This report has been missed in the maelstrom of publications this week, but it makes the powerful case for social care as something inherently enabling, ensuring people to live the lives they want - but there is a gap to close between the reality and the vision. National Care Forum

There's been lots of debate in the last few days about how the new govt should proceed with the cap on care costs. I took a look at what happened to funding earmarked for social care reform - the next Autumn Budget is an opportunity now for govt to make vision a reality.

Where did the money go? This is the second time in the last decade that funding set aside to reform #socialcare has been diverted, this time to prop it up (the first time the money was lost completely). Excellent work Camille.

🚨Join us tomorrow for a timely discussion on how tackling the acute challenges in our public services can be balanced with the shift to longer-term prevention. We'll be joined by an expert panel of Halima Khan, Nick Pearce, IPR and Prof Catherine Needham eventbrite.co.uk/e/demos-event-……..

A Royal Commission will take years to come up with fresh proposals, likely to be re-treads of existing ideas (believe me, there are no others). In the meantime, the problems of the social care waiting list, over-stretched unpaid carers and workforce shortages won’t go away 3/

This ⬇️⬇️ - it’s really concerning to see the difference of approach to funding social care workforce and healthcare staff - Significant blow to social care sector as workforce training fund cancelled | Nuffield Trust nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/sign…

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.

Excited to be getting started on this!

A splendid cri de cœur by 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

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Prof. Martin Powell explores Chancellor Rachel Reeves decision to scrap universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, citing a £22bn shortfall. Does this shift to means-testing echo austerity and will it create a winter of discontent for pensioners? ⬇️ blog.bham.ac.uk/socialsciences…

📣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 Duncan U Fisher & 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