WM-ADASS Associate
As Interim Branch Secretary, Alan supports the Chair, Vice-Chairs and Improvement Director with the delivery of the regional improvement programme, including overseeing and managing key risks.
Alan has over 30 years’ experience in social care, health and housing, and was Director of Adult Care and Housing Options at Birmingham City Council until December 2016. He also chaired and led the transformation of the Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board for 4 years. He has led major partnership arrangements enabling positive large-scale change and transformation. He has considerable commercial and political acumen developed though key service re-designs, and is passionate about combatting disadvantage.
Since early 2017, Alan has carried out a range of independent cross-sector (Local Government and NHS) improvement, safeguarding, care market stability, Transforming Care/Building the Right Support (learning disability and autism) and risk management work for the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) nationally and in the West Midlands, and work for individual local authorities. He was was appointed as West Midlands ADASS Branch Secretary from November 2019.
Since March 2020 and during the Covid19 pandemic, Alan has been working largely full-time, in his ADASS regional role, on a range of adult social care Covid support activities – developing, sharing and interpreting guidance and advice primarily, and led nationally for the LGA and ADASS on Covid funding-related issues, for example, leading on hospital discharge funding.
In early 2021, he joined a small national LGA Team providing bespoke adult social care financial reviews for individual councils.
Alan was one of two national ADASS Policy Leads for Safeguarding Adults for three years up until December 2021.
He is a CIPFA-qualified Accountant.