Last week Unit Research Fellow Jess Harris co-convened (with Ellie Atkins) an event on the Specialist #Homelessness Social Worker role – chaired by Sarah McClinton Pictures, slides and onward links: 👇👀https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/the-impact-of-the-specialist-homelessness-social-work-role-and

Care Work project is launching a new Community of Practice The project is welcoming participants. First online meeting: 18 November 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/care-wo...

Are you a postdoc researcher interested in dementia and neurodegenerative diseases? Join us in York on 25 November for a FREE policy workshop co-hosted by #denpruQM, NIHR Three Schools' Dementia Research Programme & @i-care-dtc.bsky.social. Interested? Find out more & sign up: tinyurl.com/4xz7ys27

Deprivation of liberty update – the Supreme Court, DHSC and CQC Three important developments, on different timelines, have occurred in relation to deprivation of liberty. The first is the publication on 23 October by the CQC of their annual State of Care Report, which includes a specific section…

At the Margaret Butterworth Care Home Forum today #mbchf www.kcl.ac.uk/news/at-the-...

Mental Capacity Act 2005 news: "Government to launch a consultation on Liberty Protection Safeguards to improve safeguarding for vulnerable people...in the first half of next year" to inform a "revised Code of Practice" www.gov.uk/government/n...

Better regulation, better care Link to the CQC's consultation about its proposals to evolve and improve its approach to assessing and rating health and care providers. Consultation now open, closing 11 Dec 2025. www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/how...

At the Home Care Research Forum 19 November 2025 14:00 to 16:00 #hcrf >> Use of social care by people with dementia who live alone - Claudio Di Lorito >> Nutritional intervention to support people living with dementia receiving home care - Gladys Yinusa www.kcl.ac.uk/events/home-...

📢 Evidence & Policy journal SPECIAL ISSUE Call for Abstracts: "Strengthening research practice partnerships in social care: Evidence, impact and policy learning" Guest Editors: @annetteboaz.bsky.social & @a-mtowers.bsky.social Abstracts deadline 3 November. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/strengt...

📢 Evidence & Policy journal SPECIAL ISSUE Call for Abstracts: "Strengthening research practice partnerships in social care: Evidence, impact and policy learning" Guest Editors: @annetteboaz.bsky.social & @a-mtowers.bsky.social Abstracts deadline 3 November. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/strengt...

New in the #Homelessness series Homeless applications: barriers to in-person help & impact on hospitals 11 December 2025 10:00 to 11:00 Online. All welcome! with Jo Underwood of @kcllaw.bsky.social & Hannah Piggott of @policyatkings.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/homel...

From DHSC- Open call for evidence: 10 Year Workforce Plan (Closes 7 November 2025) consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/10-year-work...

Our Community First Responders work, noted here by Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care Karin Smyth MP, is available via: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/communi...

National Workload Action Group reports published Mary Baginsky contributed to new reports on social worker workload www.kcl.ac.uk/news/nationa...

On the blog: ▶️The important role of homecare workers in dementia palliative care and interventions to support them -by Fatima Mujtabah blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcarewo...

Slides from this week's meeting of the #hcrf www.kcl.ac.uk/events/home-...

Coming up on Wednesday at the Unit 👇

Slides from today's Social Work History Network meeting on "Social Work Networks: Past, Present and Future" #swhn from James Blewett Jane Tunstill @joehanley.bsky.social @socwkhistory.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/socia...

House of Commons Education Select Committee cites Unit work by Ian Kessler and @annetteboaz.bsky.social The Committee has published: 'Solving the SEND Crisis' www.kcl.ac.uk/news/house-o...

Unit work presented in Utrecht Jess Harris discussed the Unit's MCA and Homelessness study at the 19th European Research Conference on Homelessness www.kcl.ac.uk/news/unit-wo...

Margaret Butterworth Care Home Forum - 22 October 2025 14:00 to 16:00 All welcome #mbchf ✔️Dementia Training for the Social Care Workforce - Becky Robinson and Megan Anderson, Alzheimer’s Society ✔️Thriving in Residential Care - Bethany Morgan-Brett, University of London www.kcl.ac.uk/events/marga...

New in British Journal of Social Work Visiting Professor Cheryl Regehr, with Reader in Social Care at the Unit Mary Baginsky and colleagues: Experiences of in-person violence and cyberviolence against child welfare workers in Canada. academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance...

Coming up on Thursday 👇

Coming up on Wednesday at the Unit 👇

Two recent Unit studies examined #volunteering with the ambulance service, and in adult social care The researchers reflect on the parallels and distinctions to be drawn- @annetteboaz.bsky.social - Alec Fraser - Kalpa Kharicha www.kcl.ac.uk/news/volunte...

Two recent Unit studies examined #volunteering with the ambulance service, and in adult social care The researchers reflect on the parallels and distinctions to be drawn- @annetteboaz.bsky.social - Alec Fraser - Kalpa Kharicha www.kcl.ac.uk/news/volunte...

New in the Homelessness series Harm Reduction and Belonging in the Provision of Homelessness Services 12 November 2025 10:00 to 11:00 Online. All welcome. with @ben-scher.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/harm-...

@hscwru.bsky.social Director @annetteboaz.bsky.social talking about what Careforce (care workforce) means this afternoon. Great to see a packed out room, despite the tube strikes.

Over 300 at the Homelessness series this morning 💡Pippa Hockton - Therapy of Presence 💡PhD student at the Unit Carolin Hess - women’s journeys through homelessness and violence Slides & comments from attendees: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/homel...

Social Work Networks: Past, Present and Future #swhn @socwkhistory.bsky.social Joe Hanley, Jane Tunstill, James Blewett, June Thoburn 25 September 2025 14:00 to 16:00 All welcome! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/socia...

NEW Community First Responders and the ambulance service Alec Fraser, Ben Hickman, Britt Regal, Tianne Haggar, & @annetteboaz.bsky.social examine the impact of CFR volunteers in report out today www.kcl.ac.uk/news/communi...

Coming up in September at the #Homelessness series: Homelessness & multiple disadvantage: responses to address women's trauma with Pippa Hockton of Street Talk And Carolin Hess - PhD student here at King's 10 September 2025 10:00 to 11:30. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/homel...

A great friend and colleague to many people at this Unit: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Coming up at Home Care Research Forum 24 Sept 2025, 2-4pm #hcrf Rebekah Luff: Leadership in Home Care Services – What works well? @myhomelifeuk.bsky.social ‬ & Lesley Williamson - PALLDEM-Homecare: Homecare workers providing end-of-life care for people with dementia www.kcl.ac.uk/events/home-...

On the blog: From the Health Services Research conference 2025 Antonina Semkina reports on the session on new roles in UK health and social care (a focus on new roles is part of the Unit's core work for DHSC). #HSRUK25 blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcarewo...

On the blog: From the Health Services Research conference 2025 Antonina Semkina reports on the session on new roles in UK health and social care (a focus on new roles is part of the Unit's core work for DHSC). #HSRUK25 blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcarewo...

Today we have released the latest size and structure information with up-to-date data about the adult social care sector and workforce in England in 2024/25. ➡️ Take a look now bit.ly/SizeAndStruc... #SizeAndStructure

NEW Parents with a learning disability in contact with social care and the courts: Falling between the two stools of social care - Mary Baginsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW Practitioners as researchers – experiences of four people working in hybrid roles in two local authorities and a university John Woolham et al www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW Practitioners as researchers – experiences of four people working in hybrid roles in two local authorities and a university John Woolham et al www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We were very pleased to see the Unit's work on homelessness recognized in the NIHR Annual Report this week - in particular a study funded by @nihrsscr.bsky.social examining the role of adult safeguarding: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/units-w...

NEW Policy gaps regarding social homecare in the context of end-of-life; a policy document analysis [preprint] -co-authored by the Unit's Cat Forward doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Now out: The role of adult social care for parents with learning disabilities when their children are no longer in their care Final report by Mary Baginsky and Emily Thomas from this @nihrsscr.bsky.social‬ study: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

On the blog: PhD student Carolin Hess reports from the International Sociological Association Forum in Rabat blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcarewo...

Mental Capacity Act 2005 and alcohol use Jess Harris and Stephen Martineau were in Peterborough www.kcl.ac.uk/news/mental-...

Would you like to find out about the 4Pi Questionnaire, a new tool to help assess patient and public involvement experiences, including how this resource can be incorporated within your organisation? Catch up with a recording of our webinar held earlier this month. 👇#PPI vimeo.com/1095930151

New date in the Homelessness series: The role of Social Work in supporting people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness with Ellie Atkins 14 October 2025 10:00 to 11:00 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-r...

Over 160 people attended this morning's Homelessness series webinar from Blackpool. Slides & news of next in the series: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/devel...

Recording & slides from this week's @socwkhistory.bsky.social look back at Sure Start are available via: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-s...

Coming up in September at the #Homelessness series: Homelessness & multiple disadvantage: responses to address women's trauma with Pippa Hockton of Street Talk And Carolin Hess - PhD student here at King's 10 September 2025 10:00 to 11:30. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/homel...