Care home undercover – What does the BBC expose tell us about the state of care?
The Centre for Care reflects on the recent BBC expose into abuses at a Scottish care home, looking at pressures and cultural attitudes in the adult social sector contributing to disparities in the quality of care provided and unstable conditions of employment for care home staff across the UK.
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Emily Holzhausen CBE (Carers UK) and Professor Nathan Hughes explore Carers UK’s State of Caring 2025 report, highlighting why a new settlement for carers can’t wait.
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Between crisis and reform: Centre for Care reflections on this year’s political party conferences
We reflect on attending political party conferences this summer and share our assessment of political priorities around care.
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Centre members and 2025 Summer School organisers Professor Liam Foster and Professor Majella Kilkey provide a round-up of our Summer School activities.
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PhD Student Millie Hind writes about a recent trip to Bogotá, and reflects on the relationship between feminist approaches and care.
Read more about Feminist approaches to care: A month in BogotáEuropean Carers Day 2025: Exploring policy barriers faced by migrant careworkers coming to the UK
Millie Hind speaks with Patricia Chinyoka, founder of Women of Zimbabwe about the challenges faced by migrant careworkers trying to bring with their children to the UK
Read more about European Carers Day 2025: Exploring policy barriers faced by migrant careworkers coming to the UKCentre for Care researchers have been looking at what digital skills are already present across different levels of the care workforce, and what skills might need to be developed.
Read more about Investing in digital care skills: whose skills and why?Routes out of the care crisis: exploring care system innovations in comparative perspective
Emily Burn reflects on a symposium looking at reforms of care systems at the Transforming Care conference, held in Helsinki, Finland in June 2025.
Read more about Routes out of the care crisis: exploring care system innovations in comparative perspectiveGrace Whitfield, Kate Hamblin and James Wright discuss AI in Care, exploring ethics, equity and ecology.
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In collaboration with the Social Care Institute for Excellence, our analysis of the UK Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS.
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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Written by Majella Kilkey and Jayanthi Lingham,
Read more about Closing off social care jobs to migrant workers will only harm a sector that’s already in crisisLaura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding the concerns of unpaid carers about long-term care systems relying on migrant care workers.
Read more about Mapping informal carers’ (unpaid carers’) concerns regarding long-term care systems relying on migrant care workersLaura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding work-life balance and carers’ leave.
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