Welcome to our group!
Our focus is on working together to improve social care for the benefit of everyone and anyone who shares this passion is welcome to join us. We formed in January 2021 and meet monthly. We’ve also created some smaller subgroups to dive deeper into specific areas.
We are an action based group and we don’t want to reinvent any wheels, so we are always looking to join forces with others who are like-minded.
Morten Mathiesen (Chief Marketing Officer, Sekoia) Co-Chair of Social Care Innovators
Explore Our Subgroups
Chaired by Dr Caroline Green . We are currently exploring a charter based on one developed in Germany. We’re keen to share a Human Rights Personality Test designed by our chair.
Chaired by Adam Purnell and James McLoughlin – we are focusing on promoting social care and created the Green Heart for Social Care campaign. We ran a survey around public perceptions, more details here and one of our members (Jenni Mack) has written a children’s book ‘When I grow up I want to be a Carer’.
Chaired by Caroline Bartle and Paul Featherstone. We are focusing on the Care Certificate, qualifications, workforce wellbeing and the school curriculum. We recently ran a survey to find out how frontline staff feel about the Care Certificate, and will be sharing the results shortly.
Chaired by Jenni Mack and Mark Topps. We are focusing on different roles in social care, funding and an alternative inspection framework.
Chaired by Charles Armitage and Morten Mathiesen. We are focusing on promoting digital skills in the sector, specifically for leaders and managers. We have a live survey to help us define what it is we’re trying to build and how we can best suit the sector’s needs. Please do share.
Chaired by Dr Kellyn Lee. We are the newest formed subgroup and are exploring how to make research more accessible and impactful in social care.
Social Care Innovators
Our Social Care Innovators SIG is one of many special interest groups. If you are interested and would like more information in this group or others, please get in touch.
Upcoming Meetings
Whole Group Meeting
Thursday 11th November 10am
Subgroup Meetings
- Research – chaired by Dr Kellyn Lee
- Next meeting is 8th Oct 10am-11am
- Digital & Technology – chaired by Charles Armitage and Morten Mathiesen
- Next meeting is on 8th Oct 1pm-2pm
- People Plan – chaired by Jasmeet Rai, Palvi Dodhia and Joan Bothma
- Next meeting is on 19thOct 10am-11am
- Workforce – chaired by Caroline Bartle
- Next meeting is on 4th November 1pm-2pm
- Recruitment
- Next meeting is 5th November 10am-11am
- Issues care providers face – chaired by Jenni Mack and Mark Topps
- Next meeting TBC
- Public image of social care – chaired by Adam Purnell and James McLoughlin
- Next meeting TBC
- Power & Rights – chaired by Dr Caroline Green
- Next meeting TBC
