CARE MATTERS Podcast

CARE MATTERS Podcast

Care is a complex and important issue that affects everyone at some point in their life. The Centre for Care provides accessible evidence on care to inform changes that could improve the lives of millions of people. In the CARE MATTERS podcast, our researchers welcome experts in the field and those giving or receiving care to discuss crucial issues in social care, as we collectively attempt to make a positive difference to how care is experienced and provided. Produced by Dan Williamson at the University of Sheffield.

Episodes

May 16, 2024 36 mins
Values-Based Recruitment and Adult Social Care (Part three)

By the Centre for Care and IMPACT

Host: Laura Griffith, Deputy Head of National Embedding, IMPACT

Guests:

  • Paul Rooney- Professional Adviser, Northern Ireland Social Care Council
  • Alison Upton- Learning and Development Manager at Scottish Social Services Council
  • Andrew Bell- Programme Manager, WeCare Wales, Social Care Wales
  • Jon Kerr- Head of Workforce Capacity, Skills ...
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Values-Based Recruitment and Adult Social Care, part 2

Host: Laura Griffith, Deputy Head of National Embedding, IMPACT

Guests:

  • Paul Rooney- Professional Adviser, Northern Ireland Social Care Council
  • Alison Upton- Learning and Development Manager at Scottish Social Services Council
  • Andrew Bell- Programme Manager, WeCare Wales, Social Care Wales
  • Jon Kerr- Head of Workforce Capacity, Skills for Care

 

This episode focuses o...

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Our very first live episode! 

What are the potential benefits, risks and barriers to increasingly ‘digital social care’?

What are the realities of technologies and social care in the UK right now?

How can new and emerging technologies enhance care and people’s lives?

We are delighted to release the recording of our live podcast event, held at the University of Sheffield as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Fe...

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What is Values-based recruitment in Adult Social Care? Why is it important? Could it help to reduce the number of vacancies in the sector?

In part one of this episode Dr Kate Hamblin speaks with care sector employers about how they recruit, focussing on how values-based recruitment can lead to better retention and positive, person-centred care.

We are pleased to welcome special guests Anne Pridmore (CEO, Being the Boss), Dave Beesl...

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Centre for Care Researcher, Duncan Fisher, hosts Suliyat O'Balogun in this episode, which looks at established perceptions of home care provision, and how these perceptions inspired Suliyat to start her own home care business with a different model, with focus on sustainability, recruitment and retention, values and work place culture. They also discuss migration and individual care biographies, looking at Suliyat's journey into so...

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Dr Duncan Fisher hosts Richard Humphries in another edition of our CARE MATTERS mini-series, ‘Authors of Care’. Duncan asks Richard about his recent publication, ‘Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform’, exploring the themes of the book, the background and personal challenges which helped shape it, Richard’s recommendations for reform and much more.

Richard's book, ‘Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform’,...

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October 26, 2023 52 mins

We are delighted to welcome three esteemed guests to Care Matters; Professor Nancy Folbre, Dr Naomi Lightman and Professor Shereen Hussein. In this episode, hosted by Dr Duncan Fisher, our guests discuss the devaluation and underpayment of care work.

Drawing on experiences from the USA, Canada and the UK, they consider the challenges of assigning value to care, emphasising social, cultural and intergenerational dimensions.

Use...

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This episode looks into Catherine’s and Patrick’s recent book entitled "Social Care in the UK's Four Nations: Between Two Paradigms". Focusing on England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the book examines the differences in care systems.

Catherine and Patrick identify five care crises, including demographic changes, family roles, state involvement, market challenges, and community support. We discuss how policymakers in the ...

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Reflections on ’A gloriously ordinary life’: In conversation with Baroness Andrews

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The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee has been looking into what needs to change to create a fair, resilient and sustainable care system that better enables everyone to ‘live an ordinary life’, and in so doing, to have greater choice and control over their lives.  

This episode is a reflection, in Baroness Andrews' own words, on the ...

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The EU Care Strategy: a watershed moment for unpaid carers and care workers across Europe?

In this episode of the podcast we’re discussing the new EU Care Strategy, which was formally adopted by the European Commission in December 2022. Becky Driscoll, one of our Research Associates, is joined by guests Stecy Yghemonos and Zoe Hughes

Stecy shares his insights as the Executive Director of Eurocarers, a pan-European organisation ...

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This episode of the CARE MATTERS podcast is dedicated to Katie Mountcastle 1967-2022. A much loved and missed daughter, sister and friend.

The Invisibilities of Social Care: perspectives from unpaid carers

To coincide with the publication of the House of Lords report, To coincide with the House of Lords report published today- A “gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care- we are pleased to release a new podcast epi...

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Centre for Care Researcher, Dr Duncan Fisher welcomes Professor Teppo Kröger, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare), to the podcast to talk about Teppo's recent publication, 'Care Poverty: When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet' (click here to read the book).

Visit the website for the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare)

Other useful links mentioned in this ep...

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We are pleased to bring you a two-part episode, hosted by IMPACT Director, Jon Glasby, focussing on the work being done in IMPACT (IMProving Adult Care Together), the new UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care.  Funded, by the ESRC and the Health Foundation, with £15m over nearly 7 years, IMPACT seeks to help evidence of what works get used in practice to make a difference to services, and hence to people’s lives....

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We are pleased to bring you a two-part episode, hosted by IMPACT Director, Jon Glasby, focussing on the work being done in IMPACT (IMProving Adult Care Together), the new UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care.  Funded, by the ESRC and the Health Foundation, with £15m over nearly 7 years, IMPACT seeks to help evidence of what works get used in practice to make a difference to services, and hence to people’s lives....

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April 6, 2022 34 mins

Maria Cheshire-Allen (Researcher, at Swansea University) is joined by Irene Mortimer, (Swansea Carers Centre) and Jude Dale, (Dementia Friendly Swansea) to discuss how the concept of wellbeing as an enduring ideal defining what it means to live a ‘good life’ interacts with how care in older age is understood and experienced.  Together, they reflect on whether, and how the concept translates into everyday experience or the ‘right to...

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February 1, 2022 30 mins

Centre for Care Co-Investigator and Deputy Director of SPERI (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute), Tom Hunt is joined by Rachel Harrison (Public Services National Officer, GMB) to discuss the issue of mandatory vaccination for care home workers in England. Since November last year, it has been mandatory for all care home staff in England to have had 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their deployment in a c...

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Digital Care Futures 3. Digital Shift and Connectivity

In this final episode of the Sustainable Care and TSA Digital Care Futures podcast, Kate Hamblin (University of Sheffield) and Tim Mulrey (TSA) spoke to guests from two local authorities that had explored how to promote digital connectivity and inclusion, and the implications for the ways they were using technology in adult social care.

our guests:

Ann Williams, Commissi...

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Sustainable Care & COVID-19: Migrant Workers and the Delivery of Long Term Care in Austria, Australia and the UK

This episode is hosted by Professor Shereen Hussein from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and features special guests Professor Sara Charlesworth from RMIT University, Dr Ricardo Rodrigues from the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research and Dr Agnes Turnpenny from Oxford Brookes Un...

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Digital Care Futures 2. Technology and Care: Startups and Innovators

Technology is fundamental to our everyday lives and is becoming increasingly ‘smart’ through the use of sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data collection and processing. There has been an explosion of new developments in the care and technology marketplace, with new devices, software and service models, focused on different consumers within the care ecosys...

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Digital Care Futures 1. Commissioning differently: Evolving personalised care with technology

Traditionally most telecare, and now ‘technology enabled care services’ (TECS), focused on managing the risks associated with living in the community when people were older or requiring support. TECS helped people to ‘age in place’ at home when discharged from hospital or when living alone following a bereavement. These devices ...

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