The Department of Health and Social Care is running a survey to explore the self-funder care journey and better understand how to support individuals and families in their care searches.
The survey can be found here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
From shaping LGR to driving digital transformation to support carers, Kathryn Marsden OBE, former Chief Executive @scie.org.uk, reflects on the charity’s work to improve social care for adults and children in her blog: www.adass.org.uk/looking-ahead-supporting-social-care-through-change/
Deborah Rozansky, SCIE’s Director of Policy, Research, and Information, highlights how combining lived experience with improved use of data can help create a more consistent, person-centred approach to care across the country in the most recent issue of Care Home Magazine👉🏼 carehomemagazine.co.uk
SCIE has responded to a speech by Baroness Louise Casey at the Nuffield Trust Summit today, 5 March 2026.
Visit our website to read our response, authored by our Interim Chief Executive, Gerard Crofton-Martin.
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In this article for Care Talk, Andrew Morley, Senior Practice Development Consultant at SCIE, explains how involving people who draw on care and support in the design, development and implementation of AI leads to tools that support better outcomes.
Read it here: www.caretalk.co.uk/latest-issue/
On Monday, Gerard Crofton-Martin stepped into the role of Interim Chief Executive at SCIE.
Today, Gerard has written a blog outlining his leadership priorities. Read it in full here👇🏼
SCIE was proud to support the awards, champion co-production and honour the incredible talent, commitment and achievements of our sector.
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On Friday, our Trustee, Isaac Samuels OBE, presented the Co-production Award at the Great British Care Awards National Finals—a celebration of social care excellence and the people committed to it.
SCIE has today, Monday 2 March 2026, responded to The King’s Fund report, ‘Not my priority: How the public sees social care (and what can be done about it)’.
Read SCIE’s response, authored by Gerard Crofton-Martin, our Interim Chief Executive, on our website.
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What can national standards of care help to address?
Social care in England faces deep-rooted challenges. National standards alone can’t fix them, but they can play a distinctive and important role if designed and implemented well.
Learn more👉🏼https://scie.info/WhatCanNationalStandardsAddress
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On Friday, Kathryn Marsden OBE, SCIE’s Chief Executive, will step down from her role after almost six years at the helm.
In this blog, Kathryn reflects on her career, her time at SCIE, and the future of social care: scie.info/KathrynMarsd...
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SCIE is proudly partnering with Care Talk Magazine once again for The Housing with Care Awards.
Learn more about the award categories and submit your nominations here before 24 April 2026👉🏻: www.housingwithcareawards.co.uk/nominate/
Kim Wilkes will be running the London Marathon 2026 in April, raising funds for SCIE! Kim is now almost halfway to her fundraising target!🏃🏼♀️
If you would like to contribute to Kim’s fundraising efforts, you can do so via her GoFundMe page👉 www.justgiving.com/page/kim-wil...
What should good care services deliver for people?
This was a key question SCIE and the social care sector grappled with as part of its new report 'Towards a National Care Service: Raising national standards of care'.
Read the full report here: www.scie.org.uk/app/uploads/...
In the latest episode of the Local Authority podcast by the Local Government Chronicle, Paul Burstow – chair of SCIE – joins Martin George and Andrew Harrop to examine what a National Care Service could mean in practice.
The podcast is available here: www.lgcplus.com/podcast/
We are pleased to be supporting the NIHR Social Care Research Conference taking place on 5 March. The event will bring together research, practice and lived experience, advancing understanding, innovation and collaboration across the sector.
To register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-car...
National care standards will underpin the National Care Service, but what should they mean in practice?
SCIE’s new report tackles this question: www.scie.org.uk/app/uploads/...
Read @sojanjosephmp.bsky.social's question on progress made here: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
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Thank you again to everyone who joined us in Westminster for the launch of our new report📝.
In this blog, Gerard Crofton–Martin, Director of Transformation and Improvement at SCIE, offers reflections—and explores what must happen next: scie.info/WestminsterR...
This week, SCIE’s Housing Toolkits, as well as our ‘Co-production: what it is and how to do it’ guide, were cited in the Government’s statutory guidance for councils in England on preparing and delivering supported housing strategies.
scie.info/HousingToolk...
scie.info/CoProduction...
In this blog, Zoe Reynolds, Mental Health Practice Lead at SCIE, explores why the Mental Health Act 2025 is so important, the key findings from SCIE's advisory groups, and what SCIE is doing next.
In this blog, Isaac Samuels OBE, SCIE Trustee and Co-chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group (NCAG) and the Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) Board, explores why Race Equality Week is so important and the work that SCIE and TLAP are doing to make things fairer: scie.info/RaceEquality...
SCIE’s new report, ‘Towards a National Care Service: raising national standards of care’, sets out a framework for national standards of care.
Central to this framework is a core set of seven foundational principles.
To find out more, visit our website: scie.info/Foundational...
Today marks the start of #RaceEqualityWeek.
📹In this short video, SCIE's Chief Executive, Kathryn Marsden OBE, reflects on what the week means and why we are so proud to support it.
In this blog, Isaac Samuels OBE, SCIE Trustee and Co-chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group and the Think Local Act Personal Board, reflects on why national standards of care matter to them and to the sector—and why SCIE's new report is so important: www.scie.org.uk/why-national...
SCIE will support this work by continuing to convene partners, contribute evidence and learning, and work alongside government and the Casey Commission as thinking develops.
That’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who joined us today. It highlighted the sector’s shared commitment to ending the postcode lottery in care and protecting people’s safety, independence and wellbeing.
Stephen Kinnock, Minister of State for Care, has joined us to outline what’s next for social care.
He emphasises the importance of partnerships across the sector, integration across systems, and putting people who draw on care and support at the centre of their own care and reform.
Kathryn Marsden OBE, SCIE’s Chief Executive, describes the seven principles at the heart of our new framework for national standards of care.
She says SCIE will continue to support future standards work by bringing partners together to collaborate and innovate.
“Standards are about recognising the whole person.”
SCIE Trustee and Co-chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group, Isaac Samuels OBE, shares what national standards of care mean to them.
Sojan Joseph, sponsor of the event and MP for Ashford, begins his keynote speech.
He reflects on the value of SCIE’s timely report, particularly its emphasis on co-production, and what its findings mean for a future National Care Service.
