King’s College London is co-leading a new partnership uniting London’s health and care community, underpinned by a significant investment in the city’s research infrastructure.

The study is based in the Homelessness Research Programme at King’s

Robin Means, Jon Glasby, Jill Manthorpe

Mark Russell-Smith (AI Dimension), Jarno Väisänen (AI Dimension) and John Bryant (Torbay Council)

Sotiria Kyriakidou, University of Manchester

We're hosting our largest-ever programme of events

Fears over future of postgraduate schemes allayed but government's long-term plan is to remove funding, warns LGA

Mary Baginsky (King's College London)

Robin Means, Jon Glasby, Jill Manthorpe

New report by Nicole Steils, Mary Baginsky, Ian Kessler and Kalpa Kharicha

New report by Nicole Steils, Mary Baginsky, Ian Kessler and Kalpa Kharicha

YouTube video by NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

Alison McGovern becomes minister responsible for adult social care after Andy Burnham signals intent to enact reforms

Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.

Olivia Luijnenburg's guide for use in care homes is now out

Evaluating a gambling harms initiative in 3 English local authorities

Shereen Hussein and Erika Kispeter, LSHTM; Sailus Maphosa and Fungai Danha, Pristine Health Solutions

The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments.

National roundtable at King’s College London

Liz Such, Annette Boaz and colleagues are examining the use of AI in justice and public health policy making

Evaluating volunteering in adult social care (ASC) within the ‘NHS and Care Volunteer Responders’ scheme

NHS 10 Year Plan: What is needed to deliver a sustainable workforce?

Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

Wenjing Zhang and colleagues discuss findings from the Leavers Study

Unit researchers discussed our work in Manchester this week

On the 16 July I chaired the first National Adults Safeguarding Board, created in direct response to Baroness Casey's safeguarding recommendations set out in her letter to the then Secretary of Health...

The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging.

Mary Baginsky and Nicole Steils were in Zurich

New study raises questions about the development of a key part of the child protection system

Richard Lowrie, University of Edinburgh

I have started a resources page on the AGNI case, and will start to populate it as more guidance and the like emerges.  The page includes links to a shedinar video that I have recorded about deprivation of liberty after the case, and also a podcast recorded with Community Care, which talks more broadly about the case.

Event set to mark the life and work of Keith Bilton, one of BASW’s founding members

In A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 UKSC 16, a seven member Panel of the Supreme Court has unanimously overruled the 2014 majority decision in Cheshire West.   The judgment is long and detailed.  A summary by the Supreme Court can be found…

Sarah Vicary; Kev Stone; Tim Spencer-Lane

As part of Dementia Action Week we highlight ongoing research at the Unit

Optimising foot care interventions. OPTIMISED DEMCARE training.

Sarah Vicary; Kev Stone; Tim Spencer-Lane

The practical tool for day centres and their professional stakeholders has a new website

The practical tool for day centres and their professional stakeholders has a new website

Optimising foot care interventions. OPTIMISED DEMCARE training.