The West Midlands ADASS Adult Social Care Analytics Capability Development Roadmap sets
out a shared strategic vision for strengthening data and analytics across adult social care.
Developed collaboratively with councils across the region, it outlines how data can be used
not only to meet national requirements but to actively improve outcomes for people and make
better use of limited resources.
At its heart, this roadmap is about moving from retrospective reporting to proactive, insight-
led decision-making, enabling social care teams to answer not just “what’s happening?”, but
“why?”, “so what?” and “what now?”.
By working through this roadmap, councils will be better equipped to:
- Meet statutory and regulatory expectations (CQC, ASCOF, CLD, Use of Resources)
- Plan and commission more effectively, using population-level insight. Smarter investments
(as analytics pinpoint what yields best value) - Empower teams at all levels to engage with data in meaningful ways
- Collaborate across boundaries, particularly with Health, and Voluntary, Community and
Social Enterprise partners. - Integrate services (as data bridges gaps between social care and health)
- Create a learning culture, where data drives reflection, evaluation and improvement -
improved lives (as we identify and scale up approaches that work best for people).