Podcast- Elevating home care: a new provider challenges perceptions
Duncan Fisher and Suliyat O’Balogun explore established perceptions of home care provision, and how these perceptions inspired Suliyat to start her own home care business in 2023 with a different model.
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“Taking back control of our borders”. It’s the dependants stupid!
Majella Kilkey writes about the current discussions around restricting migrant care workers’ bringing dependants to the UK.
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Contributions to committees and inquiries (April- November 2023)
Centre for Care researcher Becky Driscoll provides an update on our recent contributions to government inquiries and committees relevant to social care.
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We are delighted to welcome to Care Matters; Nancy Folbre, Naomi Lightman and Shereen Hussein to Care Matters. In this episode, hosted by Duncan Fisher, our guests discuss the devaluation and underpayment of care work.
Read more about Podcast- Undervaluing the Work of CareCare worker organising – where is it at, and where does it go from here?
At the Centre for Care, we are about to embark on fieldwork to examine some of the ongoing and recent examples of care worker organising in England.
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Charlotte Ashworth writes about carrying out practitioner research in her own organisation.
Read more about Navigating practitioner-academic research in Local AuthoritiesDr Erika Kispeter revisits a report by the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee, entitled ‘A “gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care’, published in December 2022, to explore what could be missing.
Read more about Reflections on the visibility of the social care workforcePodcast- Reflections on ’A gloriously ordinary life’: In conversation with Baroness Andrews
This episode is a reflection, in Baroness Andrews’ own words, on the recent report published by the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee, ‘A “gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care’. The report included evidence submitted by colleagues at the Centre for Care.
Read more about Podcast- Reflections on ’A gloriously ordinary life’: In conversation with Baroness AndrewsRachael Black draws together the discussions from the Future of Care North conference centring on the care workforce, including the changing nature of the role and the potential opportunities this could bring when encouraging people to join and remain in the sector.
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