Social Care Institute for Excellence

12/06/2026

SCIE is working with the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education to improve young people’s experiences as they move from children’s to adult social care, and we want to hear from you.

✅ Join our Young People’s Advisory Panel if you’ve recently experienced or are approaching the transition to adult social care
✅ Take part in our online workshop if you are a parent, carer, or family member who has lived experience of transitions (Fri 26 June, 10 AM until 12 PM)

Please email [email protected] to take part, and share this post with your networks to help us reach as many people as possible.

10/06/2026

There’s still time for you to have your say📣

Transitions from children’s social care to adult services can be complex. This survey explores what support, information, and approaches are working well, and where things need to change.

You can find it here: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/4O5-1R5T/scie-dhsc-transitions-survey

We are keen to hear from:
💙Professionals who work with young people moving into adult social care
💙Young people who are going through, or preparing for, this transition
💙Adults with lived experience of transitioning to adult social care from children’s services
💙Parents, carers, and family members of young people who are going through, preparing for, or have been through this transition

Your insights will help shape practical tools, training materials, and best practice guidance to improve transitions for young people and families.

work with young peopleyoung people who are going throughor preparing for this transitionadults with lived experienceparents, carers, and family members

09/06/2026

This week is Carers Week, an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK.

The theme this year is ‘Building Carer Friendly Communities’. Carer friendly communities are places, spaces, services, and community groups where unpaid carers are recognised, understood, and valued.

Creating carer friendly communities requires more than awareness, it requires practical change. The Department of Health and Social Care’s Accelerating Reform Fund (ARF) aimed to support innovation and scaling and kickstart a change in care and support for unpaid carers. SCIE supported the ARF by providing guidance, resources and expert advice to help local authorities design and implement effective reform projects. Since the formal conclusion of SCIE’s main support, a small number of local authorities have continued to receive targeted support.

Find out more about this work, and our wider work to support unpaid carers, by reading our Impact Report:https://www.scie.org.uk/app/uploads/2026/04/SCIE_Impact-Report_Mar-2026_digital-004_FINAL.pdf

And visit https://www.carersweek.org/ to find resources and information about how to get involved this week!

You’re amazing. Through us all coming together and sharing our support, we can help ensure our communities recognise, understand and value unpaid carers. Your name will soon appear on the Building Carer Friendly Communities wall, once our team has approved your entry.

08/06/2026

SCIE has today unveiled the full Co-production Week programme. Taking place from 29 June to 3 July 2026, this year's theme is ‘Care equity: who gets care?’

We will host a webinar or workshop each day to share learning and insights to help overcome inequities in access to care, its quality, and its outcomes, and to showcase innovative projects seeking to achieve fairer care.

The programme is designed to support organisations, practitioners, people with lived experience, and communities to come together, exchange ideas, and explore how co-production can shape more inclusive and responsive care.

To read the press release, please see: https://www.scie.org.uk/news/detail/who-gets-care-scie-unveils-co-production-week-programme/

To find out more and register for the events going on, please see: https://www.scie.org.uk/co-production/week/

A week-long celebration of the power of co-production, to design and develop better, and more equitable, ways of doing things in social care.

05/06/2026

Referrals to children and young people’s mental health services are at an all-time high.

In this blog, Ellie Haworth, Head of Social Care Transformation and Improvement at SCIE, reflects on what this means and what needs to happen next.

SCIE is in the midst of working with partners from across children’s and adults’ social care, young people, families, carers, and other stakeholders to think about a national set of practice principles and guidance for the transition from children’s to adults’ services.

04/06/2026

“Reform depends on making clear choices about entitlement, funding, and responsibility.”

There is no shortage of agreement about what social care should achieve. The challenge is translating this agreement into arrangements that are coherent, deliverable, and sustainable.

In this blog, Rt Hon. Prof. Paul Burstow, Chair of SCIE’s Board, explores the four questions that are central to this.

The challenge is not defining ambition. It is translating it into arrangements that are coherent, deliverable and sustainable.

03/06/2026

📣SCIE Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) reviewer training programme webinar

📅9 June 2026

⏰10 AM

Join us to talk about two of SCIE’s training options for professionals interested in becoming independent reviewers. The session sets out content, entry requirements, application process, and costs:

💡SAR Reviewers Training Programme. For experienced professionals who want to work as independent SAR reviewers, we are delivering the next annual training programme. It is planned to run from October 2026 until February 2027 (subject to interest).

💡Reviewers Short Development Course. For people from statutory and voluntary sectors who want to take initial steps towards becoming independent SAR reviewers, and want to understand more about the skills and knowledge they will need to develop.

Register for the webinar here👉🏼 https://scie.info/SAR-Webinar-Facebook

02/06/2026

“The need for a national conversation on the future of social care has never been greater.”

Today, 2 June 2026, The King's Fund has published, ‘‘No man’s land’: the experience of patients at the interface between health and social care’.

SCIE contributed our expertise to this long read.

Read our response, authored by Gerard Crofton-Martin, our Interim Chief Executive, on our website.

Today, 2 June 2026, The King’s Fund has published ‘‘No man’s land’: the experience of patients at the interface between health and social care’.

29/05/2026

SCIE is proud to be hosting the 11th annual Co-production Week from 29 June to 3 July 2026.

🎥In this video, Paula Sardinha, a member of the National Co-production Advisory Group (NCAG); Kevin Minier, a member of the SCIE Co-production Steering Group; and Caroline Waugh, a member of NCAG, outline what Co-production Week is, the theme of this year’s Co-production Week, and what you can expect.

SCIE will be sharing further details about key events, resources, and opportunities to get involved as Co-production Week 2026 approaches.

To stay up to date, please visit the SCIE website regularly🔗 https://scie.info/Co-production-Week-Video-Facebook

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28/05/2026

“The task now is not to restate the case for change, but to align the conditions under which change can be delivered.”

Adult social care in England is often described as a system. In practice, it is better understood as a set of arrangements that have evolved over time, without a single moment of design.

For many years, the need for reform has been widely recognised. In this blog, Paul Burstow, Chair of SCIE’s Board, explores why attempts have repeatedly stalled.

A short series on reform: The destination’s agreed. The route isn’t. Until we align costs, duties and delivery, reform will keep stalling.