Social Care and Health: A New Deal?

Papers from the 2001 ADSS/PSI Annual Seminar
Edited by Isobel Allen

This Discussion Paper brings together the papers delivered at the annual seminar held by the Association of Directors of Social Services and Policy Studies Institute in 2001..

The seminar was designed to look back over the development of the welfare state and the changing profile of personal social services since the Seebohm Report. The aim was to look behind organisational change to see how values and cultures in health and social care have evolved over the years and to assess what the future holds.

Contents:

• State, Society and Compassion: Altruism and Individualism
  Nick Timmins, Public Policy Editor, Financial Times
• The Paradox of Prosperity
  Captain Bill Cochrane, Head of External Relations, The Salvation Army
• Social Services Departments and the Health/Social Care Boundary: Players or Pawns?
  Professor Jane Lewis, Barnett Professor of Social Policy, University of Oxford
• Seebohm: An Ambition Ahead of its Time
  Moira Gibb, President of ADSS and Executive Director of Social Services and Housing, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
• Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New
  Professor David Hunter, Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Durham
• New Culture, New Territory, New Professions?
  Liam Hughes, Strategic Director of Social Services, Bradford Metropolitan District Council

The ADSS/PSI group

The Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS)/PSI Group has been active for over 20 years. It is a unique independent forum outside the main political and operational structures. The ADSS/PSI Group holds an annual seminar to identify emerging policy issues and to stimulate debate among practitioners, researchers, academics and policy makers on the most topical issues in social policy. Previous publications arising from the seminars include Rationing of Health and Social Care (1993); The Future of Social Services: Accountability, Planning and the Market (1994); Targeting Those Most in Need: Winners and Losers (1995); and Best Value, Regulation and Risk (1998).

£9.95 paperback ISBN 0 85374 790 3
November 2001 80 pages 216x135mm
PSI Report No 879