Join us for a creative workshop for the dementia care workforce!

Review follows research which found rapid growth in number of centres has come in absence of strategy or strong evidence

Emily Porro; Matt Trew

Polly Radcliffe (King's College London)

Dr Eleanor Wilson (University of Nottingham); Dr Cat Forward & Dr Abi Burgess (King’s College London)

NHS clinical support workers, such as Healthcare Assistants and Therapy Assistants, have been supporting learners in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Given the increase in demand for student support in NHS workplaces from work experience to vocational education placements, to apprenticeships and pre-registration degree students, this represents an additional, and much needed, source of capacity. It also represents a career development opportunity for support staff – an important group of NHS staff who are aspirant but, as mine and other’s research shows are frequently frustrated at the lack of opportunity to progress their careers.

Annette Boaz discussed ‘From Workforce to Careforce’ in Brighton

We aim to understand and better support care home staff who experience or witness racial abuse from people with dementia.

King’s is co-leading the NIHR ARC: London

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.