In this Adult Social Care feature we share our Digital Blueprint, showing how prevention, independence, and financial sustainability can be achieved through digital innovation, with real-world examples and measurable impact.

In this piece, we focus on short term support — how digital solutions can improve the quality and effectiveness of short-term support, driving better outcomes for people receiving it. 

Natasha Pow recently joined Channel 3 after an illustrious career in local government. Here she tells us her journey and what inspired her to make the move.

In this piece, we focus on short term support — how digital solutions can improve the quality and effectiveness of short-term support, driving better outcomes for people receiving it. 

In this piece, we focus on unpaid carers – exploring how digital tools can be used to help our valuable unpaid carers live a good life, despite the everyday difficulties they face.

In this piece, we focus on the front door to adult social care – exploring how digital tools are enabling people, families, carers, and professionals to access the right information and support when they need it – at their first point of contact with social services.

In this article, we explore how systems can drive the shift from a reactive to a strategic commissioning model powered by key digital interventions - enabling more proactive, outcomes-driven approaches to meeting people's needs.

This article is part of our Digital Blueprint for Adult Social Care, a series exploring how technology and cultural change can come together transform services. In this article, we explore how systems can drive the shift from a reactive to a strategic commissioning model powered by key digital interventions - enabling more proactive, outcomes-driven approaches to meeting people's needs.

How do we truly utilise the power of digital technology to transform health and social care? Channel 3’s Ralph Cook brought together adult social care and health leaders at the ADASS Spring Seminar to discuss the way ahead.

People need joined-up services, that are designed to work together, to help them face complex societal challenges. Joining up is difficult because staff can lack the data, tools, skills and capacity to deliver the quality of services that they aspire to. Nowhere is this truer than in adult social care (ASC), where pressure on staff is huge and the opportunity to alleviate some of that, using a digital approach has not yet been taken.

Channel³'s Dr Emma Garland outlines the well-known challenges faced by health and social care systems in providing the right support at the right time to unpaid carers and suggests using digital to supercharge their approach.

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Spring Seminar 2024 kicks off this week, showcasing a packed agenda filled with promise.