for the Families, Communities & Young People...

Update and future work plans from the Educational Achievement Policy Committee

Comment on future ADCS Vice President, Stuart Gallimore

Comment on the launch of six new ‘opportunity areas’

Comment on outsourcing in children’s services and the recently published...

Families, Communities & Young People and Standards, Performance &...

Update from the Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee for the December...

Update from the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee for the...

Educational Achievement Policy Committee and Workforce Development Policy...

ADCS President’s opening address National Children and Adult Services...

EU Settlement Scheme - Local Authority & Health and Social Care Trust...

Update from joint FCYP and HCAN policy comittee meeting

Update from Joint meeting of RS and EA Policy Committees

Update from the Standards, Performance & Inspection Policy Committee for...

Yorkshire & Humber Region Update December 2018

West Midlands Region Update December 2018

South West Region Update December 2018

Sector-Led Improvement • All 19 authorities have agreed to...

North West Region Update December 2018

North East Region Update December 2018

Greater London Region Update December 2018

East Midlands Region Update December 2018

Eastern Region Update December 2018

The Workforce Development Policy Committee met on 30 November in London to...

The Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee met in London on 28...

Members of the Association’s Resources & Sustainability and the Standards,...

The Workforce Development and Families, Communities & Young People Policy...

The Educational Achievement and the Families, Communities & Young People...

The Educational Achievement and the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy...

Presentations

Children’s Services Policy Context

Children’s Services Statutory Duties

Speeches and presentations from the ADCS Annual Conference 2018

​ADCS Annual Conference 2019 Programme

Annual Conference 2018

Update from Standalone Resources & Sustainability meeting - Autumn 2017

Update from standalone meeting of the Standards, Performance & Inspection...

Update from Standards, Performance & Inspection and Resources &...

​Update from Families, Communities & Young People and Workforce...

Update from the Educational Achievement and Health, Care & Additional Needs...

Update of an ongoing example of region’s increasingly integrated and...

ADCS Vice President 2018/19

Presentations and speeches from Annual Conference 2017

Update and work plan for the Workforce Development Policy Committee

​Update and work plan for the Standards, Performance & Inspection Policy...

Update and work plan for the Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee

​Update and future plans for the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy...

Update and future work plan for the Families, Communities & Young People...

Update and future work plans from the Educational Achievement Policy Committee

Families, Communities & Young People and Standards, Performance &...

Update from the Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee for the December...

Update from the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee for the...

Educational Achievement Policy Committee and Workforce Development Policy...

Updates from the Health, Care & Additional Needs and Resources &...

​Update from the Families, Communities & Young People and Workforce...

Richard Selwyn on next practice in children’s services

Presentations and Speeches from the 2016 ADCS Annual Conference

Changing the Narrative About the Care System: Views from Children and Young...

​Latest update from the Workforce Development Policy Committee

Latest update from the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee

Latest update from Families, Communities & Young People and Resources &...

Update from the Educational Achievement and Standards, Performance &...

Latest updates from the Educational Achievement and Resources &...

Latest update from the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee

Latest update from the Yorkshire & Humber region

Latest update from the West Midlands region

Latest update from the South West region

​Latest update from the South East region

Latest update from the North West region

Latest update form the North East region

Latest update from the Greater London region

Latest update from the East Midlands region

Latest update from the Standards Performance & Inspection Policy Committee

Latest update from the Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee

Latest update from the Families, Communities & Young People Policy Committee

​The latest update from the Workforce Development Policy Committee

​The latest updates from the Educational Achievement Policy Committee

​ADCS, ADASS and RiP event

The latest updates from the Workforce Development Policy Committee

The latest updates from the Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee

The latest update from the Health, Care and Additional Needs Policy Committee

The latest updates from the Families, Communities & Young People Policy...

The latest updates from the Educational Achievement Policy Committee

Latest update from the Standards, Performance and Inspection Policy Committee

Dave Hill, ADCS Vice President 2015-16, talks about the importance of ADCS...

North East ADCS ADASS Masterclass programme for Nov 2015 - Feb 2016

Statutory Guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Director of...

Update for September 2015 Council of Reference meeting.

Update for September 2015 Council of Reference meeting.

Update for the September 2015 Council of Reference meeting.

​Update for September 2015 Council of Reference meeting.

Update for September 2015 Council of Reference meeting.

Bridging the Divide: Dez Holmes, RiP; Linda Uren, Gloucestershire & Jon...

RS Summer 2015 Update

​WD Summer 2015 Update

FCYP and SPI Summer 2015 Update

EA and HCAN 2015 Summer Update

Test

ADCS response to new support for victims of domestic abuse

Barely a day goes by without hearing about another senseless act of violence or...

​Comment on the Association’s DCS Update 2019

Comment on the safeguarding of children missing from care and out of area...

ADCS response to the Public Accounts Committee report on children’s social...

ADCS response to the national evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme...

ADCS column on poverty for the MJ

​ADCS column on Brexit for the MJ

Comment on children’s services inspection and demand figures

NCASC18 President’s Address comment

Comment on serious incident notifications by local authorities

Commenting on a report by the OCC into vulnerable babies in England

Comment on statistics on the timeliness of care proceedings in the family court

Comment on the government’s Civil Society Strategy

​Comment on local authority statutory duties in relation to children

A comment on the use of out of area placements for children in care

President’s address at ADCS annual conference 2018

Comment on the DCS Update 2018

ADCS DCS update 2018 - Comment

Response to the government’s Serious Violence Strategy

Comment on reshuffle

Social mobility action plan

Rachael Wardell, Chair of the ADCS Workforce Development Policy Committee,...

Update from the Heath, Care & Additional Needs and Resources &...

Future ADCS Vice President

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) today publishes a...

ADCS President’s opening address National Children and Adult Services...

ADCS President, Alison Michalska, comments on a recent duty placed on local...

Joint statement on an agreement between ADCS and Cafcass which has now been...

ADCS President, Alison Michalska, comments on a new report by Action for...

​President’s speech at annual conference

ADCS response to the measures announced in the Queen’s speech

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) today, 28 April,...

Comment on the announcement of a snap general election

​ADCS comments on recent price increases for placing children and young people...

ADCS President comments on the benefits of a peer support programme for the...

Comment on the Spring Budget 2017

Comment on future ADCS Vice President, Stuart Gallimore

Comment on the launch of six new ‘opportunity areas’

Comment on outsourcing in children’s services and the recently published...

ADCS President’s opening address National Children and Adult Services...

Comment on Demos’ report on commissioning in children’s services

Our members are clear that independently owned children’s homes and fostering...

Comment on LGO review

Comment on the sudden death of Harold Bodmer

ADCS Annual Conference 2016 Presidential Address

Response to measures announced in the Queen’s speech

Response to early reporting on the Queen’s speech

ADCS response to the Budget 2016 announcements on academisation

​Comment on the publication of Pillars & Foundations

Comment on innovation in children’s services

Comment on the announcements made on Thursday 14 January by the Secretary of...

Comment on new ADCS Vice President, Alison Michalska

Further comment on the series of Prime Ministerial announcements made today

Comment on a series of Prime Ministerial announcements

On Wednesday 14th October 2015, Alison O’Sullivan, President of the...

On Thursday 9th July 2015, Alison O’Sullivan, President of the Association of...

​Update and future plans for the Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy...

APPG for Youth Affairs – ADCS evidence for the youth work inquiry

ADCS Policy Position Paper - A Country That Works For All Children

ADCS has produced this short suite of policy position papers

In an increasingly autonomous and diverse education and children’s services...

ADCS DCS Update analysis focussing on the ADCS membership year 1 April 2018 to...

ADCS DCS Update - 2018

ADCS annual DCS analysis report

The Staff College report

DCS Update report 2016

Pillars & Foundations: Next practice in children’s services - A Think...

ADCS gathers and records information about changes in post holders of the...

ADCS President 2019/20, Rachel Dickinson’s inaugural speech

Stuart Gallimore’s Presidential address at the 2018 National Children and...

President’s conference speech

Stuart Gallimore’s Inaugural Presidential Speech

Speech from Minister of State for Children and Families, Robert Goodwill.

Alison Michalska speech at A country that works for all children session

Alison Michalska’s speech to NCASC 2017, Bournemouth

Annual Conference 2017 Presidential Address

Inaugural speech from ADCS President, Alison Michalska

Dave Hill’s Presidential speech to the National Children and Adult Serviecs...

Dave Hill’s Presidential Speech at ADCS Annual Conference 2016.

Dave Hill’s Presidential speech

​ADCS President, Alison O’Sullivan’s speech to the 2015 National Children...

ADCS DCS Update analysis focussing on the ADCS membership year 1 April 2018 to...

Reason has published research governance resources, which have been endorsed by...

The Workforce Development Policy Committee met on 30 November in London to...

Mental wellbeing advice following the Manchester Arena Incident

This document aims to bring together key proposals in the Conservative and...

ADCS summary of the 2015 Queen’s Speech.

ADCS President letter to Secretary of State, Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, May 2015