Centre for Care
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Faculty of Social Sciences Research Inst
Abstract
The Centre for Care is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, Carers UK, the National Children's Bureau and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Working with care sector partners and leading international teams, it addresses the urgent need for new, accessible evidence on care.
Arrangements for care, and people who need or provide care, are under unprecedented pressure. Quality, cost, unmet need and the situation of carers and care workers are central concerns. Care interacts with other systems in the NHS, jobs market and in policy on migration, welfare and housing. The cultures, values and public policies that determine eligibility for support and funding rules are also crucial, and 'shocks' like Covid-19 have profound and multiple effects. Together, these factors have led to fragmented care provision and unfair outcomes, and the need for reform is now widely accepted. The Centre for Care provides new evidence and thinking for policymakers, care sector organisations and for people who need or provide care. Its objectives are to:
- work with people who need care, carers, care workers and others to produce studies that improve understanding of care and promote wellbeing;
- publish robust findings on care systems, on paid and unpaid care, and on diversity, inequalities and sustainability in care;
- exploit existing data and develop new studies, producing findings that policymakers and other researchers can use;
- work with PhD students and emerging scholars, establishing a new generation of care specialists;
- stimulate and inform public discussion of care and translate research into practice; and
- collaborate with other care research teams, within and beyond the UK.
In studying care, we focus on support, services and protections to promote the wellbeing of vulnerable or disabled people of all ages, and the networks, communities and systems that affect them. Our work will generate new knowledge on three major topics:
'Care trajectories and constraints: requiring, receiving and giving care' explores experiences of care at different life stages and as people transition between different parts of the care system. It also studies how giving or receiving care is affected when families are geographically dispersed.
'Inequalities in care: consequences, planning and place' uses latest statistical and data linkage techniques to learn how socio-economic, health and other inequalities shape experience of care, and the consequences of these for groups and individuals in different places and over time.
'Care workforce change: organisation, delivery and development' focuses on care worker recruitment and conditions; regulation and organisation of care work, including the introduction of new technologies; and efforts to improve job and service quality in care.
Cross-cutting these studies, the Centre will also examine 'Care as a complex, adaptive ecosystem', 'Digital care' and Care data infrastructure', supporting the integration of all our research. This helps us develop new thinking on care inequalities, how care ecosystems operate and change, and the drivers and implications of digitalisation and other developments. It also enables us to exploit the UK's finest statistical datasets to produce compelling new insights on care and caring.
Our multidisciplinary research team builds on a strong portfolio of care studies and is supported by researchers in nine other countries, all equally passionate about doing impactful research that can drive positive change in experience of care and caring. Our work is undertaken in partnership with care sector organisations and groups advocating on behalf of people who need care, carers and care workers.
The Centre for Care is vibrant, innovative, and determined to make a positive difference through impactful, accessible research for all to use.
Arrangements for care, and people who need or provide care, are under unprecedented pressure. Quality, cost, unmet need and the situation of carers and care workers are central concerns. Care interacts with other systems in the NHS, jobs market and in policy on migration, welfare and housing. The cultures, values and public policies that determine eligibility for support and funding rules are also crucial, and 'shocks' like Covid-19 have profound and multiple effects. Together, these factors have led to fragmented care provision and unfair outcomes, and the need for reform is now widely accepted. The Centre for Care provides new evidence and thinking for policymakers, care sector organisations and for people who need or provide care. Its objectives are to:
- work with people who need care, carers, care workers and others to produce studies that improve understanding of care and promote wellbeing;
- publish robust findings on care systems, on paid and unpaid care, and on diversity, inequalities and sustainability in care;
- exploit existing data and develop new studies, producing findings that policymakers and other researchers can use;
- work with PhD students and emerging scholars, establishing a new generation of care specialists;
- stimulate and inform public discussion of care and translate research into practice; and
- collaborate with other care research teams, within and beyond the UK.
In studying care, we focus on support, services and protections to promote the wellbeing of vulnerable or disabled people of all ages, and the networks, communities and systems that affect them. Our work will generate new knowledge on three major topics:
'Care trajectories and constraints: requiring, receiving and giving care' explores experiences of care at different life stages and as people transition between different parts of the care system. It also studies how giving or receiving care is affected when families are geographically dispersed.
'Inequalities in care: consequences, planning and place' uses latest statistical and data linkage techniques to learn how socio-economic, health and other inequalities shape experience of care, and the consequences of these for groups and individuals in different places and over time.
'Care workforce change: organisation, delivery and development' focuses on care worker recruitment and conditions; regulation and organisation of care work, including the introduction of new technologies; and efforts to improve job and service quality in care.
Cross-cutting these studies, the Centre will also examine 'Care as a complex, adaptive ecosystem', 'Digital care' and Care data infrastructure', supporting the integration of all our research. This helps us develop new thinking on care inequalities, how care ecosystems operate and change, and the drivers and implications of digitalisation and other developments. It also enables us to exploit the UK's finest statistical datasets to produce compelling new insights on care and caring.
Our multidisciplinary research team builds on a strong portfolio of care studies and is supported by researchers in nine other countries, all equally passionate about doing impactful research that can drive positive change in experience of care and caring. Our work is undertaken in partnership with care sector organisations and groups advocating on behalf of people who need care, carers and care workers.
The Centre for Care is vibrant, innovative, and determined to make a positive difference through impactful, accessible research for all to use.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- Impact (Collaboration)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) (Collaboration)
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (Collaboration)
- Think Local Act Personal (Collaboration)
- Liberal Democrat party (Collaboration)
- CARERS UK (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- National Children's Bureau (Collaboration)
- University of Lisbon (Collaboration)
- Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (Collaboration)
- Care England (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Collaboration)
- Linnaeus University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Collaboration)
- Massey University (Collaboration)
- University Of New South Wales (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association (Collaboration)
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Collaboration)
- Trades Union Congress (TUC) (Collaboration)
- Skills for Care (Collaboration)
- University of Jyvaskyla (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) (Collaboration)
- GOOD THINGS FOUNDATION (Collaboration)
- BritCits (Project Partner)
- NIDI (Project Partner)
- Living Wage Foundation (Project Partner)
- TEC Services Association (TSA) (Project Partner)
- Skills for Care (Project Partner)
- Housing LIN Ltd (Project Partner)
- European Ctr for Social Welfare Pol &Res (Project Partner)
- RMIT University (Project Partner)
- United Kingdom Homecare Association (Project Partner)
- Department of Health and Social Care (Project Partner)
- Western Norway University of Applied Sci (Project Partner)
- INCRA (Italy) (Project Partner)
- Sheffield Young Carers Project (Project Partner)
- Care Workers Charity (Project Partner)
- Trades Union Congress (Project Partner)
- National Care Forum (Project Partner)
- Equality & Human Rights Commission (Project Partner)
- Massey University (Project Partner)
- Care Quality Commission (Project Partner)
- Dept for Sci, Innovation & Tech (DSIT) (Project Partner)
- University of Western Australia (Project Partner)
- Digital Social Care (Project Partner)
- SADACCA Limited (Project Partner)
- National Inst. Health & Care Research (Project Partner)
Publications
Burns D
(2023)
Is it time for job quality? Conceptualising temporal arrangements in new models of homecare
in Sociology of Health & Illness
Glasby J
(2025)
Adult social care reform cannot afford to wait.
in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Hamblin K
(2023)
Technology and homecare in the UK: Policy, storylines and practice
in Journal of Social Policy
Hamblin K
(2022)
Digital exclusion and unpaid carers in South Yorkshire
Hewitt S
(2023)
Reflections on Peer Interviewing among Paid, Migrant, Live-in Carers in London
in The British Journal of Social Work
Hussein S
(2023)
The vulnerability of Central & Eastern European and Zimbabwean migrant home care workers' wellbeing in the UK: the intersectional effects of migration and social care systems
in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Hussein S
(2022)
The Global Demand for Migrant Care Workers: Drivers and Implications on Migrants' Wellbeing
in Sustainability
Kilkey M
(2023)
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK
in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) What Role For Local Government In Scotland's National Care Service? Local Democracy Research Centre
(2023)
What role for local government in Scotland's National Care Service?
| Title | Centre for Care Care Ecosystem model |
| Description | Graphical representation of the care ecosystem as experienced in England. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Widely used in engagement activities with people with lived experience in Birmingham, Sheffield and through our website. |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/care-ecosystem/2023/11/flourishing-social-care-ecosystem-lbrodrick/ |
| Description | The value of unpaid care to the UK economy is £184 bn per year (Petrillo et al, 2024a). There is a "caring income penalty", with differences in severity according to age, gender and ethnicity. When comparing carers and non-carers an average relative income gap of up to 45%, with an average decrease of £162 in monthly income. There are differences according to gender, age, ethnicity and caring intensity. For example, younger unpaid carers under 25 years old faced the steepest penalty, losing up to £502 each month. Women providing 50 hours or more of unpaid care per week experienced a 30% drop in their earnings compared to a 25% drop for men (Petrillo et al., 2024b) Caring for primary kin (especially spouses) is linked to lower psychological well-being compared to other caregiving relationships, regardless of care intensity (Zhang et al., 2024). A review of existing research highlighted that unpaid caring affects financial wellbeing in multiple, overlapping ways, but that these experienced unequally, with systems, circumstances and contexts serving to exacerbate or reduce these negative effects. It also highlighted evidence gaps including qualitative insights into carers' financial wellbeing and individual-level understanding of the long-term financial implications of caring (Watkins and Overton, 2024). The value of kinship care in England - where a child is looked after by either a family member who is not a parent or friend - is £4.3 billion per year (Petrillo et al., 2025). |
| Exploitation Route | The outcomes presented above are being used by Centre for Care policy and practice partners in their work to influence policy and practice changes, which are ongoing. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Other |
| Description | The Centre for Care's Phase 1 studies, spanning a three year period, are due to complete in April 2025. Our studies are producing a variety of outputs, including seven peer-reviewed journal articles; eight reports published in collaboration with sector partners; four Centre for Care working papers; three books (one co-authored and two edited volumes) and one book chapter to date (March 2025). Our work and colleagues have featured across various media outlets, including national and local radio and television (examples include: Sky and ITV News; Panorama; BBC Radio 5, Talk Radio, regional BBC radio stations; The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The i Newspaper and Daily Express), raising the public's understanding of the needs of unpaid carers and issues related to care and caring. The Centre for Care website continues to be a key mechanism for sharing our work with the public, with between 300-500 new and regular visitors each month, and page views consistently over 1,000 each month, meaning users view more than one page on average. The Commentary series has received high levels of engagement, as has the Care Matters podcast series, which has now had 4,200 downloads. At the national policy level, we have contributed to 33 national level official calls for evidence, including 16 parliamentary select committee inquiries, three calls from APPGs (All Party Parliamentary Groups), 12 governmental consultations from the UK's national and devolved governments and arms-length bodies such as NHS England and the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission). We have also contributed to calls for evidence shared by two think tanks or voluntary sector organisations (Fabian Society and TLAP). We have registered our expertise with three Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) shared by parliamentary select committees or government departments. Prof Kate Hamblin, Dr Grace Whitfield and three CfC Associates were invited to contribute evidence and to be external reviewers for a contributed to two POSTnotes (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology), providing impartial evidence for Parliamentarians on emerging topics of policy interest. Our research findings have been used by parliamentarians in debates in both the House of Commons and House of Lords on issues related to care and caring, and we have worked closely with co-Investigator Carers UK to ensure our outputs are accessible and impactful. Colleagues have been invited to participate in oral evidence sessions on issues related to care and caring: Professor Sue Yeandle and Professor Kate Hamblin gave oral evidence to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Select Committee's inquiry, 'Lifting the veil: removing the invisibility of adult social care' on support for unpaid carers and the role of digital technology in care. Professor Catherine Needham was invited to participate in the Scottish Parliament's scrutiny of the National Care Service Bill. A member of BritCits (one of our policy and practice partners) was invited to share their lived experience to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Select Committee, based on the strength of our joint written evidence submission to their inquiry on family migration. Dr Chloe Alexander was invited to present her research on young carers to the APPG on Young Carers and Young Adult Carers. Professor Sue Yeandle was invited to give evidence to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee for a non-inquiry session into Carer's Allowance. Professor Sue Yeandle was invited to give oral evidence to a House of Lords Special Committee on the Integration of Primary and Community Care, while its inquiry was in the early stages. Professor Kate Hamblin, Dr Maxine Watkins and Becky Driscoll participated in a roundtable held by Liz Sayce as part of the Independent Review of the Carer's Allowance overpayment scandal. We commissioned Nick Bibby (an expert in social sciences policy engagement and impact) to undertake a review of the quality of our written evidence submissions. He produced a report making a number of recommendations on how to tailor the format, accessibility and language of our submissions for policy audiences. Following this, Nick led an online workshop open to all Centre colleagues in January 2024, focusing on approaches and techniques to help maximise the uptake of evidence submissions by parliamentarians and parliamentary staff and, where helpful, how to repurpose them for other audiences. We have also focused our impact activities on change at local levels and across practice, working with local authorities, Integrated Care Boards and local providers of support to develop resources most attuned to their priorities and the needs of the people they support. One particular example includes the development of a 'dashboard' to enable these stakeholders to understand their local caring populations, and develop appropriate and targeted support. A further example is the work by Centre for Care colleagues in collaboration with Sheffield-based charity Stand As One (a non-profit, independent organisation working with immigrants, asylum and refugees) to facilitate the inclusion of a lived experience and practitioner perspective to the CfC response to a call for evidence on the effects of the UK migration system on poverty. Both colleagues and Stand as One participated in the report's launch event in Westminster and met with Olivia Blake MP, Chair of the APPG on Migration. Colleagues have also supported Stand As One to develop organisational capacity to successfully apply for funding for a 3-month project to support older refugees. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | APPG on Migration and the APPG on Poverty into the Effects of UK Immigration, Asylum and Refugee Policy on Poverty |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Centre for Care evidence briefing contributed to a debate on potential merits of a cross government strategy for unpaid carers in House of Commons on 3rd September |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-09-03/debates/54DB3A42-7010-4A6B-B1C7-00D090DF6D50/Unpaid... |
| Description | Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) call for evidence on the interaction between the UK immigration system and the social care sector |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to the scrutiny process to the Scottish Commission on Social Security (SCoSS) on the draft Carer's Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Cost of digitising the NHS and social care project Advisory Board. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | DHSC consultation on its proposals for a new workforce pathway in adult social care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Centre-for-Care-response-to-DHSC-care-workfor... |
| Description | Department for Education Children's social care: Stable Homes, Built on Love consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Department of Health and Social Care Older People's Housing Taskforce |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RESPONSE-Older-People-Housing-Task-Force.pdf |
| Description | Health in an ageing society. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2023-health-in-an-ag... |
| Description | House of Commons Business & Trade Select Committee: Make work pay, Employment Rights Bill inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee inquiry: 'Post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/109852/pdf/ |
| Description | House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) inquiry: 'Connected tech: smart or sinister?' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/109377/pdf/ |
| Description | House of Commons Health & Social Care Committee inquiry: 'Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmhealth/115/report.html |
| Description | House of Commons Health & Social Care Select Committee - inquiry on Adult social care reform: the costs of inaction |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee inquiry: 'Lifting the veil: removing the invisibility of adult social care'. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Prof Yeandle and Dr Hamblin's oral evidence directly fed into the development of three recommendations: Recommendation 10) The Government must commission an independent public review of the Care Act 2014 and work with local authorities to ensure that the Act is fully implemented by the end of this Parliament. The Commissioner for Care and Support should make it a priority to ensure that the review, update and implementation of the Act happens in practice. (Paragraph 229) Recommendation 25) The Government must ensure that any testing of ideas related to care technology is done in co-production with people with lived experience. (Paragraph 360) Recommendation 26) The Government should create a research and development network for the sharing of technological innovation between social care stakeholders, similar to the NHS R&D Forum. (Paragraph 361) |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HoL-Evidence-All-sections_FINAL-2.pdf |
| Description | House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee inquiry on the UK labour supply. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/111874/pdf/ |
| Description | House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry on Family Migration. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The submission, led by CfC, brought BritCits to the attention of the committee and resulted in a representative from the organisation being invited to present evidence. Members of the House of Lords committee commented that the witnesses had changed their thinking and they expressed regret at the Home Office's handling of the situations described in the evidence. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/event/15054/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/ |
| Description | House of Lords Select Committee to the integration of primary and community care. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Integration-of-primary-and-community-care-dra... |
| Description | Independent review of Carer's Allowance overpayments linked to earnings |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-carers-allowance-overpayments-terms... |
| Description | Mind the Gap: tackling digital exclusion board game |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/mind-the-gap-tackling-digital-exclusion/ |
| Description | NHS 10 year plan consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Northern Ireland Department of Health consultation on the Reform of Adult Social Care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Needham-Centre-for-Care-response-to-the-NI-co... |
| Description | POSTNote: Innovation in adult social care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0670/ |
| Description | Political influence: Valuing Carers 2021: England and Wales Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The report was quoted in the passing of the Carers Leave Bill and quoted in a BBC Politics article and the Independent. This Bill will give all employees in the UK right to 5 days unpaid care leave a year to support unpaid carers remain in work. |
| Description | Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Professor Sue Yeandle gave evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/f48512d1-a1cb-4941-ad17-b083bf7894f1 |
| Description | Public Accounts Committee inquiry, Reforming Adult Social Care in England |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care & Sport Committee scrutiny session |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The question posed by the Centre was discussed in Committee on the 12th September 2023 |
| URL | https://engage.parliament.scot/post/86642 |
| Description | Select Committee Area of Research Interest: Unpaid carers |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Senedd Cymru's Health and Social Care Committee's general scrutiny session with the Ministers responsible for health and social care. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://business.senedd.wales/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=737&MId=12965&Ver=4 |
| Description | TLAP call for evidence: social care workforce values |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) draft roadmap, 'Care data matters: a roadmap for better data for adult social care' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CfC-response-to-Care-data-matters-roadmap-con... |
| Description | The Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) Statutory Review 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-Equality-and-Human-Rights-Commission-EHRC... |
| Description | The Fabian Society's call for evidence for a 'Roadmap to a National Care Service' in England. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Centre-for-Care-submission-to-the-Fabian-Soci... |
| Description | The House of Commons' Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into prevention |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/118036/pdf/ |
| Description | The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee an inquiry into digital exclusion and the cost of living |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/119056/pdf/ |
| Description | The Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee call for views about the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://yourviews.parliament.scot/health/national-care-service-bill/consultation/view_respondent?sho... |
| Description | The Welsh Government Rebalancing care and support programme consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FINAL-RESPONSE-10-Aug-2023.pdf |
| Description | West Midlands ADASS |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | This report, included recommendations for the region which will be reviewed and implemented in practise. |
| URL | https://www.wm-adass.org.uk/media/bnqlpdm1/cqc-readiness-report-needham-burn-f1.pdf |
| Description | Border Struggles in Doing Family |
| Amount | £65,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Crook Fellowship: Digital exclusion and unpaid carers in South Yorkshire |
| Amount | £3,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Crook Public Service Fellowship and ESRC IAA |
| Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | X/014889 |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Exploring the impact of digital technologies on health and wellbeing outcomes |
| Amount | £65,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Fund |
| Amount | £44,742 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | X/180194 |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Fund |
| Amount | £28,958 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | X/182391 |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | NIHR RSS for social care research |
| Amount | £4,900,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2025 |
| End | 09/2028 |
| Description | NIHR School for Social Care Research |
| Amount | £31,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2024 |
| End | 04/2029 |
| Description | Research Stimulation Fund |
| Amount | £7,650 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 320323 |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place |
| Amount | £1,114,718 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W012383/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | The impact of the digitalisation of social care on older informal carers |
| Amount | £44,742 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Young Carers: Care experiences, service use and outcomes |
| Amount | £65,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Title | ESRC Centre for Care github |
| Description | ESRC Centre for Care github repository |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Reflects the Centre for Care's commitment to open science. |
| URL | https://github.com/centre-for-care |
| Description | Care England |
| Organisation | Care England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | PI Prof Sue Yeandle participated in the Care England forum with care sector businesses in July 2022 (Stratford-upon-Avon). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £15,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £3000 in-kind contribution per year. Care England CEO Prof Martin Green is on the CfC Advisory Board. |
| Impact | None |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Care Quality Commission (CQC) |
| Organisation | Care Quality Commission (CQC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CfC team have shared research findings and plans via advisory board meetings and engagement activities including social media and the newsletter. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £30,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £6000 in-kind contribution per year. David James, Head of Adult Social Care Policy at the Care Quality Commission, is on the CfC Advisory Board and has attended in person and online advisory board meetings. |
| Impact | None |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Carers Scotland |
| Organisation | Carers UK |
| Department | Carers Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Valuing Carers Scotland report: New research from Carers Scotland and the Centre for Care have valued the labour of carers in Scotland at £15.9 billion, based on new statistics from Scotland's 2022 census. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Carers Scotland and Centre for Care collaborated to produce a report named Valuing Carers Scotland. The report was launched on Carers Rights Day 2024, 21st November at an event held in Scottish Parliament to an audience of 50 people including policy makers, carers organisations and individuals with lived experience. Findings and recommendations were discussed. A Presentation was provided by the Centre for Care research team Matt Bennett, Maria Petrillo, and Jingwen Zhang. |
| Impact | Press release report shared on social media with a video alongside explaining the findings and recommendations |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Carers UK |
| Organisation | Carers UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Madeleine Starr MBE, Director of Business Development and Innovation at Carers UK is paid a co-investigator partner of the Centre for Care. CfC researchers have analysed Understanding Society data to provide up-to-date UK figures on the number of people starting/ending unpaid care each year. This was released in collaboration with Carers UK and generated local and national media interest. Policy professionals in Carers UK have met with CfC Impact Specialist Rachael Black and RA Becky Driscoll to explore shared priorities and link with the wider work of the CfC including meeting Co-I Dr L Overton to explore the impact of caring on pensions. March 2023-We are collaborating with Melanie Crew, Senior Policy and Research Officer at Carers UK, Good Things Foundation and The TUoS Information School to work on a Knowledge Exchange Funded project to raise awareness of the issues related to digitalisation and social care from the perspective of older carers who are digitally excluded and in so doing encourage more inclusive and evidence-based policy making. We have funded and conducted this project resulting in key recommendations (consolidating ours and our partners' findings) for supporting older carers who are digitally excluded. 2023 CfC researchers have analysed Census data to provide up-to-date UK figures on the value of unpaid care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This was released in collaboration with Carers UK and generated local and national media interest and was quoted in parliament in the passing of the Carers Leave Act. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-I Madeleine Starr MBE, sits the CfC Impact Leadership group and Voice Forum working group. She has delivered training about impact to the CfC team in October 2022. Carers UK have supported us to develop impact planning tools and start developing a Theory of Change. Madeleine attended the CfC Annual Meeting in November 2022. 2022/2023 Madeleine continues to sit on the ILG and has commented on researcher's Impact Plans. She has also contributed to plans to create an Impact Budget that researchers can bid for. Madeleine sits on our Voice Forum Working Group and has contributed to plans to refresh and expand the membership of the Voice Forum. On 7th-8th Nov 2023 she attended the Centre for Care Annual General Meeting in Sheffield and participated in a live podcast recording as part of the Festival of Social Sciences. The podcast explored the digitalisation of Social Care. Policy professionals from Carers UK have contributed to General Election planning meetings with CfC so that we can understand each other's election priorities and how to share messaging. Melanie has supported with the KE Funded project, she has facilitated and attended focus groups and supported us to make dissemination plans. |
| Impact | Report: 'Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care', based on CfC research (RA Dr M Petrillo, Co-Is Profs M Bennett & G Pryce, was released by Carers UK on Carers Rights Day (24 Nov 2022) providing up-to-date UK figures on the number of people starting/ending unpaid care each year. Co-I Madeleine Starr delivered training to CfC team about how Carers UK have impact from their work. Impact planning template Training material about impact with policy makers Report 'Valuing Carers 2021 England and Wales' (RA Dr M Petrillo, Co-Is Profs M Bennett, was released by Carers UK May 2023) Report 'Valuing Carers NI' (RA Dr J Zhang, RA Dr M Petrillo & Co-Is Prof M Bennett was released by Carers UK on Carers Rights Day 23 Nov 2023) Podcast: AI, Sensors and Robots: What is Next for Social Care in the UK? (recorded 7th Nov 2023) |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Co-I Prof M Bennett is working with BEIS to explore the need/potential for a new Survey of Carers, and potential for data linkage on experiences of carers across the life course. July 2022- The CfC submitted evidence to the BEIS Committee inquiry: 'Post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets'. Drawing on our research and the lived experience of care workers and care providers to highlight the shortages of workers in social care; the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the sector; workers' rights and protections; and the impact of the ageing population |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £30,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £6000 in-kind contribution per year. BEIS prepare/attend meetings, participate in discussions. Ongoing exploration of ways BEIS can incorporate CfC research into its outputs. |
| Impact | Meeting preparation/attendance, ongoing discussions |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Department of Health and Social Care |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department of Health and Social Care |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Active support and negotiations with CfC and other government Depts, incl. use of CfC research evidence to develop planned new Survey of Carers July 2023 Researchers from the Care Workforce Group met Grace Blenheim and colleagues from the DHSC to discuss the proposed Care Workforce Pathway following an evidence submission from the CFC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £30,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £6000 in-kind contribution per year. Prepared and participated in meetings, ongoing discussions. DHSC led an Expert Led session facilitated by Co-I Dr Hamblin in June 2022 |
| Impact | CfC Submission to Inquiries: May 2023 Care workforce pathway for adult social care: call for evidence Sept 2023 Older People's Housing Taskforce - call for evidence |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Department of Work and Pensions |
| Organisation | Department for Work and Pensions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | DWP colleagues contributed to discussions about potential plans and value of a new Survey of Carers, specifying how this would support DWP's work. Co-I Dr L Overton and RA Dr M Watkins are liaising with DWP's 50 plus choices team to discuss how the earliest choices about care can influence outcomes. May 2023 RA Dr M Watkins MW attended the Care Choices workshop hosted by DWP, this was attended by other stakeholders working in social care, including representatives from different government departments. Nov 23 PI Prof S Yeandle and RA B Driscoll participated in a DWP Link Seminar exploring the history of the Carers Allowance, issues with it's design and how financial support for carers can be reformed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £30,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £6000 in-kind contribution per year. Preparation for and participation in meetings and discussions |
| Impact | DWP Link Seminar: Carers Allowance |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Good Things Foundation |
| Organisation | Good Things Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have collaborated with Good Things Foundation, Carers UK and The TUoS Information School to work on a Knowledge Exchange Funded project to raise awareness of the issues related to digitalisation and social care from the perspective of older carers who are digitally excluded and in so doing encourage more inclusive and evidence-based policy making. We have funded and conducted the project resulting in key recommendations (consolidating ours and our partners' findings) for supporting older carers who are digitally excluded. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Good Things Foundation have supported with facilitating focus groups, disseminating findings and participating in a live podcast recording. |
| Impact | Live podcast recording (to be launch March 2024) |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Health and Ageing Research Team (HART) at Massey University |
| Organisation | Massey University |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | PI Prof Sue Yeandle and Co-I Prof Matt Bennett engaged with Massey University's major research proposal on 'Pathways to Sustainable Ageing' as potential International Advisors. This is being prepared for NZ's Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. Prof Bennett is invited to give a seminar at Massey in 2024. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £30,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £6000 in-kind contribution per year. Spring 2023 Co-I Prof M Bennett met with Fiona Alpass and colleagues Massey to discuss potential topics related to ageing, sleep and predictive analytics projects. June 2023 Massey colleagues presented a Symposium, Negotiating care in the context of multiple commitments: Combining paid work and informal care across the lifespan, as part of the Transforming Care Conference hosted by the University of Sheffield. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network) |
| Organisation | Housing Learning and Improvement Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Sept 2022: Co-I Dr K Hamblin gave presentation at Housing LIN HAPPI Hour event https://www.housinglin.org.uk/Events/HAPPI-Hour-Di gital-Telecare-How-ready-are-we-for-the-digital-sw tch/ Positive feedback: 'Extremely interesting and much needed with great speakers - thank you! Very informative, honest and helpful.' |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £15,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £3000 in-kind contribution per year. Shared resources and information about CfC events and seminars |
| Impact | Presentation: How Ready are we for the Digital Switch? |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | IMPACT |
| Organisation | Impact |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We funded and supported the delivery of the English Policy Roundtable event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have collaborated with IMAPCT on a number of outputs including the commentary series Transitions that Matter and a podcast exploring values based recruitment. We have worked with IMPACT to deliver a policy roundtable event held in Birmingham in January 2024. |
| Impact | Podcasts Commentaries Events |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | INRCA IRCCS's Centre for Socio- Economic Research on Ageing |
| Organisation | Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Invitation to attend events to present work, share learning and build networks. CfC hosted an International Partners Event in June 2022. IRCCS's Centre for Socio- Economic Research on Ageing attended and presented at this event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £170000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £34000 in-kind contribution per year this includes linking PhD students with the CfC. Attended and presented at the CfC International Partners Event in June 2022. Further collaborations being explored June 2023 Federico Sofritti presented Implementing coordinated multi-level strategies to contrast inequalities among informal carers in Italy at the Transforming Care Conference hosted at the University of Sheffield |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Informal Carers, Care and Caring Research Group at the Linnaeus University (LNU) and the Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (SFCCC) |
| Organisation | Linnaeus University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Invitation to attend events to present work, share learning and build networks. CfC hosted an International Partners Event in June 2022. The Informal Carers, Care and Caring Research Group attended and presented at this event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind value contribution of £30,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average value of £6000 in-kind contribution per year. Attended and presented at the CfC International Partners Event in June 2022. Further collaborations being explored June 2023 Linnaeus colleagues presented during 'Symposium2-Breaking boundaries: bringing together academia, policy and practice to make change in time of crisis' at the Transforming Care Conference hosted by the University of Sheffield. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Liberal Democrats political party |
| Organisation | Liberal Democrat party |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research has been used by the Liberal democrat political party to strengthen their argument when promoting the needs of unpaid carers. The Centre for Care provided Wendy Chamberlain, MP with an evidence briefing which included research findings. These findings were cited in a parliamentary debate on the 3rd of Sept 2024. Following this the Centre for Care contacted Wendy Chamberlain to further discuss the Centres research and policy influencing plans. As a result a policy breakfast event will be co hosted with Wendy Chamberlain and the Centre for Care in Westminster to discuss the case the paid Carers Leave. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Liberal democrat party members and the party has cited Centre for Care research in numerous publications and in parliament. |
| Impact | Policy breakfast event: 19th March 2025 Hosted in Westminster with Wendy Chamberlain, MP (The case the paid carers leave) Policy breakfast event: 14th May 2025 Hosted in Westminster with Steve Darling, MP (care allowance reform) |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), University of Lisbon |
| Organisation | University of Lisbon |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ricardo Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics & Management of Universidade de Lisboa (ISEG-ULisboa) in May 2023 Prof Rodrigues visited the Centre for Care and delivered a research workshop: 'Inequalities in caregiving, unmet need and use of care' June 2023 Prof Rodrigues attended the Transforming Care Conference hosted by the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ongoing work with the Care Inequalities Research group on a project exploring Gender inequalities and cohort trajectories. Data access applications submitted September 2023 |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | National Children's Bureau |
| Organisation | National Children's Bureau |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Keith Clements, Senior Researcher at NCB is a paid co-investigator partner of the CfC. CfC are working with NCB to develop research around children and young people. We will work collaboratively to bring together NCB and University of Sheffield colleagues to develop research plans and questions. We have amplified NCB research through our submissions to government inquiries, our social media channels and our work on the General Election. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-I Keith Clements participates in the CfC Impact Leadership Group (ILG) and Voice Forum working group. NCB colleagues have supported CfC to develop impact planning tools and plan for a centre wide Theory of Change. Keith contributed a Commentary to our website and with NCB colleagues, co-delivered a workshop about research with children and young people. Keith attended the CfC Annual Meeting in November 2022. 2023/23 Keith continues to sit on the ILG and has commented on researcher's Impact Plans. He has also contributed to plans to create an Impact Budget that researchers can bid for. Keith is working on the development of the Children and Families research theme with Centre researcher Becky Driscoll and Deputy Director Nathan Hughes. In addition Keith facilitated a meeting about a submission to the DfE Consultation into Children's Social Care: Stable Homes, Built on Love consultation and fed into our General Election Planning. He sits on our Voice Forum Working Group and has contributed to plans to refresh and expand the membership of the Voice Forum . 7th Nov 2023 Keith attended the Centre for Care Annual General Meeting in Sheffield. |
| Impact | Commentary piece Impact planning template Collaborated with NCB to respond to the Department of Education's call for evidence on their consultation into Children's Social Care: Stable Homes, Built on Love consultation Impact Budget Plans |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Norwegian Centre for Care Research, West, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
| Organisation | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Hosted an international partners event in Summer 2022 which the Norwegian Centre for Care Research attended. This event has led to further collaborations and information sharing |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind contribution value of £75000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This includes linking PhD students to the CfC Attended and presented at the CfC international partners event in June 2022. This event has led to further collaborations and information sharing Autumn 2022 Online meeting with Research Group A: Care trajectories and constraints June 2023 Western Norway University of Applied Sciences presented at the Centre for Care panel - Whole system reform in social care at the Transforming Care Conference hosted by the University of Sheffield |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | ONS |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The ONS is a CfC Co-Investigator. Dr S John, Head of Social Care Analysis, with other ONS colleagues has explored ways of working with CfC team members, kept us briefed on data releases, incl. plans for release of Census 2021 data and discussed CfC research plans. She is external adviser on three CfC PhD students based at Univs of Sheffield & Birmingham. Dr S John/ONS have participated in multiple CfC training sessions, events and meetings in 2022-23. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind contribution value of £60,000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average of £12000 in-kind contribution per year. ONS participate in CfC Impact Leadership group and have delivered training about Impact to CfC researchers. They have worked with the Care Data research group on their research plans and outputs. Dr John contributed a commentary in February 2023 to the CfC website exploring census data and numbers of unpaid carers. 2023-Dr John has moved to a new role so we are waiting for her replacement to start and continue the work with the Centre for Care. |
| Impact | Training materials on engaging with policy makers delivered January 2023 Commentary piece on census data and unpaid carers |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Sheffield City Council |
| Organisation | Sheffield City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CfC staff have met with Sheffield City Council (SCC) in centre-wide activities (introductory meetings) and productive contacts with specific CfC Research Groups / Themes (Care Inequalities, Care Data Infrastructure, Care Ecosystems, Digital Care). May 2022: meetings with K Damiral, SCC Practice Devt Coordinator, Engagement & Involvement; C Watson, SCC Partnerships & Regional Engagement, leading to contact with A Chappell (Director, SCC Adult Health & Social Care) and J Cameron (Social Care Lead, ICB), and productive meetings (Jul 22): CfC team & Campbell (Leadership Support Manager, NHS) on unpaid carers data, followed by monthly meetings (CfC, NHS, SCC, ICS) to explore ongoing collaboration, incl. with Commissioner for Unpaid Carers L Teasdale-Smith. Jan 2023: CfC Co-Is briefed P Higgingbottom (SCC Strategic Commissioning Manager) on CfC Care Ecosystems and Digital Care work, further meetings planned. Feb 2023: CfC Impact Specialist Dr R Black met K Damiral re SCC's Citizen Involvement Project to explore possible shared event on challenges/opportunities in co-production. March 2023: SCC colleagues attended CfC Launch. Dr K Hamblin has continued to work with P Higgingbottom on the SCC Tests of Change programme. September 2023 Dr R Black co-delivered 2 workshops for SCC commissioners about working with Universities. The workshops were led by Jennifer Llewellyn - Research and Knowledge Transfer Practitioner SCHARR. These sessions led to making contacts with commissioners in children's social care. Oct 2023 PI Prof S Yeandle presented at the Carers Roadshow, a collaboration between Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Carers Centre December 2023 Co-I Prof M Kilkey, RA Dr J Lingham and Dr R Black met Kate Damiral and colleagues from commissioning to discuss barriers to engaging with seldom heard communities and learning from CfC research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SCC staff have contributed time and expertise. August 2024 Sheffield City Council Director of Adult Social Care, Alexis Chappell led a partnership meeting bringing together commissioners, service providers, third sector organisations and research. Centre for Care Impact Specialist Fay Benskin proposed meetings were held on a monthly basis and hosted by the Centre for Care. Centre for Care team have facilitated 4 partnership meetings and explored topics including Unpaid carers in Sheffield, Prevention, Care workforce and Climate friendly care. Centre for Care researchers have presented their work to the group and opportunities for collaboration and bringing together research and practice. Further meetings are scheduled to turn ideas into practice using theory of change methods and action learning sets. As a result of the Partnership board meetings further collaborations and links have been formed. Sheffield City Council Commissioner Andrew Wallace Parkin attended the Care workforce meeting. He sought a further meeting with Centre for Care Impact Specialist and RA Becky Driscoll to discuss research evidence in support of the LGBTQ+ older peoples housing offer. Andrew was connected with Centre researchers and wider contacts to further inform him project. He is now working closely with Dr PJ Annand from the Centre for Care on a partnership project to offer LGBTQ+ housing for older adults in Sheffield. September 2023 Sheffield City Council invited Dr K Hamblin to present at Sheffield's TEC Transformation and Tests of Change Conference. Following this Impact Specialist, Dr R Black, met the Head of Adult Social care Alexis Chappell and Chief Social Worker Dawn Bassinder. A wider meeting between Dawn, Alexis and CfC researchers took place on Tuesday 30th January 2024. Alexis introduced CfC colleagues to others in SCC including the Carers Leads in commissioning. |
| Impact | None yet, discussions ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Sheffield and District African Caribbean Community Association (SADACCA) |
| Organisation | Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CfC have worked with SADACCA in May 2022 to develop our submission to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Inquiry: Lifting the Veil. CfC Impact Specialist, Rachael Black, developed a summary of the submission to be shared on the SADACCA website. The Care Trajectories and Constraints Research Group continue to work with SADACCA in fieldwork and Knowledge Exchange Activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind contribution value of £20000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average of £4000 in-kind contribution per year. SADACCA staff and members worked with CfC team members in May 2022 to develop our submission to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Inquiry: Lifting the Veil. SADACCA is also actively involved in co-producing our research, with a coproduction meeting facilitated in January 2023. Time and expertise is contributed, with small sums paid to participants in line with best practice guidance on co-production. |
| Impact | Submission to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Inquiry May 2022 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Skills for Care |
| Organisation | Skills for Care |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Centre for Care researcher, Shereen Hussein, has previously worked with Skills for Care and shared research findings and learning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind contribution value of £24000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average of £4800 in-kind contribution per year. Skills for Care met with Centre for Care researchers in May 2022 to discuss adult social care workforce datasets and the potential for data linkages. Skills for Care attended an in person meeting with the care workforce research group in Sheffield in January 2023 discussing Skills for Care data, the proposed care workforce group research questions and a timeline of activities. Follow up meeting to be arranged for April October 2022 Centre for Care researchers attended the Skills for Care Launch event of their report 'The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England' |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Social Care Institute for Excellence |
| Organisation | Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | SCIE are a paid co-investigator partner of the CfC. CfC have amplified SCIE research through our submissions to government inquiries, our social media and our work on the General Election. 24th October 2024: SCIE facilitated roundtable events in 4 locations to explore 'care equity'. SCIE requested support from Centre for Care to invite local professionals and those with lived experience to contribute to the discussion. Centre for Care Impact Specialist shared the invitation with researchers and people working in the sector including homelessness, substance misuse, council commissioners, learning disabilities, voluntary sector, care providers. 35 people attended and contributed to the roundtable discussion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Rebekah Luff, Senior Research Analyst with SCIE and Fay Benskin Centre for Care Impact Specialist had a joint application accepted for the post of Policy and Practice Partnerships and Knowledge Exchange co Lead within the Centre for Care. The role is focussed on Promoting dialogue and knowledge exchange on challenges in care in a programme of online/media and KE activities, translating research into practice and working with care sector partners to inform the public about care. SCIE sit on the CfC Impact Leadership Group and Voice Forum working group. They have supported us to develop impact planning tools and start to develop Theory of Change. Rebekah Luff, Senior Research Analyst, has contributed a Commentary to our website and delivered training to CfC researchers, professional service staff and associates in January 2023 about engaging with policy makers. SCIE attended a partners meeting with the care workforce research group in March 2022 to discuss care worker recruitment, job satisfaction and data analysis. Rebekah attended the CfC Annual Meeting in November 2022. 2022/2023 Rebekah continues to sit on the ILG and has commented on researcher's Impact Plans. She has also contributed to plans to create an Impact Budget that researchers can bid for. Rebekah facilitated a meeting with SCIE colleagues about a submission to the Older People's Housing Taskforce and fed into our General Election planning. Rebekah sits on our Voice Forum Working Group and has contributed to plans to refresh and expand the membership of the Voice Forum. She attended the Voice Forum in Feb 2024 to share findings from a co-production project SCIE delivered and facilitate a conversation with the Voice Forum to explore the next steps of the group. 7th Nov 2023 she attended the Centre for Care Annual General Meeting in Sheffield. |
| Impact | Training material Commentary piece Meeting minutes Consulted on a submission to the Older People's Housing Taskforce (Department of Health and Social Care). |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| Organisation | University of New South Wales |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Introductory meetings between CfC and SPRC researchers |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind contribution value of £25000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average of £5000 in-kind contribution per year. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | TLAP |
| Organisation | Think Local Act Personal |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Digital Care team in the Centre for Care started co-producing this project in April 2023 with a group of people from Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP) with lived experience of care and support including people using paid or unpaid care, and families members of people using care. Centre for Care researchers were motivated by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and TLAP principles of co-production, which highlight values of equality, diversity, accessibility, and reciprocity - while they aim these principles towards improving service provision, they are also relevant to research. Additionally, reflections from the group emphasise that research is overly driven by government or by industry rather than people with understanding of care needs driving the research, and co-production is a way of countering that. What has been achieved: |
| Collaborator Contribution | We co designed the research together with an aim to explore 'technologies that matter', or what people use to live full lives. Fieldwork began in May 2024 (with 26 participants interviewed so far) and we are now starting on the collaborative analysis to coproduce outputs. Members of the group have also presented early findings, for example at internal conferences and a conference for care commissioners. |
| Impact | Co delivered a workshop to 65 attendees at the Adult Social Care Commissioners conference in Dec 2024. Showcasing the Digital exclusion board game alongside a panel of individuals with lived experience from TLAP. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | TUC |
| Organisation | Trades Union Congress (TUC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Co-I Tom Hunt and RA Duncan Fisher met with Abigail Hunt and Conor McGurran from the TUC to discuss research plans and questions regarding worker organising amongst care workers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The estimated in-kind contribution value of £20000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average of £5000 in-kind contribution per year Kudsia Batool, Head of Equalities and Strategy, is on the CfC Advisory Board and has attended online and face to face meeting. 2023 Kudsia Batoo continues to sit of the CfC advisory board |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | University of JYVÄSKYLÄ Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoEAgeCare) |
| Organisation | University of Jyvaskyla |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CfC hosted an international partners event enabling CoE Age Care to share their work and build new collaborations |
| Collaborator Contribution | 170000 The estimated in-kind value of £170000 is across the life of this award (2021-2026). This is an average of £34000 in-kind contribution per year and includes linking PhD students with the CfC. CoE Age Care colleagues participated in/presented at the inaugural CfC European partners' event (June 2022). CoE PI Prof Teppo Kröger also recorded a Care Matters CfC podcast based on his recent book. CoE colleagues shared information about their work and outputs. June 2023 CoE Age Care colleagues presented the paper 'What makes integrated care system for older people get closer to the community?' at the Transforming Care Conference hosted at the University of Sheffield. |
| Impact | Care Matters Podcast episode October 2022 https://sustainablecare.podbean.com/e/care-poverty-when-older-people-s-needs-remain-unmet/ |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Article in The Conversation: Why are so many of England's care workers migrants? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | September 12th 2024 Article by Professor Majella Kilkey published in The Conversation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/why-are-so-many-of-englands-care-workers-migrants-238160 |
| Description | Care Choices workshop hosted by DWP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | May 2023 RA Dr M Watkins attended the Care Choices workshop hosted by DWP. This was attended by other stakeholders working in social care, including representatives from different government departments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Care Matters Podcast Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The CfC transitioned the 13 'Care Matters' podcasts (first developed near the end of the ESRC Large Grant award 'Sustainable Care') into a centrepiece of the CfC's output targeted at non-academic audiences. Each podcast is on average 38 mins long and explores care/caring issues. Topics have included: experiences of unpaid carers; care poverty; the European Care Strategy 2022; digital care. 14 podcast episodes were released between Nov 2021 (start of CfC) and Jan 2023. CfC podcasts average 86 downloads. Since the start of the Care Matters series in July 2020 there have been 4,337 podcast downloads. Podcasts include invited participants (academics, third sector organisations, people with lived experience, policy makers) and one or more CfC team members, typically in host or discussant roles. The podcasts aim to make a positive difference to how care is understood, experienced and provided, and are produced by Digital & Communications Coordinator Dan Williamson. So far, episodes have been downloaded in the UK, USA, Ireland, Australia, Germany. On release they are shared via the CfC website, social media (Twitter, LinkedIn), CfC newsletter and by CfC partner organisations. Since Feb 2023 there have been 8 episodes of the podcast including a live recording as part of the Festival of Social Sciences. The topics have covered the care workforce, social care reform, Values-based recruitment in Adult Social Care, reflections on the House of Lords Adult Social Care Inquiry, AI, Sensors & Robots: what is next for Social Care in the UK? and social care across the 4 nations. Each podcast is on average 40 mins long. The podcasts since Jan 23 have averaged 92 downloads. In addition the Centre for Care has been contacted by two organisations who have heard the podcast and want to be guests on future episodes. These are two national charities: We Are Campaign and Dementia Carers Count. They contacted the Centre via the Centre for Care website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://sustainablecare.podbean.com/ |
| Description | Centre for Care Commentary Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The CfC began publishing pieces in its Commentary Series in Sep 2022. Commentary pieces are written by CfC researchers, people with lived experience, and CfC practice and policy partners. Covering any issue within the CfC remit, so far commentaries have discussed: 'carer identification'; care workers' pay; care worker demographics; the impact of caring on pensions; and transitions in care. By Jan 2023 the CfC had released 13 commentaries averaging 87 page views (in total, 960 views). Outcomes include responses by policymakers, practitioners and journalists on social media (e.g. journalist Elizabeth Mistry responded to CfC's Commentary on the impact of reducing work to care tweeting that: 'Those who reduce their hours - or give up paid work altogether in order to be a full time #UnpaidCarer are not only putting their career and health at risk but jeopardising their future financial situation. #UnpaidCarers subsidise the NHS and suffer as a result #ValueCarers". CfC Commentaries are shared on the CfC website, social media and the CfC newsletter. Since February 2023 CfC has released 18 commentaries averaging 69 page views (in total, 1,235 views). Outcomes include responses by policymakers, practitioners, academics and journalists on social media e.g. Professor of Practice at University of Birmingham Adele Atkinson posting a reply to a commentary on the financial risks of transitioning into older age on LinkedIn: 'Thanks for sharing this article. It highlights many issues and clearly shows how hard it is to have financial resilience when you're claiming support- a contradictory situation that needs addressing. Leonore Riitsalu, Rauno Pello, I think you will find this interesting.' Statistics on mentions and replies on X throughout 2023 cannot be gathered due to changes in the Twitter/X platform; in Jan-Feb 2024 we received 9 mentions. CfC Commentaries are shared on the CfC website, social media and the CfC newsletter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/commentary/ |
| Description | Centre for Care Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the CfC newsletter is to share details of our work in an accessible way and drive audiences to the website where they can find further information on CfC research, opportunities for engagement, recruitment opportunities and publications. Between May 2022 and February 2023 there have been 5 editions of the newsletter issued. There are over 700 subscribers as of March 2025 to the newsletter. Engagement with the newsletter is monitored by 'clicks' (every time a link is opened from the newsletter). January 2022: 1,143 'clicks; May 2022: 109; October 2022: 330; December 2022: 365; February 2023: Data not yet collected. (January 2022 was particularly high as 12 RA posts with the Centre were advertised which generated considerable engagement). Between February 2023 and January 2024 there have been 3 editions of the newsletter. There are 691 subscribers to the newsletter. Engagement with the newsletter is monitored by 'clicks' (every time a link is opened from the newsletter) July 2023: 348 clicks; October 2023: 231 clicks; December 2023: 251 clicks. Feb 2023: 234 clicks Between March 2024 and March 2025 there have been 3 publications of the Centre for Care newsletter. April 2024: 234 clicks, Dec 2024: 865 clicks, Feb 2025 (Summer School special): 558 clicks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| Description | Centre for Care Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Feb 2025: Seminar: "Safety is Number One, Healthcare is Number Two": Care and Emigration Aspirations in the U.S. Dec 2024: Seminar: International Care Labour Markets and Ethical Recruitment, Dr Isabel Shutes Oct 2024: Seminar: Non-traditional forms of later-life care in India, Dr Jagriti Gangopadhyay July 2024: Seminar: Understanding suicide and homicide risk in unpaid carers, Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer May 2024: Seminar: Community care workers' access to hygiene facilities: the right to working conditions which "respect health, safety and dignity" May 2024: Seminar: Health inequalities across older adults cared for by daughters and sons in modernising China March 2024: Seminar: Long-Term Care: from the individual experiences to the global context |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/seminar-series/ |
| Description | Centre for Care website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Website update 2024 to 2025 Pages views: 14,931 Our most popular pages after the top landing page (Centre for Care home page) are commentaries and updates, showing that posting regular new content, like commentaries and news items, and promoting this to our audiences is driving traffic to the website. Users: 4,159 More than half of all users find our website through Search Engines, which shows that Search Engine Optimisation methods employed are working, putting us first, or very high up in search engine results. Engagement rate: 58% (generally considered to be a good engagement rate across similar industry websites) Links to our pages are widely shared on social media, and included in every press release to regional, national and international media outlets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Engagement with Carers Rights Day Report Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | CfC staff worked with Carers UK to plan and deliver the report. Press releases were produced by The University of Sheffield and Carers UK, resulting in coverage in the Mirror, BBC South Yorkshire and The Sheffield Star. The report was cited in an Early Day Motion (Liberal Democrat) and featured in UKRI's newsletter 'Headlines and Highlights' and tweeted by Gareth Thomas MP. Co-I Prof Matt Bennett was interviewed about the research on Radio Sheffield's Breakfast show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CUK-Carers-Rights-Day-Research-Report-2022-We... |
| Description | Engagement with Carers Rights Day Report Valuing Carers 2021 NI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CfC staff worked with Carers UK to plan and deliver the report. Press releases were produced by Carers UK, resulting in coverage in the Belfast Live, Ireland Live, UTV News, The Belfast Telegraph |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/publications/valuing-carers-northern-ireland/ |
| Description | Festival of Social Sciences event: Launch of Mind the Gap: Tackling digital exclusion board game |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Centre for Care was awarded funding from the University of Sheffield to develop and showcase a board game at the Festival of Social Science research arcade. Research from the Centre for Care was presented in a board game format to explore the challenges of being digitally excluded. This was presented to over 1000 visitors in a public space over 4 days where people could play the game, engage in discussions around the topic and understand the recommendations from the research. The board is life sized and on the final day of the festival it was played to an audience of 45 people including a panel of people with lived experience and professionals working in the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/mind-the-gap-tackling-digital-exclusion/ |
| Description | IMPACT and CfC: Policy Roundtable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | January 2024-Policy roundtable event with IMPACT exploring issues of choice and control. The session was chaired by David Brindle and attended by people with lived experience, academics, service providers and funders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ITV Tonight Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Feb 2024 Prof S Yeandle and Prof M Bennett participate in a documentary, ITV Tonight. The description of the programme uses CfC statistics 'Unpaid carers in England and Wales are providing a service worth an estimated £162billion a year, the equivalent of a second NHS. But, what is the cost to those who take on the responsibility of caring for others? Lindsey Burrow, who is an unpaid carer for her former rugby league player husband Rob, has been finding out' The Centre for Care was approached to participate in this documentary via an inquiry made to our website Centreforcare.ac.uk The documentary generated a lot of interest on social media, including on X and Instagram with viewers highlighting what an important topic it is and requesting longer episodes of the show@ "What an excellent programme tonight ?? as the carer of my 25 yr old son (Angelman Syndrome) I felt the pain, concerns & yrs of sheer exhaustion of the carers interviewed." "Get these @ITVTonightepisodes on an hour so much more can be fitted in more interviews and investigation each week . Tonight regular rates inside top ten most live viewed shows of the day so why no try hour long format. Next show can easily go out at 9.30 itv1" "A very powerful program Thank you Lindsey for taking the time to speak us for every #unpaidcarer" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-01/lindsey-burrow-who-cares-for-our-carers |
| Description | Launch event Local Government Information Unit Report: What role for local government in Scotland's National Care Service? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dec 2023 Ask the expert session: Co-I Prof C Needham shared her report 'What role for local government in Scotland's National Care Service?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Media engagement with Valuing Carers 2021: England and Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CfC staff worked with Carers UK to plan and deliver the report. Press releases were produced by The University of Sheffield and Carers UK, resulting in coverage in the Mirror, Daily Express, Channel 5 News, BBC One Yorkshire, LBC News, Evening Standard and The Sheffield Star. Rachael Black, Impact Specialist, was interviewed for the Radio Sheffield Drive Time show and the report was featured in the UKRI 'Headlines and Highlights' newsletter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://centreforcare.ac.uk/publications/valuing-carers-2021/ |
| Description | Nuffield and CfC Seminar: How do we unstick social care reforms across the 4 UK countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | June 2023 Co delivered session with the Nuffield Trust |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/event/how-do-we-unstick-social-care-reform-across-the-four-uk-count... |
| Description | Roundtable events sharing research on the long-term impacts of involvement in the child protection system on children's educational and criminal justice outcomes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The research, which has been conducted by Dr Anna Leyland, is the first to look at the long-term impacts on criminal justice system involvement when a child becomes part of the child protection system or is taken into care. This study offers new insights into how impacts differ across England and the varying patterns for boys and girls. The findings bring into focus the challenges for the youth justice system as it seeks to protect children in child protection systems - and particularly those in care - from unnecessary criminalisation. The roundtable events on 6th and 7th of November brought together professionals working in the sector including social workers, probation and police to discuss the implications of this research and their contributions were captured to influence next steps and onward activity to influence policy and practice change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Social Media Activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The CfC established active social media channels on Twitter and LinkedIn in 2022. CfC publications and podcasts are shared via social media, as are team members' comments on articles of interest, other CfC publications and details of CfC events and seminars. By Jan 2023 CfC had 991 Twitter followers and 74 LinkedIn followers. On Twitter, CfC's work is followed by academics, international partners, journalists, government and House of Lords departments and committees, policymakers and practitioners and people with lived experience of care. CfC's report launched on Carers Rights Day 2022 received 188 likes and 102 retweets on Twitter. CfC's Commentary by Katy Evans (person with lived experience) on recruiting/employing a new Personal Assistant received 62 likes and various comments, including: "This blog needs to be read by everyone delivering and receiving care. The work, the power imbalance, the relentlessness, the emotional and physical toll. @KatyRoseEvans is open and honest and this experience will resonate with so many people receiving support and care." Feb 2024- We now have 1459 on X/Twitter and have shared a total of 881 posts. We now have 174 Followers on LinkedIn. Jan 2024 Ex-Guardian journalist and Chair of Ambient Support, David Brindle, retweeted an article by Prof M Bennett with the comment "Hard truth - 'Although the Care Act is now on the statute book, its influence on what is happening has in practice been minimal' #socialcare". This was viewed 1,621 times. Nov 2023 videos posted on LinkedIn and Twitter/X relating to research by Matt Bennett, Jingwen Zhang and Maria Petrillo released for Carers Rights Day 2023 were viewed 2,500 times, posts received 81 likes and reposted 45 times. May 2023 post on X/Twitter relating to research by Matt Bennett and Maria Petrillo were viewed 27,500 times, videos with these posts were viewed 15,077 times, receiving various comments like: "At last someone like CfC are highlighting some facts and issues" Update March 2025 X highlights We no longer have access to X analytics and will shortly be ceasing activity on here. Three members of UK parliament reposted our report on Kinship Carers (Feb 2025)- Ian Byrne, Grahame Morris and Liz Jarvis: "New research from @kinshipcharity and @CentreForCare highlights the £4.3bn value of #KinshipCare in England. But #KinshipCarers can't pay for the essentials with their love alone - that's why we must invest in #KinshipCare." Wendy Chamberlain quoted our Valuing Carers research in the passing of the Carer's Leave Bill, also reposting our thread on X about the parliamentary debate on 'Potential merits of a cross-Government strategy on unpaid carers (3/9/24): "Thank you to @CentreForCare for their research and work with @CarersUK and this great thread on my adjournment debate last night! #unpaidcarers" LinkedIn highlights LinkedIn new followers (12 months): 219 Our festival of Social Sciences event was attended by local organisations, people with lived experience and expert in Digital Exclusion. One attendee from Good Things Foundation said: "Today I was struck by the power of play to bring the serious topic of digital exclusion alive. The University of Sheffield's Centre for Care demonstrated their Mind the Gap: Tackling Digital Exclusion giant board game as part of the Festival of Social Sciences. As four volunteers from the audience were guided through the game, we were supported to think about the complexity of digital exclusion and how it impact people's lives. We learned what the lack of kit, connectivity, skills and confidence to access everyday services such as GP appointments, benefits and government services means to real people and how exhausting it can be to get what you need when there are so many barriers to being online. As the game was played, we were supported in our learning by a panel of people who bring different experiences of and perspectives on digital exclusion/inclusion. The magic of the play lay in the combination of the game, the experts and the invitation to the audience to share their views and experiences. The game is the brilliant brainchild of Dan Williamson and colleagues. Well done to all involved for a thought-provoking event" And Director & Co-Founder of Learn For Life Enterprise of said: "We had a very insightful discussion today at The University of Sheffield Centre for Care event, Mind the Gap: Tackling Digital Exclusion Board Game Launch, as part of the Festival of Social Sciences. It was interesting to hear people's thoughts on the different digital barriers, and practical obstacles, that stop everyday tasks being completed and to share knowledge and ideas. Good luck to the board game as it goes on tour!" As X becomes more challenging to use, we have recently set up Instagram and BlueSky accounts. Both currently with a smaller audience base, but growing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CentreForCare |