SCIE media releases

• Innovation projects in adult social care receive £42.6 million boost (24 October 2023)
• State of Care report: SCIE response (12 October 2023)
• Skills for Care 'Size and structure' report: SCIE response (12 July 2023)
• Putting people at the heart of decision-making (03 July 2023)
• Early detection of changes for effective interventions for sundowning (20 June 2023)
• Whorlton Hall review (26 May 2023)
• SCIE’s Kathryn Smith to join Taskforce to transform older people's housing (17 May 2023)
• SCIE welcomes James Bullion's CQC appointment (27 April 2023)
• Kate Terroni to become Deputy Chief Executive at the Care Quality Commission (26 April 2023)
• Joint statement in response to BBC care home investigation (24 April 2023)
• Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care (04 April 2023)
• The Hewitt Review. SCIE response (04 April 2023)
• British Social Attitudes / Social care. SCIE response (27 March 2023)
• ‘Why are we stuck in hospital?’ – research reveals the challenges for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people trying to leave ‘long-stay’ hospital (14 March 2023)
• Lambeth Palace publishes its Independent Safeguarding Audit from SCIE (28 February 2023)
• Bishopthorpe Palace audit (31 January 2023)
• Archbishop’s Commission report, 'Reimagining Care'. SCIE response (24 January 2023)
• House of Lords adult social care report. SCIE response (13 December 2022)
• CQC 'State of play' report. SCIE response (21 October 2022)
• Panorama: Undercover hospital. SCIE response (29 September 2022)
• Funding for freeing up hospital beds. SCIE response (22 September 2022)
• Her Majesty the Queen (08 September 2022)
• Deputy Chief Executive Ewan King to leave SCIE (30 June 2022)
• Sector leaders call for action on social care workforce (25 March 2022)
• Important day for protecting the liberty of people who draw on care (17 March 2022)
• Universal Principles for Advance Care Planning (17 March 2022)
• Contribute to the development of a new SCIE resource on the impact of co-production (16 March 2022)
• Integration White Paper: SCIE response (09 February 2022)
• SCIE and Race Equality Week 2022 (07 February 2022)
• Care home visits 'unlimited' - SCIE statement (31 January 2022)
• Social Care White Paper: SCIE statement (01 December 2021)
• ICS Population Health Place Development Programme Supporting Population-based transformation of Place-based partnerships (16 November 2021)
• Ambitious new recommendations on the future of housing with care and support published by SCIE (15 November 2021)
• New film: Liberty Protection Safeguards. Looking forwards (27 October 2021)
• The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England. SCIE response (13 October 2021)
• Equal lives, good work and strong communities (30 September 2021)
• Social care funding announcement: SCIE response (07 September 2021)
• Care reform in the news: SCIE response (03 September 2021)
• Home care staffing survey: SCIE response (02 September 2021)
• SCIE response to ADASS report on 'avalanche of care requests' (14 July 2021)
• Limit on care home visitors to be lifted: SCIE response (06 July 2021)
• Social care reform - Letter to the Prime Minister, Chancellor and Secretary of State (21 June 2021)
• National Adult Social Care Strategic Partners: Our response to 2021 Queen’s Speech (14 May 2021)
• Queen's Speech: SCIE response (11 May 2021)
• 'Visiting out': SCIE response (04 May 2021)
• SCIE to be part of leading brand new centre to implement evidence in adult social care (24 March 2021)
• SCIE response to statement on social care (17 March 2021)
• Care home visits: Time to celebrate (08 March 2021)
• Boosting later life housing options key to ageing well says new report (18 February 2021)
• White Paper on health and care. SCIE response statement (11 February 2021)
• King's Fund report on social care leadership. SCIE response statement (11 February 2021)
• MPs report on PPE: SCIE response statement (10 February 2021)
• SCIE response to news of vaccines in care homes in England (01 February 2021)
• Vaccine welcome but a word of caution (02 December 2020)
• Making sense of SEND (24 November 2020)
• Priorities for the Comprehensive Spending Review (24 November 2020)
• Home care workers - Covid-19 tests. SCIE response (20 November 2020)
• COVID-19 deaths / Learning disabilities - SCIE response (12 November 2020)
• Providing care and support at home to people who have had COVID-19 (04 November 2020)
• SCIE's response to a second lockdown (02 November 2020)
• MP committee on social care funding: SCIE response (22 October 2020)
• Adult social care worker report: SCIE response (21 October 2020)
• Bespoke Co-production Training for Barnardo’s staff (20 October 2020)
• SCIE to lead a new Commission on the role of housing in the future of care and support (13 October 2020)
• IICSA report. SCIE response (06 October 2020)
• Social Care Winter Plan: SCIE response (18 September 2020)
• Beyond COVID-19. New thinking on the future of adult social care (03 September 2020)
• SCIE and Xantura partner to help councils support people who need care and support (30 July 2020)
• Re-uniting in care homes: SCIE statement (22 July 2020)
• Co-production Week 2020: ‘Co-production in a changing world’. 6 – 10 July. Virtual conference (06 July 2020)
• NHS England calls for reform: SCIE response (05 July 2020)
• Regular testing in care homes: SCIE response (03 July 2020)
• Celebrate the PPE milestone (26 June 2020)
• Celebrate easing lockdown but a word of caution on care services (23 June 2020)
• Latest resources to improve social worker support for autistic adults and adults with learning disability - including during the COVID-19 pandemic (18 June 2020)
• Visa extensions for health and care workers (15 June 2020)
• SCIE welcomes the new taskforce for the social care plan (09 June 2020)
• ONS on non-COVID deaths. Kathryn Smith's personal response (05 June 2020)
• ‘Golden opportunity’ with reduction in care home deaths (02 June 2020)
• Clap for Carers: And what it means for the future of social care (28 May 2020)
• "A sorry indictment". SCIE response to survey (22 May 2020)
• End care settings being used as incubators for COVID-19 (20 May 2020)
• Make care settings fortresses in the fight against COVID-19 (17 May 2020)
• COVID-19 and social care: Get the COVID-19 basics right (14 May 2020)
• Support during COVID-19 (12 May 2020)
• COVID-19 plan: Time for reflection and a need for clarity (11 May 2020)
• Care worker death rate: SCIE comment (11 May 2020)
• The new Covid-19 Adult Social Care Strategy is welcome, but there is more to do (15 April 2020)
• SCIE appoints new Chief Executive (09 April 2020)
• Supporting social workers’ digital capabilities (27 March 2020)
• National Mental Capacity Forum - Action Days 2020 (06 March 2020)
• Development of a post-qualifying module for practice leadership to support strengths-based practice (26 February 2020)
• Evaluation of the Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme (19 February 2020)
• New analysis on violence reduction in London (30 January 2020)
• New digital portal to strengthen safeguarding guidance for charities (22 January 2020)
• Social work with autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities (24 December 2019)
• Development of learning materials for Integrated Care Systems and STPs (26 November 2019)
• SCIE among City Hall's London Healthy Workplace award winners (20 November 2019)
• SCIE Chief Executive (29 October 2019)
• Social work practice and the needs of people who use services should drive the development and use of digital technology (14 October 2019)
• Kath Sutherland Cash (04 September 2019)
• Almost two-thirds of people don’t feel like they have a say in how their social care services work (02 July 2019)
• 46 % of unpaid carers unable to take a break in the last five years (14 June 2019)
• Social workers to be supported to develop digital capabilities (03 June 2019)
• everyLIFE PASSsystem evaluation (27 March 2019)
• SCIE response to NHS Long Term Plan (08 January 2019)
• Leadership in Integrated Care Systems (20 November 2018)
• Transforming care. Combine innovation and evidence. (14 November 2018)
• SCIE response to The Budget (29 October 2018)
• LGBTQI+ Disabled People: social care (20 October 2018)
• CQC State of Care report: SCIE response (11 October 2018)
• Strengths-based social care for children, young people and their families (19 September 2018)
• Local systems reviews – lessons learned (05 September 2018)
• SCIE on Sky News about care predictions for 2035 (31 August 2018)
• Coaching to Innovation Programme projects (22 August 2018)
• NAO's report - The health and social care interface: SCIE response (04 July 2018)
• The 100-year life: the role of housing, planning and design (15 June 2018)
• Supporting carers in Wales: new practice examples to stimulate discussion (13 June 2018)
• Survivors of abuse invited to help improve Church of England safeguarding practice (11 June 2018)
• The adult social care workforce in England. National Audit Office report (08 February 2018)
• Helping carers to stay in, or return to, employment (31 January 2018)
• Tackling loneliness and social isolation. The role of commissioners (24 January 2018)
• Innovation in adult social care: can it be scaled up to improve more lives? (10 January 2018)
• Transforming mental health support for our children and young people. (06 November 2017)
• LGBTQI+ Disabled People: social care (25 October 2017)
• What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care: Development Team (12 October 2017)
• Improving outcomes for children and young people by spreading innovation (06 October 2017)
• Using creative arts in care homes to improve residents' lives (21 September 2017)
• Paul Burstow announced as new SCIE chair (27 July 2017)
• Personalisation in care homes for older people (15 June 2017)
• Changing together: brokering constructive conversations (31 May 2017)
• SCIE chair appointment, with update (16 March 2017)
• Press release: Total Transformation - second edition (06 March 2017)
• Named social worker pilot – Interim report launched (15 February 2017)
• National Audit Office report on integration SCIE response (08 February 2017)
• Care workers: building the future social care workforce (17 November 2016)
• Lord Michael Bichard to step down as Chair of Social Care Institute for Excellence (11 November 2016)
• Total transformation – creating a five year forward view for social care (02 November 2016)
• Announcing a new partnership between QCS and SCIE (12 August 2016)
• National Co-production Week – Nothing about us without us (01 July 2016)
• Innovative nursing assistants programme: Report published (13 June 2016)
• Four new trustees for SCIE (25 January 2016)
• SCIE supporting new role of nursing assistants (27 August 2015)
• Change management in social care (30 June 2015)
• Dignity in Care – three new videos promoting innovative ideas to support caring with dignity (19 June 2015)
• Technology changing lives (10 June 2015)
• Deprivation of liberty – current practice in the light of the recent Supreme Court judgment (01 June 2015)
• Improvement support for care providers (28 April 2015)
• Messages from the frontline. Report from SCIE’s Roundtable event on leadership and the Care Act. (16 April 2015)
• Restraint in social care: What to consider (12 March 2015)
• New support for Independent Mental Health Advocacy (11 March 2015)
• Glass half full: Using the strengths-based approach with the Care Act 2014 (04 March 2015)
• Useful new Mental Capacity Act directory (03 March 2015)
• Sharing information to safeguard adults (12 February 2015)
• Changes to assessment and eligibility from April (02 February 2015)
• End of Life and palliative care: Thinking about the words we use (10 December 2014)
• Integrating personal budgets for people with mental health problems (09 December 2014)
• Dignity in Care: Four new videos (13 November 2014)
• The Care Act 2014 and commissioning advocacy: support from SCIE (29 October 2014)
• CQC's report: State of Care - SCIE response (16 October 2014)
• CQC Dementia Review: SCIE response (13 October 2014)
• How it feels to have dementia: New from Social Care TV (19 September 2014)
• Barker Commission Report: A new settlement for health and social care (04 September 2014)
• New business development and delivery director for SCIE (22 August 2014)
• New to Social Care TV: A Better Life for older people with high support needs (14 July 2014)
• New SCIE film - Whistleblowing: improving organisational practice (09 July 2014)
• New guide: Commissioning home care for older people (25 June 2014)
• A better life for older people with high support needs: the role of social care (20 May 2014)
• Adult safeguarding for housing staff (24 April 2014)
• Support in your first year as a social worker: New from Social Care TV (27 March 2014)
• Reality TV at its best (27 March 2014)
• House of Lords: Mental capacity. SCIE statement (13 March 2014)
• A and E figures: SCIE statement (29 January 2014)
• Autism quality standard – SCIE response (21 January 2014)
• Closing the Gap: Priorities for essential change in mental health – SCIE response (21 January 2014)
• Priorities for essential change in mental health – SCIE response (20 January 2014)