Care Workforce Change
Centre 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?
EVENT RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE! On 18th September 2025 we launched our research briefing – ‘Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works’.
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Laura 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 workers
Laura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding work-life balance and carers’ leave.
Read more about Work-Life Balance and Carer’s LeaveFrom the Vatican to Workforce Change: Reflections on Global Ageing, Dignity and the Care Economy
Professor Shereen Hussein reflects on attending the Symposium on Global Ageing, emphasising the need for equitable and sustainable care systems.
Read more about From the Vatican to Workforce Change: Reflections on Global Ageing, Dignity and the Care EconomyLeft on the Back-Burner: Adult Social Care and the 2025 Spending Review
The Centre for Care team respond to last week’s 2025 UK government Spending Review.
Read more about Left on the Back-Burner: Adult Social Care and the 2025 Spending ReviewCentre for Care researcher Becky Driscoll provides an update on our recent contributions to government inquiries and committees relevant to social care.
Read more about Contributions to committees and inquiriesPositive change for paid care workers – what, how, and when?
Duncan Fisher convened two meetings in autumn 2024 with a group of paid care workers to bring together their views on what they want to see change in their work situation.
Read more about Positive change for paid care workers – what, how, and when?Seminar: International Care Labour Markets and Ethical Recruitment, Dr Isabel Shutes
Seminar recording now available! Isabel Shutes presents ‘International Care Labour Markets and Ethical Recruitment’.
Read more about Seminar: International Care Labour Markets and Ethical Recruitment, Dr Isabel ShutesSeminar: Non-traditional forms of later-life care in India, Dr Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Event recording now available! Dr Jagriti Gangopadhyay to presents ‘Non-traditional forms of later-life care in India’. 29th October 2024.
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