Left 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.
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Developing a National Care Service: Learning from Scotland’s experience
Emily Burn and Catherine Needham reflect on their previous research with the Local Government Information Unit on Scotland’s proposed National Care Service and outline four areas of key learning for the Government in Westminster.
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A research summary report of ‘The Transitions that Matter’ project, by Hayrunisa Pelge and Catherine Needham.
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As part of our ‘Transitions that Matter’ commentary series, Catherine Needham and members of the Centre for Care Voice Forum and the University of Birmingham Lived Experience Panel explore why so few people continue to transition to direct payments.
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Read about our new visual representation of a care ecosystem, drawn by artist Laura Brodrick.
Read more about A flourishing social care ecosystemReport launch event: What role for local government in Scotland’s National Care Service?
Dr Emily Burn and Professor Catherine Needham have worked with the LGIU to produce a new report entitled ‘What role for local government in Scotland’s National Care Service?’, launching on 1st December with an online event.
Read more about Report launch event: What role for local government in Scotland’s National Care Service?Podcast- Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations with Catherine Needham and Patrick Hall
A new episode of the Care Matters podcast with special guests Professor Catherine Needham and Patrick Hall from the University of Birmingham.
Read more about Podcast- Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations with Catherine Needham and Patrick HallContinuing ‘The Transitions that Matter’ series: Robert Walker writes about transitioning into older age, and the financial risks involved.
Read more about The financial risks of transitioning into older ageContinuing ‘The Transitions that Matter’ series: Terry Blatter shares her experience of caring, through three generations of family, suffering dementia.
Read more about The Three Acts of DementiaEmily Burn and Catherine Needham explore what it means to describe social care as an ecosystem.
Read more about What does it mean to describe social care as an ecosystem?How do we ‘unstick’ social care reform across the four UK countries?
We partnered with the Nuffield Trust to host a webinar on 7th June 2023, which explored shared challenges in implementing social care reform.
Read more about How do we ‘unstick’ social care reform across the four UK countries?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.
Read more about Transitioning through the care systemContinuing our ‘Transitions that Matter’ commentary series, Adrian Murray writes his experiences during the COVID-19 lockdowns and how everyday life has been impacted.
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