CYP Now - The ADCS blog: Community networks and transitions

In my role as chair of the ADCS Associates Network, I recently chaired a discussion on the implications of the new report on working age adults published by the County Councils Network and Newton.

Edwina Grant is executive director of education and children’s services at Lancashire County Council. Picture: Lancashire County Council

Edwina Grant is chair of the ADCS Associates Network

Although the report The forgotten story of social care: The case for improving outcomes for working age and lifelong disabled adults focuses on outcomes for working age and lifelong disabled adults, it also explores the expected volume, timing, and potential cost of increasing transitions of younger adults from children’s services over the next 10 years.

I was interested to hear about the disparity in outcomes between disabled adults and their non-disabled peers, despite the cost of provision. Spend on this group of clients accounted for 63% of the net adult social care commissioned spend in England in the financial year 2022/23, a figure of £10.1 billion, and growing fast.

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