Jenny Owen

About Jenny Owen

Jenny Owen is president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and executive director for adults, health and community wellbeing at Essex County Council. She is a trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and has occupied senior positions within the former Social Services Inspectorate. During 2007/08 Jenny co-chaired the National Dementia Strategy with Sube Banerjee. She has formerly worked for Hertfordshire County Council and the London Borough of Islington.

Getting personal, by Jenny Owen

4 February 2010 | Jenny Owen

There were few surprises during the passage of the Personal Care at Home Bill into the House of Lords earlier this week. Nor during its passage through its second reading. Read more...

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No longer ducking the care issue, by Jenny Owen

20 November 2009 | Jenny Owen

They say that if it walks, looks, quacks and paddles like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The same goes for politics. In a democracy, when you start talking about upwards of £20bn of public money and several million votes, politicians are probably going to start doing politics. It is, after all, what they do. Read more...

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This time it’s personal, by Jenny Owen

13 October 2009 | Jenny Owen

It was absolutely important that two of the main political parties decided to raise high the flag of social care at their party conferences this year, and begin seriously to put social care issues firmly in front of the electorate. Read more...

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Quit the quango bashing, by Jenny Owen

8 October 2009 | Jenny Owen

It’s party conference time. It’s general election time. When better to have a sensible debate about quangos without using the word ‘bonfire’? Read more...

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Green shoots for social care, by Jenny Owen

17 July 2009 | Jenny Owen

It was the worst of times but, alas, not the best of times. Launching a green paper on social care into a political and economic and fiscal tornado couldn’t have been worse timed – but how essential has it been to bring out these issues fully into the open? Publication gives clear sense, purpose and direction to the issues and will help us all give them a higher profile with the public and, not least, our workforce. Read more...

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