Today, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched a new best practice resource for the adult social care workforce: ‘Tackling inequalities in care for people with learning disabilities and autistic people’. SCIE established the SCIE Fliers, a group of people with lived experience of learning disabilities and autism, and worked with them as part of this project to understand their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and draw out lessons and opportunities for learning. The guida

Personalisation means putting the individual at the centre of everything you do in the care home. Person-centred care focuses on their history and strengths, their hopes and ambitions. #SeeThePerson We’ve updated a tool to help you achieve this in your care homes and have a conversation with staff, residents, and managers about what needs to change 👉 https://www.scie.org.uk/person-centred-care/improving-personalisation-in-care-homes | Social Care Institute for Excellence

Co-production with people with lived experience of social care and health underpins and informs everything that SCIE and TLAP do. Watch this video of Kevin Minier, Co-Production Network Member at SCIE, to learn more about how we co-produced #CoProWeek2025📷. #InnovationThroughCoProduction | Social Care Institute for Excellence

‘We do need to innovate in how we provide social care.’ Kathryn Smith OBE, Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), recently appeared on Westminster Watch to discuss the current challenges facing the social care system and the solutions required. To watch the full interview, please see: https://youtu.be/zG7DhNcohnI?si=8Go_mz8iml0P9Bed #SocialCare #SocialCareUK #SCIE | Social Care Institute for Excellence

Innovation through co-production offers an opportunity to transform social care and health provision to a model that offers people real choice and control. In this video, Sandra Rennie, a member of SCIE’s Co-production Steering Group, shares an example of co-produced innovation that is leading to more personalised care📷. #CoProWeek2025 #InnovationThroughCoProduction | Social Care Institute for Excellence