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Co-production Week: will it catch on? What about the ukulele?

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When the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) ran the first ever National Co-production Week last year they had no idea if the concept would gather momentum, recalls Tina Coldham, SCIE’s Co-production Network chair… With great anxiety we began feverishly …

Workshop in progress: asset-mapping and why it can help build communities

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'A workshop on asset-mapping’ wasn’t the snappiest title, confesses Pamela Holmes, Practice Development Manager at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). ‘However, the event saw so much energy, information and engagement that it put a spring in the step of the …

New Health Foundation resource breaks down health and social care funding

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We don't often post straight news stories or announcements on the Social Care News blog, but we will make the exception when we come across something useful and interesting. Over to the Health Foundation and their launch of a new …

Avoiding the cliff edge: making transitions work

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What do parents of young people living with disabilities – and also cognitive and mental health conditions - mean when they refer, sometimes fearfully, to 'the cliff edge'? Ewan King, Director of Business Development and Delivery at the Social Care Institute for …