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There’s still time to register for our ‘Why Care Equity Matters: Learning from lived experience about barriers to care and support’ webinar🖥️ scie.info/Equity-Webin... 🗓️⏰ 4 November, 11:00 AM

🌟 SCIE is returning to NCASC🌟 We will be exploring what it means to ensure that everyone, regardless of their background, identity or circumstances, has equal access to high-quality social care. We’re looking forward to connecting, sharing ideas and learning together.

SCIE and TLAP have responded to the CQC's ‘The state of health care and adult social care in England 2025/26’ report. Read statements from Gerard Crofton-Martin, Interim Chief Executive at SCIE, and Fiona Flowers, Head of Practice Improvement (Making it Real) at TLAP, on SCIE’s website.

SCIE is proud to mark 25 years of supporting better social care. As momentum builds for reform, we remain committed to turning evidence, lived experience and best practice into real change. Read reflections in this blog by Baroness Glenys Thornton, Chair of our Board: scie.info/25-years-of-...

💻Why Care Equity Matters: Learning from lived experience about barriers to care and support💻 This webinar will explore findings from SCIE’s research with Thinks Insight & Strategy on how people experience inequities in social care. 🗓️⏰ 4 Nov, 11:00 AM Register for free: scie.info/Equity-Webin...

In the latest episode of Just Checking’s podcast, Gerard Crofton-Martin, Interim Chief Executive at SCIE, joins Amy Lewis to explore what the future of social care should look like. Watch the episode in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=axzV...

SCIE is celebrating 25 years of collaborating and innovating in care to improve the lives of adults and children. Read statements from our Interim Chief Executive, Gerard Crofton-Martin, and the Chair of our Board, Baroness Glenys Thornton, on our website: www.scie.org.uk/news/25-year...

At yesterday’s Second Reading of the Health Bill in the House of Lords, Baroness Glenys Thornton, Chair of the Board at SCIE, called for the voice of people who draw on care and support to remain capable of challenging the system. For the full Reading, see: www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

SCIE has responded to Skills for Care's ‘State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England’. Gerard Crofton-Martin, our Interim Chief Executive, said: “There are positive signs of stability.” Read more on our website💻

In this blog, Carrie Bower, Practice Development Consultant Trainer at SCIE, discusses the importance of taking a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to supporting older victim-survivors of domestic abuse: www.scie.org.uk/ageism-and-d...

Today, The King's Fund has published ‘Equal access: a fairer system of social care support for England’, setting out its recommendations on how to reform the social care sector. Read statements by SCIE and TLAP on SCIE’s website🔗

In the latest episode of Safeguarding Redefined, a podcast by Cornerstone Safeguarding, Carrie Bower, Practice Development Consultant Trainer at SCIE, joins Chris East to talk about domestic abuse in later life and why the signs are so often overlooked. 🎧 Listen below.

Day 2 of the Care Show is well underway! There is still time to come and see our safeguarding colleagues at Exhibition Stand N43 to learn more about how we can support you!

There’s less than one week to go📅 SCIE will be at the Care Show Birmingham, providing trusted expertise on social care issues and sharing insights from the several hundred safeguarding projects we have successfully delivered over the last three years. Register for free👉 www.careshow.co.uk

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has announced plans to better support and value the social care workforce, including a new collective pension scheme for care workers. Read SCIE's response, authored by our Interim Chief Executive, Gerard Crofton-Martin, on our website.

The Prime Minister delivered a speech to the Labour Party Conference today, outlining his vision for social care reform. Baroness Glenys Thornton, Chair of the Board for SCIE, said:

In the latest episode of the Care Matters Podcast, Dr Matthew Ford, Senior Research Analyst at SCIE, and Isaac Samuels OBE, SCIE Trustee and Co-chair of NCAG and the TLAP Board, join Professor Kate Hamblin to discuss SCIE's new care inequities research in depth👉 centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2026...

SCIE will join other sector leaders at the Care Show Birmingham to outline how we can support care providers through the rapidly changing social care landscape. Read statements by our Head of Safeguarding and our Head of Social Care Transformation and Improvement here🔗 scie.info/Care-Show-Bi...

DHSC's Adult Social Care Workforce Survey 2026 is now open📢. The survey, supported by Skills for Care, is your opportunity to share your experience. It takes around 20 minutes to complete. Please share it with your colleagues, members and networks👉 Ipsos.uk/ASCWorkforceSurvey

SCIE will be at Exhibition Stand N43 throughout the Care Show Birmingham to outline how we can work with care providers to anticipate and manage safeguarding risks. Alongside our focus on safeguarding, we will also be providing trusted expertise on wider social care issues in a keynote discussion📣

This week is Professional Care Workers’ Week📅. Hosted annually by The Care Workers'​ Charity, it is an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the invaluable contributions of professional care workers. 🔗To learn more about the week and how you can get involved, visit The Care Workers’ Charity.

We are excited to announce that SCIE will be exhibiting at the Care Show Birmingham in October⭐. 📅7 and 8 October 2026 📌 NEC Birmingham, Exhibition Stand N43 The Care Show Birmingham is free for all care professionals across the sector. Find out more and register👉 www.careshow.co.uk

Introducing Sector-Specific CQC Frameworks 📅24/09/2026, 10:10 AM 📍Online Ellie Haworth, Head of Social Care Transformation and Innovation at SCIE, will be taking part in a live Q&A on what’s changing across adult social care, mental health, hospitals, and primary and community care. Book now🔗

We are hosting a panel at the Labour Party conference with @centreforcare.bsky.social exploring how we tackle inequity and drive fairer reform across adult social care. Panellists include @annadixonmp.bsky.social @sojanjosephmp.bsky.social @philholmes.bsky.social www.scie.org.uk/news/detail/...

Older people experiencing domestic abuse can be overlooked. In a new article for Care Talk, SCIE’s Carrie Bower explores how ageism can contribute to that invisibility, and the role practitioners can play in recognising abuse. www.caretalk.co.uk/news/ageism-...

The Supreme Court’s recent Deprivation of Liberty judgment changed the landscape for everyone working across health and social care. In a new article for CMM, SCIE's Interim Chief Executive, Gerard Crofton-Martin, reflects on the judgment and the opportunities it presents.

In this article for The MJ, Gerard Crofton-Martin, SCIE’s Interim Chief Executive, outlines what needs to change to build a fairer, more equitable social care system.

⭐Strengths-based leadership CPD-accredited training⭐ There are only a few days left of our discount! This programme will support health and social care leaders and will run from October 2026 to January 2027. Find out more and register on our website.

The Prime Minister has established social care as a key government priority. The challenge now is ensuring that people experience policy ambitions in their everyday lives. Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) has shared what it hopes this will look like on its website.

On 2 June 2026, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark judgment that made two significant changes to the test for deprivation of liberty in care settings. Peter Tsoukkas, Research Officer at Essex Autonomy Project, University of Essex, explores this in detail in this blog.

SCIE is pleased to announce the appointment of three new trustees to our Board. We warmly welcome Sudha Bharadia, Adele Leighton and Dean Okereke and look forward to the perspective and experience they will bring. Find out more about them and our Board of Trustees on our website.

Our next popular strengths-based leadership programme is now available for booking. The programme will run from October 2026 to January 2027. We are running an early bird discount this summer, for both individuals and groups, until 31 August 2026. Find out more and register on our website.

SCIE & PCH digital programme: join our Communities of Practice📣 Leaders, managers and practitioners working in adult social care are invited to join our Communities of Practice and newly designed ‘AI surgeries’ to discuss AI and share real-life issues that councils are currently facing.

It’s been just over a month since SCIE’s annual Co-production Week📅 Since then, we’ve been sharing more content, insights, and examples to explore how co-production can help achieve better equity in care. Find out more and watch the recordings of our Co-production Week sessions on our website.

Co-production Week always provides an opportunity to pause, listen and learn. It became clear throughout the week that co-production can be a powerful tool for identifying and addressing inequities in care—but only when the co-production itself is genuinely equitable. Find out more in this blog.

SCIE's new qualitative research looks at how people drawing on care and unpaid carers experience inequities in social care. Dr Matthew Ford, Senior Research Analyst at SCIE, explores the key research findings in this blog.