Hey! Great news - best wishes to all. No doubt a smiley grannies emoji needed now😉Glen

If you have not yet written a response to the LGA Green Paper please do consider doing so, well done to Sarah P and the LGA team for keeping the profile high and engaging such a wide range of contributions. Glen

Congratulations to Bridget Warr and the UKHCA team for hosting a great conference today, celebrating why home care and the people who work in it are so very special. Glen

What a great opportunity to find common voice in a first for NCAS: coming together with socialcarefutures to secure a stronger voice and better story for people who use social care. This needs to be built upon. Glen

At the Guardian Public Service Awards tonight celebrating some great people and teams in the public sector. Well done everyone - you are all winners. Glen

I am so looking forward to meeting Peter and the organising team to thank them for putting this excellent event together to profile and applaud some of the great social work talent out there. Let the party begin! Glen

Thank you to Jeremy and all colleagues in putting together and participating in today's round table. A collaborative future across housing, health and social care is the best future I can imagine, notably if it is co-produced with people with lived experience. All together! Glen

Did you see Richard Webb on BBC TV tonight on the need for long term funding for adult social care? Well done Richard and to North Yorks County Council. Glen

We had a wonderful day on Wednesday launching our new strategy to support people in Lincolnshire with a dementia- so many partners, celebrating all the good things happening in the county. Great to see so many volunteers and community groups engaged. More to do though. Glen

Tonight we celebrate the wonderful people who work in the care sector in Lincolnshire at the annual care awards. Thank you to you all for the great work you do. Glen

Thank you to all my colleagues in the royal colleges and NHS organisations for their support in highlighting to the PM the need for better investment in social care - page 2 in the Sunday Times today. Glen

There is another excellent opportunity today to progress a more responsive and positive public sector on a co-produced basis with TLAP and NHS at The National Leaders roundtable event. We need housing there too! See you soon Clenton and TLAP team. Glen

Once again TLAP produce a thoughtful and timely report #reimaginingsocialcare detailing why social care needs to embrace a stronger sense of common purpose with individuals and communities. The report also highlights some examples of where to look. Well done! Glen

Here in Lincolnshire we thought it prudent to ask a mythical friend to help predict when the now mythical Green Paper might appear. Having a few vacancies we also put them to work. Glen

There is a interesting article in The Telegraph today, unusually located in the Business section on autism - referring to 'neurodiversity in the workplace'. If you get a chance its worth a read in my opinion. Enjoy! Glen

The latest DTOC figures for February 2019, show colleagues in social care have done wonders with a reduction on social care delays of 11.7% from January. We need to see other areas of social care as investible propositions that relate to what's happening in our communities. Glen

A big thank you to the National Trading Standards Scams Team for producing a really useful training package to help raise awareness of this important topic - a course I am proud to have completed! Something for everyone colleagues. Glen

Well done to Beverley and Tricia for their creative and powerful presentation from the PSW network today - a first and hopefully not the last. Glen

Nice one Martin Routledge - an offer to ADASS to work with us and develop a new and positive public narrative for social care. Something to look forward to - and support. Glen

The power of a very human story - no fiction, just hard facts. Congratulations to Alison Holt and her colleagues at the BBC and the families whose stories they were. Also to Stephen Chandler and Councillors at Somerset for allowing the cameras in. Wow! Glen