News & Media Updates

Read our latest news updates and listen to IMPACT’s podcast features

We are always on the look out for blogs from across the adult social care sector, and from across the four nations. Please email us on [email protected] with ideas or content.

News Updates

  • IMPACT Launches Recruiting More Men in Care Facilitator Project at WHO CARES WINS Conference

    IMPACT Launches Recruiting More Men in Care Facilitator Project at WHO CARES WINS Conference

  • Recruiting more men

    Recruiting more men

  • Social Worker of the Year Awards – 2024

    Social Worker of the Year Awards – 2024

  • Can AI fix the care “crisis”?

    Can AI fix the care “crisis”?

  • Homes Not Hospitals webinar

    Homes Not Hospitals webinar

  • ‘IMPACT-ing the future’: thinking about adult social care in the long-term

    ‘IMPACT-ing the future’: thinking about adult social care in the long-term

  • Waiting Lists Demonstrator Launch and Celebration Event

    Waiting Lists Demonstrator Launch and Celebration Event

  • ‘Homes not hospitals’- a film about the impact of missed opportunities 

    ‘Homes not hospitals’- a film about the impact of missed opportunities 

  • Award Success at 2024 Social Policy Association Awards

    Award Success at 2024 Social Policy Association Awards

  • IMPACT Academic Seminar: Insights into Co-Research

    IMPACT Academic Seminar: Insights into Co-Research

  • The value of adult social care to us all: joint statement to National Party Leaders

    The value of adult social care to us all: joint statement to National Party Leaders

  • King’s Birthday Honours – June 2024

    King’s Birthday Honours – June 2024

  • Suggestions for connections!

    Suggestions for connections!

  • Election Briefing – 2024

    Election Briefing – 2024

  • Making a reality of asset-based practice in social care

    Making a reality of asset-based practice in social care

  • Care Act: 10 Years on from Royal Assent

    Care Act: 10 Years on from Royal Assent

  • Influencer life

    Influencer life

  • Reducing Loneliness: Connecting Communities

    Reducing Loneliness: Connecting Communities

  • ‘Making an IMPACT’ – Down Under

    ‘Making an IMPACT’ – Down Under

  • Find out more from 2024-25 host organisations

    Find out more from 2024-25 host organisations

  • IMPACT to run 20 projects across the UK in 2024-25

    IMPACT to run 20 projects across the UK in 2024-25

  • Collaboration through Co-production in 2023

    Collaboration through Co-production in 2023

  • Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE’s investiture ceremony

    Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE’s investiture ceremony

  • Policy and Practice Event, Wales

    Policy and Practice Event, Wales

  • Launching the first IMPACT Demonstrator project at Stormont

    Launching the first IMPACT Demonstrator project at Stormont

  • English Policy and Practice Roundtable

    English Policy and Practice Roundtable

  • Values Based Recruitment (VBR) Podcast Episode

    Values Based Recruitment (VBR) Podcast Episode

  • Happiness Lecture by Clenton Farquharson CBE

    Happiness Lecture by Clenton Farquharson CBE

  • Diversity Through Inclusion of Lived Experience in Recruitment

    Diversity Through Inclusion of Lived Experience in Recruitment

  • Friends United Together, a case study of choice and control

    Friends United Together, a case study of choice and control

  • IFIC Webinar: Asset-based and Inclusive

    IFIC Webinar: Asset-based and Inclusive

  • ‘Improving co-production’ Away Day

    ‘Improving co-production’ Away Day

  • Who Cares? An exploration of caregiving and care receiving

    Who Cares? An exploration of caregiving and care receiving

  • Workforce collaboration

    Workforce collaboration

  • Professional Care Workers Week – IMPACT webinar

    Professional Care Workers Week – IMPACT webinar

  • Clenton Farquharson’s honorary doctorate

    Clenton Farquharson’s honorary doctorate

  • Self-funders: Re-entering the social care story

    Self-funders: Re-entering the social care story

  • Workplace culture: positive change for personal assistants

    Workplace culture: positive change for personal assistants

  • IMPACT Delivery Phase Launch Event

    IMPACT Delivery Phase Launch Event

  • What can IMPACT learn from the growth of Shared Lives?

    What can IMPACT learn from the growth of Shared Lives?

  • IMPACT moves to delivery phase

    IMPACT moves to delivery phase

  • Personal assistants – directing your own care and support

    Personal assistants – directing your own care and support

  • A Warm Welcome for our Funders

    A Warm Welcome for our Funders

  • No one gave me a job description

    No one gave me a job description

  • Facing Forward – Co-producing 2023!

    Facing Forward – Co-producing 2023!

  • Technology and Care in 2022

    Technology and Care in 2022

  • Direct Payments in 2022

    Direct Payments in 2022

  • Decision aids and Dementia in Wales

    Decision aids and Dementia in Wales

  • Asset-based approaches in 2022

    Asset-based approaches in 2022

Our Projects

Our projects fit within four delivery models. You can learn about each delivery model, the project topics we are working on, and the people involved. We will be sharing our discoveries and findings as each project comes to a close.