Membership is drawn from serving directors of adult social care employed by the 152 local authorities in England with social care responsibilities.
[4] ADASS issues guidance to local authorities on professional standards and the law, for example in respect of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, subsequent to the decision in the case in Cheshire West.
[5] It reports that 400,000 fewer people received social care services in England in 2014-5 than in 2009-10, despite an increasingly elderly population.
The proportion provided directly by local councils is also falling.
[6] Sarah McClinton, president of the Association, said at the annual National Children and Adult Services Conference in Manchester in November 2022 that a “staggering” number of people were not getting the care and support they needed as requests for help outstrip local councils’ ability to provide it.