Amber Cagney

The implications of population ageing for social policy The UK population is ageing, with some ageing better than others. This has implications for health and social care, housing, pensions and education policies.

Centre for Care Director, Kate Hamblin, has contributed to a new House of Commons Library briefing entitled 'The implications of population ageing for social policy'.

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@houseofcommons.parliament.uk @commonshealth.bsky.social @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social

We're looking for organisations to host IMPACT projects in 2026-27

We're looking for sites of all sizes, from individual services to whole regions

View the long list of possible topics here: impact.bham.ac.uk/contact-us-2...

To explore our longlist and application process, and answer your questions, we're hosting briefing sessions on:

Monday 15 September, 2pm
Tuesday 30 September, 2pm
Wednesday 15 October, 11am

Register now to receive joining details: forms.office.com/e/9d7EzRA7fa

We're looking for organisations of all sizes to apply to host IMPACT Demonstrators, Facilitators and be part of a Network...

But what is a Network?

Find out more and apply: impact.bham.ac.uk/contact-us-2...

Membership | Sheffield Health and Social Care As an NHS Foundation Trust we are answerable to our our members.

We want to make sure that the decisions we make are right for the people of Sheffield. We do this by getting a steer from people who use or may one day use our services.

The best way for you to help is to become a member.

Find out more here 👇 https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/get-involved/membership

Did you know that our evidence informed change model includes helpful tools to support change in social care?

Find out more about co-production, world cafes and more: impact.bham.ac.uk/our-mission/...

YouTube video by Lynda Holt RIPPLES - a film about incivility at work

🎞️ 2-minute film about the personal cost of incivility in the workplace from @lyndaholt.bsky.social and Firewood Studios.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukxs...

❓What would you do?

#leadership #civility #RestorativePracticeAtWork

We have EIGHT vacancies on the IMPACT website right now - they are all super exciting opportunities to join our growing team and help support our aim of improving adult social care across the UK.

Find out more and apply: impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/v...

Carers Wellbeing Course | Sheffield Health and Social Care This course is designed to support unpaid adult carers to learn ways of improving their mental and physical wellbeing.

Carers do a vital job supporting their loved ones, but it's important that they look after themselves too.

This course has been specially designed to support people in #Sheffield with the demands of being a #carer.

Find out more 👇

See the @impadultcare.bsky.social website for new roles embedding lessons from our work in policy and practice in each of the four nations and across the UK, plus a chance to work as a Project Officer in our Northern Ireland team! impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/v...

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Join our team!

We are recruiting a Research Associate to support important research and impact activity within the Centre’s ‘Digital Care and Innovation’ theme.

Learn more and apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN783/r...

#hiring #job #research

@sheffielduni.bsky.social @acadsocsciences.bsky.social

Morning Star headline: Sultana warns that the next election will be a fight between “socialism and barbarism' With a photo of Zarah Sultana speaking after a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025

ZARAH SULTANA has warned that Labour aping right-wing slogans will only see what has happened in the US, Brazil and India happen in Britain. The Independent MP told the "confronting the rise of the far-right" panel at Glastonbury festival's Left Field stage on Saturday warned that the next election will be a fight between "socialism and barbarism."

"We have to ensure that we defeat Nigel Farage or any kind of fascist incarnation we have at the time," she said Ms Sultana also praised Jeremy Corbyn as "the best prime minister we never had" as she hit out at Sir Keir Starmer for failing to apologise for his "island of strangers" comments. "That made people unsafe... so shame on the prime minister," she said.

"We have seen immigration policies that have not been framed around dignity. "It's a politics that punches down and not up, a politics that scapegoats the most marginalised people." She added: "The answer to the politics of hate is the politics of solidarity. "We have to fight in every possible way — electorally, in our communities, through our trade unions."

The answer to the politics of hate is the politics of solidarity.

Wrong hashtag… #TCC2025

Programme | Transforming Care Conference 2025 | University of Helsinki The programme for the 7th Transforming Care Conference is now available. Please note that some changes are still possible.

The Transforming Care Conference 2025 starts today!

This year’s theme, Social and Human Rights in Care, explores how social care intersects with human rights in childcare, disability and long-term care.

We open it with a keynote by @margaleon.bsky.social : Children’s Rights and Welfare Paradigms?

Huge congratulations to IMPACT’s #CoProduction member Isaac Samuels and Sheffield's Prof Sue Yeandle, both recognised in the #KingsBirthdayHonours!

Isaac for services to social care & Sue for research into care & caring.

Your impact is remarkable, this is deeply deserved!

This week I’m in Helsinki, Finland presenting with Maria-Teresa Ferazzoli about IMPACT networks as a method to implement co-production. Really looking forward to meeting more people dedicated to enabling more voice, choice and control within social care. #TTC2025 @impadultcare.bsky.social

CIRCLE Showcase June 2025 On Tuesday 17th June 2025, CIRCLE held a showcase of our research theme updates for colleagues at the University of Sheffield.

On Tuesday 17th June 2025, CIRCLE held a showcase of our research theme updates for colleagues at the University of Sheffield.

@danswilliamson.bsky.social provides a write up here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/circle/news/...

#research #care #caring

Too often, adult social care is seen as crisis care. But what if we framed it as essential infrastructure — like education or the NHS?

A new IMPACT paper explores how public perceptions can shift through better language, tested metaphors & collective action

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This week, we published the latest Ask IMPACT guide – all about what it’s like to be a self-funder and what could be done differently.

Find the full guide here: impact.bham.ac.uk/delivery-mod...

Clenton reflects on our latest Ask IMPACT guide We asked Clenton Farquharson, IMPACT’s thematic lead for lived experience, ... Read more

“Start with values: People deserve care and clarity, not confusion and crisis.”

Clenton Farquharson reflects on our latest Ask IMPACT guide in this new blog: impact.bham.ac.uk/2025/06/03/c...

Catherine Needham explains some of the barriers and challenges self-funders and their families can face.

Find out more in our Ask IMPACT guide here: impact.bham.ac.uk/delivery-mod...

IMPACT Academic Seminar 11 June 10:00-12:00

Join us for a session exploring community based approaches to mental health care. With leading academics & lived experience members examining dynamics between care & control & the evolving role of social work.

To sign up: buff.ly/CL0avvq

Just 1 in 5 people (19%) know that the cost of professional home care services could cost more than £1,000 per week. Most thought the cost was lower, with almost half (47%) thinking costs were between £200 and £600 a week on average. This is from a JRF poll carried out by FocalData in 2024.

People are unaware of high care costs, the cost of caring yourself, or long waiting lists.

Most of us hope the social care system will be there for us in times of need. But the system we have currently is inadequate.

Our latest analysis has found a ‘care expectation gap’ 🔽 1/4

This genocide is the litmus test — and we must do everything to stop it.

🇵🇸 Full interview with @declassifieduk.org: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvvb...

Disability Dialogues A joint venture of iHuman, University of Sheffield; Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds; Disability Innovation Institute, UNSW and NIE/NTU Singapore

We are super excited to introduce Disability Dialogues, a space where critical disability studies researchers across discipline and institutions come together hold conversations about access, activism, and ableism in academia. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

We urge the UK Government to abandon its harmful language against the migrant community and to focus on delivering an effective plan to prevent exploitation.

Join us on 13 June, 10:00-11:00 for a briefing on IMPACT’s work in Northern Ireland!

Hear how evidence is improving adult social care through our Delivery Models, and find out about how you can get involved in our work.

Register here: forms.office.com/e/cmaNL5dWNJ

Front and Centre: with Changing Our Lives - Exhibition - Ikon Ikon presents Front and Centre, a photography project that celebrates the individual personalities of people with a profound and multiple learning dis

Great launch of this exhibition, around the personalities and family lives of people with profound and multiple learning disability (too often invisible in art and society). Thanks to Changing Our Lives and the Ikon for helping to tell people's stories: www.ikon-gallery.org/exhibition/c...

On Wednesday morning, I hosted a roundtable organised by @centreforcare.bsky.social. We heard from working carers and employers who generously shared their experiences of juggling work and care, as well as from researchers who presented research evidence in support of paid carer’s leave.

Vacancies - Adult Social Care - Apply Today IMPACT's vacancies span across the four nations of the UK, as much of our work is based within local organisations.

We have 24 brand new #IMPACTDemonstrator and #IMPACTFacilitator vacancies, right across the UK

0.5/50%
12 month contract (target start September 2025)
Closing: Tuesday 1 April

Find out more here: impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/v...