Emily Burn and Catherine Needham explore what it means to describe social care as an ecosystem.
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A new commentary in our ‘The Transitions that Matter’ series: Anne Pridmore shares her experience of transitioning through a changing care system in England, starting in the 1980s.
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The Right to Carer’s Leave Bill is a good start but we need to go further
Christie Butcher outlines the statistics relating to carers in employment and explores the policy in place to support working carers – including the new Right to Carers Leave Bill.
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Dr 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 workforceContinuing our ‘Transitions that Matter’ commentary series, Adrian Murray writes his experiences during the COVID-19 lockdowns and how everyday life has been impacted.
Read more about Transitioning into lockdown and getting stuck thereRachael 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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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) first estimates of unpaid care from Census 2021 have been released. As one of the Census topic leads, Dr Sophie John discusses the Census results and upcoming workplans on unpaid care.
Read more about Census 2021; How many unpaid carers are there in England and Wales?For the second commentary in our Transitions that Matter series, Robert Punton writes about his experience of transitioning into ‘invisibility’.
Read more about Transition into invisibilityResearcher Nadia Brookes explores what innovation in social care looks like, and how it can be one way of fixing a ‘broken system’.
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