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Check out our latest blog post on the challenges and rewards of social care in rural areas, from a carer's perspective. Read about the unique struggles faced and the importance of support in remote communities. You can find out more here! buff.ly/3CphLoz Carers NI

Today we have announced our 2025-26 Demonstrator, Facilitator and Network projects and hosts, working right across the UK Find out more here: impact.bham.ac.uk/2025/02/04/imp…

Our Facilitators, co-lead by Kathryn Mackay and Karen Watchman, will be hosted by @ategiUK, @ScottishMCN, @LinksBorder, Brain Injury Matters, Carents, Street Paws/@StreetVetUK/Dogs Trust 💛🐶 Together Through Homelessness/Newcastle University, Newham London 💙 and @CarersWL

Our Demonstrators, lead by Prof Robin Miller, will be hosted by Conwy Council, Wrexham Council, Derbyshire CC, Calderdale Council, NHS Greater Manchester, NHS Western Isles, Southern Trust and Health and Social Care Northern Ireland

Prof Robin Miller Conwy Council Wrexham Council Derbyshire CC Calderdale Council NHS Greater Manchester NHS Western Isles Southern Trust Health and Social Care Northern Ireland Possible Networks include: citizen leadership, exploring the use of artificial intelligence in adult social care, meeting the social care needs of refugees and asylum seekers, using data to improve services, and new models of home care and reablement You can register interest

"There’s so much innovation, hard work and creativity – and the list of new projects is just the tip of the iceberg." Our Director, Jon Glasby, was inspired by the applications we received at the end of last year, and recognises the huge difference 2025-26 IMPACT projects will

Are you a social worker or care practitioner interested in developing research skills or pursuing further study/funding? Join UoB & NIHR School for Social Care Research for an in-person event on research pathways in your field. Sign up here: buff.ly/4jShqvN

Our Director Jon Glasby and Demonstrator Lead Prof Robin Miller are awarding a PhD studentship on leading evidence-informed change in adult social care, building on IMPACT's work - Fully funded studentship (covering home fees and a living allowance) - Full or part-time - Opportunity

Really keen to recruit to this - fully funded opportunity to do a PhD supporting practical change on the ground, while also being part of a national centre/testing a new IMPACT model for leading evidence-informed change

💔 Ryan and Emmie should have been watching baby Quinn grow up for the past 3 years. Instead, they've had to battle the NHS and its regulator to get the truth for Quinn who died at Nottingham Hospitals from care so bad it has been judged criminal: thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

Did you know that reading for pleasure is the biggest indicator of a child’s future success? That’s why @worldbookdayuk encourages everyone to let go of pressure and expectations to support children to enjoy reading. Celebrate #WorldBookDay on 6 March and #ChooseBookshops

"When you get to a point where 65% of your maternity units are classed as unsafe in a developed country it is an issue of public concern and these are basic thresholds for what a public inquiry entails.”

Our Director Jon Glasby and Demonstrator Lead Prof Robin Miller are awarding a PhD studentship on leading evidence-informed change in adult social care, building on IMPACT's work - Fully funded studentship (covering home fees and a living allowance) - Full or part-time - Opportunity

5-year survival for breast cancer is 98% if diagnosed at Stage 1 and 89.5% at Stage 2 (out of 4 stages). Early diagnosis through screening means treatment is less invasive and more effective. Please take up your screening invitation; it makes a major difference to outcomes.

1/2 Celebrating World Social Work Month! 🌍💙 Meet Charlene Hill, one of Northern Ireland’s first School Social Workers, who is making a real impact in students’ lives. Read Charlene’s full story here >>> bit.ly/4ir85JL

Such a privilege to welcome the Social Work Awards 2024 winners to Parliament this afternoon. 🎉 Social Workers do difficult and vital work every single day. So important we recognise them for it. ⭐s 🏆

Here at the Exchange in Birmingham today with Jon Glasby introducing “Achieving Closure” around what happens when care homes close. Looking forward to seeing Andy Russell training video

A very moving film about the distress that older people and their families when care homes close. Led by Meena Khan and made and narrated by Andy Russell . This research provides a road map in how to do this in the best way possible

1 in 5 care homes do close, so it is inevitable that it will happen. This research looks at how directors of social services, individuals and families have experienced care homes closure. Meena Khan Jon Glasby

What matters to people when their care needs to be transferred. The “little things” like having your handbag with you, or the way you like your tea, needs to be transferred too. Knowing how important tea is to me psychologically, especially when I’m upset, I felt this! Jon Glasby