The new president of the Association of Directors of Social Services has put forward his vision for social care that would see councils having a legal duty to promote the well-being of their communities.
Speaking at the National Social Services Conference, he told delegates that he wants to see councils “dumping Poor Law attitudes and approaches” which restrict care to people with the most severe needs. Instead social services should look at the social, economic and environmental “well-being” of communities.
He added that it was time to replace the framework of social services legislation that has governed adult services and produce a consolidated community care act.
