Reposted by Amber CagneyThink Local Act Personal @tlap.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Shape the conversation around the future of commissioning. Join us at 'Commissioning for the Future of Social Care' on 25th March. Tickets: buff.ly/GldLOPL An event from Self-Directed Support Network and Citizen Network, sponsored by Think Local Act Personal. 011
Reposted by Amber CagneyESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The Centre for Care Summer School 2026 applications deadline has been extended to Wednesday 11th March! Please share this fantastic opportunity with your networks and follow this link for more information: centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2026...centreforcare.ac.ukCentre for Care Summer School 2026The Centre for Care Summer School is a week-long residential programme in Sheffield in September 2026, for students whose PhD studies align with the themes and research of the Centre for Care. 001
Reposted by Amber CagneyESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Centre for Care Director, Kate Hamblin, has contributed to a new House of Commons Library briefing entitled 'The implications of population ageing for social policy'. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri... @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @commonshealth.bsky.social @socialpolicyuk.bsky.socialcommonslibrary.parliament.ukThe implications of population ageing for social policyThe UK population is ageing, with some ageing better than others. This has implications for health and social care, housing, pensions and education policies. 033
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 09/09/2025We'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... 023
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 10/09/2025To 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 012
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We'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... 011
Reposted by Amber CagneySheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust @shpu.bsky.social · 12/08/2025We 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 👇 www.shsc.nhs.uk/get-involved/member…shsc.nhs.ukMembership | Sheffield Health and Social CareAs an NHS Foundation Trust we are answerable to our our members. 011
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Did 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/... 052
Reposted by Amber CagneyLesley Parkinson @re-think.bsky.social · 09/04/2025🎞️ 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 #RestorativePracticeAtWorkyoutube.comRIPPLES - a film about incivility at workYouTube video by Lynda Holt 022
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 15/07/2025We 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...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 054
Reposted by Amber CagneySheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust @shpu.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Carers 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 👇shsc.nhs.ukCarers Wellbeing Course | Sheffield Health and Social CareThis course is designed to support unpaid adult carers to learn ways of improving their mental and physical wellbeing. 011
Reposted by Amber CagneyJon Glasby @jonglasby.bsky.social · 04/07/2025See 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... 131
Reposted by Amber CagneyESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Join 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 023
Reposted by Amber CagneyZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The answer to the politics of hate is the politics of solidarity. 320536
Reposted by Amber CagneyTransforming Care Network @tcaren.bsky.social · 25/06/2025The 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?helsinki.fiProgramme | Transforming Care Conference 2025 | University of HelsinkiThe programme for the 7th Transforming Care Conference is now available. Please note that some changes are still possible. 0174
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Huge 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! 021
Amber Cagney @ambercagney.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This 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 110
Reposted by Amber CagneyCIRCLE @circleshef.bsky.social · 20/06/2025On 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 #caringsheffield.ac.ukCIRCLE Showcase June 2025On Tuesday 17th June 2025, CIRCLE held a showcase of our research theme updates for colleagues at the University of Sheffield. 022
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Too 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 impact.bham.ac.uk/our-projects... 021
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 06/06/2025This 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... 044
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 12/06/2025“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...impact.bham.ac.ukClenton reflects on our latest Ask IMPACT guideWe asked Clenton Farquharson, IMPACT’s thematic lead for lived experience, ... Read more 032
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Catherine 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... 032
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 27/05/2025IMPACT 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 021
Reposted by Amber CagneyJoseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025People 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 16027
Reposted by Amber CagneyZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 22/05/2025This genocide is the litmus test — and we must do everything to stop it. 🇵🇸 Full interview with @declassifieduk.org: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvvb... 10410122
Reposted by Amber CagneyDisability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social · 19/05/2025We 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...sheffield.ac.ukDisability DialoguesA joint venture of iHuman, University of Sheffield; Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds; Disability Innovation Institute, UNSW and NIE/NTU Singapore 242
Reposted by Amber CagneyAnti-Slavery International @antislavery.org · 19/05/2025We urge the UK Government to abandon its harmful language against the migrant community and to focus on delivering an effective plan to prevent exploitation. 031
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Join 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/cmaNL5dWNJforms.office.comMicrosoft Forms 043
Reposted by Amber CagneyJon Glasby @jonglasby.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Great 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...ikon-gallery.orgFront and Centre: with Changing Our Lives - Exhibition - IkonIkon presents Front and Centre, a photography project that celebrates the individual personalities of people with a profound and multiple learning dis 011
Reposted by Amber CagneyWendy Chamberlain MP @wendychambld.bsky.social · 21/03/2025On 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. 094
Reposted by Amber CagneyImproving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) @impadultcare.bsky.social · 10/03/2025We 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...impact.bham.ac.ukVacancies - Adult Social Care - Apply TodayIMPACT's vacancies span across the four nations of the UK, as much of our work is based within local organisations. 021