Category: Social Care

Community Health Bulletin

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  • Smoking and vaping: guidance, policy and regulation
  • Healthy childhoods: shared responsibility for growing up well
  • Fighting Misinformation in the AI SEO era
  • What happens to strength, balance, stamina and reflexes as you age – and what you can do about it
  • NHS urges those eligible to book a flu jab ahead of this winter season
  • Study examines how remote mental health care is working in practice
  • Plus much more

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Credit to our coworkers over at Mersey Care.

In this edition:

  • National partnership agreement on asylum seeker health in England
  • Care continuity between midwifery and health visiting services
  • Billions are spent on child mental health services without knowing if they work in the long term
  • Major expansion of community mental health support across England
  • Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
  • Better support, better outcomes: New report highlights what works in early psychosis care
  • Plus much more
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Care to stay: a practical, place-based strategy for the adult social care workforce.

Re:State; 2026.

https://re-state.co.uk/publications/care-to-stay-a-practical-place-based-strategy-for-the-adult-social-care-workforce/
[Adult social care is a vital, yet frequently overlooked, public service. It supports people at some of the most vulnerable moments in their lives. Yet the workforce is struggling, threatening the quality & availability of adult social care services altogether. Immediate action to improve the challenges facing the workforce can, & must, be taken. This report calls on local authorities, care providers, the NHS, & the Government to take action to support & enable the adult social care workforce.]
Freely available online

NHS staff standards.

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC); 2026.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-staff-standards
[The NHS staff standards set national minimum employment requirements to improve staff experience, outlining employer actions and what staff can expect.]
Freely available online

New Resource: The mark of co-production

Co-production involves people coming together as equals to make decisions and create services that work for them. This new co-produced resource supports anyone interested in planning, running, or evaluating a co-production project. It outlines the definitions, celebrates the approach, and explores how projects can aim for the highest levels of co-production.

The tool is grouped into four key stages of co-production:

  1. Planning
  2. Process
  3. Completing, sharing, celebrating
  4. Review

Developed from work with adults’ social care, the core principles can be adapted to support practice with young people and more.

The resource is most effective when used to support reflection by all involved in a co-production project – including members of the public, practitioners, researchers, or managers.

Find out more: How to practice effective co-production | Research in Practice

What makes care outstanding?

Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2026.

This research looks at what makes care outstanding. In 2021, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) – the independent regulator of health and social care in England – started a major programme of change. Three independent reviews in 2024 and 2025 found serious problems with the way CQC put the changes into practice (Care Provider Alliance 2025; Dash 2024; Richards 2024). As a result, CQC is now rebuilding its approach to regulation. This includes developing 4 sector specific assessment frameworks.

Freely available online

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Preferences for Models of Care for Older People With High Care Needs: Survey of People Aged 50 years and Over in England.

Walbaum M. Health and Social Care in the Community 2026;Jan(1):9635386.

The rising number of older adults, many with long-term conditions or limitations in activities of daily living, is expected to increase demand for social care services and for housing options to accommodate their future care needs. Additionally, an increasingly diverse population may require care models that respond to different preferences, beliefs and values. This study aims to explore how preferences to meet future care needs vary across demographic, socioeconomic and care-related factors.

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Research in Practice

Dear all,

New Article: What supports evidence-informed practice in social care?

Earlier this year, Research in Practice conducted a small number of focus groups to hear from professionals in a range of roles about what supports them to use evidence in their practice. 

We heard excellent examples of how professionals at all levels were supported and enabled to use Research in Practice resources to support learning and development.

In this new article, Lorna Trend shares key findings from these conversations, highlighting how the use of research and evidence can have a positive impact on practice with children, young people, families, adults, carers and communities. 

New Workshops: Artificial intelligence-enabled practice in social care

This full-day workshop is designed to:

  • Build practitioner confidence in the safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence across social care;
  • Help practitioners and those supporting practice in using AI tools lawfully and responsibly for case recording and administration;
  • Focus on using AI in ways that align with professional standards, protect individual rights and dignity, and reduce the risks of ungoverned practice.

This workshop is aimed at: Frontline practitioners across Children’s and Adults social care, practice supervisors, practice leaders (including PSWs and service managers) and CPD teams.

Webinar: IPC review of occupational therapy best practice in adult social care – review findings.

Date: 15th July, 2026, 10:00am-11:00am

This webinar is relevant for: Occupational Therapists (OT) (adults services); Adult social care managers for local authorities; and Health leaders in areas where there is a collaboration between health & the local authority for service delivery of adult OT services. In late 2025, an English local authority commissioned the Institute of Public Care (IPC) to support them to understand more about effective models for OT within adult social care responsibilities.

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LSCFT Research Bulletin

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LSCFT Research Bulletin by Katie Roper