by Alex Fox | Jun 4, 2025 | Adult social care
The reorganisation of local government in 21 areas across England presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset how adult social care (ASC) is delivered. How the next generation of adult social care services is set up will profoundly affect the quality of...
by Alex Fox | Apr 22, 2025 | Adult social care, Being IMPOWER
At a recent event hosted by the IMPACT centre for implementing evidence in adult social care at Birmingham University, a group including the outgoing and incoming Chief Social Workers and some of the leading proponents of strengths-based approaches explored how far...
by Alex Fox | Mar 11, 2025 | Adult social care, Local government transformation
The government’s proposed Local Government Reforms for England will redraw the map of councils, replacing the remaining ‘two tier’ councils (which have a large county council and a set of smaller borough councils sharing responsibility for the county’s public...
by Mark Lloyd | Feb 13, 2025 | Adult social care, Education and inclusion, Local government transformation
Blogpost co-authored by Mark Lloyd and Jeremy Cooper There is an £18bn opportunity at the centre of local government reorganisation (LGR). This week 21 areas (covering 40 upper tier councils and 23 million residents) were formally invited to submit suggestions of how...
by Kirsty Jordan | Jan 14, 2025 | Adult social care
Funding for Adult Social Care (ASC) has been a hot political topic for several years. With funding reforms shelved yet again, and budgets getting increasingly stretched, councils are having to look hard at how they maximise the income they receive for ASC, both...
by Samuel Rose | Dec 16, 2024 | Adult social care
Investment and need for change The government has increased funding for digital and capital investment in healthcare, raising the NHS capital budget by 10.9% to £13.6bn by 2025/26. Our healthcare system faces a “curve of doom” demand that current...
