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Stewart KirkpatrickAccess Social Care, who challenge the UK Government over lack of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparency</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/socialcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialcare</a> funding, are gathering the views of members of the public to share as evidence for an important government commission, which begins next month. Please share your views using thia short survey now: <a href="https://tally.so/r/m6Mj9A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tally.so/r/m6Mj9A</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayIt looks like the employers NI increase may be the final straw for an adult care sector already in crisis.... while the immediate cause of a deepening crisis may be the NI increase, really the clear structural problem is an historic under-funding of adult social care.So, while Rachel Reeves can be blamed for the next stage of this crisis, really its roots lie with previous Govts. and an unwillingness to fund the system adequately...Its not looking good!<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/20/social-care-sector-faces-collapse-as-nics-and-wage-rises-loom-providers-warn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/20/social-care-sector-faces-collapse-as-nics-and-wage-rises-loom-providers-warn</a>

Robot Talk📢 New Episode Alert! This week, I chatted to Dr. Catherine Menon from the University of Hertfordshire about designing home assistance <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#robots</a> with ethics in mind. 🤖 🏡Listen now: <a href="https://www.robottalk.org/2025/02/21/episode-110-catherine-menon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.robottalk.org/2025/02/21/episode-110-catherine-menon/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robotics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a>

Ally MillerIn an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/nhs-britain-immigrants-dad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/nhs-britain-immigrants-dad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Immigration</a> The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HostileEnvironment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HostileEnvironment</a> continues - shameful and evidence the country is set on continued decline.

Dyfrig WilliamsSome of the accounts in this are heartbreaking. So much to learn here around what better pre-birth work can and should look like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/25/i-cant-sleep-im-terrified-the-rise-in-mothers-having-their-babies-taken-away-within-days-of-giving-birth-in-england" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/25/i-cant-sleep-im-terrified-the-rise-in-mothers-having-their-babies-taken-away-within-days-of-giving-birth-in-england</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialWork</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayAnyone who thinks the DWP will limit its (new) powers to directly remove money owed from benefits claimants bank accounts, and apply to have them banned from driving for two years for 'repeatedly' refusing to repay DWP money, to those who are claiming benefits fraudulently, has not been paying attention...How long before the first un-paid carer is banned from driving making their ability to offer care for a loved one impossible?I give it weeks....<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DWP</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/22/dwp-crackdown-could-see-people-banned-from-driving-if-welfare-debts-go-unpaid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/22/dwp-crackdown-could-see-people-banned-from-driving-if-welfare-debts-go-unpaid</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayDo we really need another study/inquiry on social care?After all Scotland & one London Borough have utilised free home care to alleviate aspects of the social care crisis as a practical experiment; might policy makers take advantage of such experience & more quickly re-frame adult care?Well, of course, the budgetary implications mean its better (once again) to be kicked into the long grass, whatever the personal costs to the vulnerable!<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/19/is-this-the-way-to-fix-social-care-in-england" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/19/is-this-the-way-to-fix-social-care-in-england</a>

Dyfrig Williams"Share what you've learnt, not what you know" < Love this from @richdevine.bsky.social on working out loud on the Relational Activism in Social Work podcast <a href="https://www.relationalactivism.com/podcast/ep13-the-courage-to-be-disliked" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.relationalactivism.com/podcast/ep13-the-courage-to-be-disliked</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialWork</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈lol, but this is exactly what will happen and Wes knows it in his little plastic heart. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/the-guardian-view-on-social-care-there-can-be-no-more-excuses-for-inaction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/the-guardian-view-on-social-care-there-can-be-no-more-excuses-for-inaction</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WesStreeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WesStreeting</a>

Dyfrig WilliamsBefore Christmas I caught up with my colleague Emily Smith to record a Research in Practice podcast on professional curiosity, and she shared tonnes of useful resources <a href="https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/podcasts/what-is-professional-curiosity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/podcasts/what-is-professional-curiosity/</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialWork</a>

Geriatric GardenerThe excellent UK blogger on all things health-related, Roy Lilley, gets it “spot on” yet again on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>’s stupid prevarication on Social Care & NHS turn-around!<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@UKLabour</a> “Before”<a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Before.html?soid=1102665899193&aid=QSh8KyB2xvg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Before.html?soid=1102665899193&aid=QSh8KyB2xvg</a>“Currently Charmer has +70 committees and groups looking at policy options. I can’t believe it, he’s only gone and done it again… another one.”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Casey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Casey</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dilnot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dilnot</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Charmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Charmer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Streeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Streeting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NationalCareService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalCareService</a>

KB“Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care.”Not just social care. They had plenty of time—fourteen years!—to ponder the entire range of issues central to the wellbeing of the British people and economy. They should have had it all worked out, and hit the ground running. What were they doing in lazy opposition? I don’t want to hear any more “£22bn black hole” excuses. Or yet another bloody “commission” or “consultation”.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/labour-had-plenty-of-time-to-ponder-social-care-now-it-has-a-chance-to-deliver" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/labour-had-plenty-of-time-to-ponder-social-care-now-it-has-a-chance-to-deliver</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Government</a>

MikeWith all the talk about social care in <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> at the moment there's an assumption that it only affects the elderly.There's a huge number of people in social care who are not elderly and I seriously hope they are being considered by the government and it's review.This includes people with severe and profound learning disabilities, as well as people with severe mental health issues needing care.Our family experiences of moving from hospital care to care in the case of mental illness has been extremely mixed.The common factor in all of this seems to be that Social Care is seen as a profit centre by a huge number of businesses - and I'm unconvinced that many of them have the interests of the clients at heart.<a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/learningDisabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learningDisabilities</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/socialCareReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialCareReview</a>

Geri ❤️The Labour Party are launching another review into <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> It won't report until 2028<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/useless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#useless</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"Now is not the time" will be the words on Labour's coffin come the next electionThey're not going to change, and any backbencher that steps up and demands something be done runs the risk of being ejected from the Party. This isn't a democracy, you are living in a global coup that will rob your children of hope and a future.....but sure, it's the 'Immigrants' isn't it? Never the rich men....<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jan/03/martin-rowson-wes-streeting-adult-social-care-reform-cartoon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jan/03/martin-rowson-wes-streeting-adult-social-care-reform-cartoon</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WesStreeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WesStreeting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayLouise Casey has been appointed to head up a review of social care, which will report in three years timeHowever, given that we already know that a lot of the problem with social care is a lack of funding (there are also some prospects for reform), another review looks like an attempt to find a way out of the crisis without spending the money required.However, reasonable & wide-ranging the review is, without a major refinancing of social care, it will mean little!<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> h/t FT

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Remember when we absolutely had to do Brexit in 4 years (before that EU tax thing came into effect)The lack of action on Social Care will be another win for Farage, we need bold policies to fight fascism, not this weak shit.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a>

Ally MillerWarning of ‘quad-demic’ as flu and Covid cases rise in England <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/05/warning-of-nhs-quad-demic-as-flu-and-covid-cases-rise-in-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/05/warning-of-nhs-quad-demic-as-flu-and-covid-cases-rise-in-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a> As the on-going <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NHSCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHSCrisis</a> briefly gets some media coverage I think it worth noting that things are bad, but have been bad for sometime and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHS</a> needs time to rebuild, and won’t function properly without improvement in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a> (where reform is not even on the radar). The on-going lack of attention to reducing the spread of infectious disease is also shameful

Police State UK"A new £600m recovery grant will be targeted at England’s most deprived towns and cities, alongside longer-term “fair funding” plans intended to rebalance council funding away from the more affluent south-east.""The financial problems dogging <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/councils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#councils</a> have driven an unprecedented number of them into or close to insolvency in recent years as they struggle with soaring costs for <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialCare</a>, special educational needs and <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelessness</a>."<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/EngPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EngPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SEN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SEN</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/28/council-funding-redirected-rich-areas-most-deprived-england-local-government" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/28/council-funding-redirected-rich-areas-most-deprived-england-local-government</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MaySarah Woolnough chief executive of The King’s Fund argues the Govt. needs (quite urgently) to do three things around social care:Help social care providers deal with the shifts in employment rights & the rise in employers NI payments;Plan for making social care fairer & better available to all levels of society;Reform the system to enable it to help people stay more independent - preventing an early dependence on social care.None easy, but all necessary & urgent.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialcare</a> h/t FT

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