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Delighted that my interview with Will Hutton, for the Academy of Social Sciences, on children who are unpaid family carers, is available as the latest podcast in the excellent ‘The We Society’ series.

A splendid cri de cœur by Melanie Henwood (also on Bluesky melanie-henwood) highly recommend

What can we learn from the failure of successive governments to sort out #socialcare? What are the lessons from other countries? What needs to be different this time? Still as timely & topical 21 months on. But I would say that wouldn’t I? policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ending-the-soc…

"Current and incoming decision makers in the UK and globally need to act now to improve our systems of care and ensure that women are not systematically forced to choose between their economic independence and the wellbeing of their families and communities..." Helen Pankhurst

‘The government is left with no plan…. We could easily be back again on the not-so-merry-go-round that is adult #socialcare policy’. New blog on why getting to grips with means testing is the key to long-term social care reform. kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

“How can we have a fairer solution for young carers?” In the latest episode of the We Society podcast, Saul Becker (Manchester Metropolitan Uni) joins Will Hutton to discuss his 30 years of research into the hidden world of young carers. Listen now👂➡️ podfollow.com/the-we-society…

I saw this in Birmingham and it was brilliant - based on the work done by Jon Glasby @robinmiller and others around barriers to people with learning disabilities/autistic people leaving long-stay hospitals

We are recruiting! Two Facilitators, one Demonstrator, and Local Network Coordinators Check out our vacancies page buff.ly/3LVEIkP #IMPACTFacilitators #IMPACTDemonstrator

📣Just out in BMJPublicHealth: Have outsourcing enabled the survival of good care homes in England? 📈For-profit provision has increased despite performing worse than non-profit homes 🚨Third and public sector homes have closed irrespective of quality doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-…

Centre for Care colleagues @duncdos & Dan Williamson recently produced a film for the The BSA for A-level students, aiming to raise awareness of, and give context to, #socialcare and care work in relation to #sociology. Watch here on YouTube: youtu.be/MLGsuuBNmWk

At the parliamentary debate yesterday on 'Potential merits of a cross-Government strategy on #unpaidcarers', Wendy Chamberlain discussed many issues which Centre for Care team members have produced research on and continue to study, often collaborating with Carers UK (a thread) 1/8

Great new article on choice and control as disabled people negotiate gender and sexuality identity

Calling all those wanting some support to bring about evidence-informed change in adult social care (anywhere in the UK). See below for details of how to apply to host a future project with IMPACT. (Evidence = research & lived experience & practice knowledge)

⭐ The first cross-national study of adolescent young carers aged 15–17 in six European countries #AdolescentYoungCarers #MentalHealth #Europe Read this #OneToWatch article now #OpenAccess! doi.org/10.1332/239788…

Great to see this in the wild Prof Catherine Needham Prof Catherine M JasonL (can’t find Dave on Twitter, it’s not shade!)

Consider joining us in Bologna next April for the #IRSPM2025 and submit your abstact to our IRSPM panel: P28 Relational public management and place-based social complexities: irspm.org/panels-pages-2… Abstract submission deadline is 28th October.

new commentary! Erika Kispeter reviews policy developments in #socialcare, focusing on the workforce, to better understand why sector stakeholders are urging the new UK government to take urgent action and prioritise care: centreforcare.ac.uk/commentary/202…

Today we launch our latest report, "Equipping local government to deliver national and local priorities". We cover finance, performance and audit, and community power and participation to deliver effective, accountable and engaged local government. inlogov.com/wp-content/upl…

As part of our Be A Councillor work we are hoping to talk to some employers who have cllrs that work for them. It doesn’t matter which profession & the conversation will be non-attributable in our research.