Our Director's Update for July is live! 🎉 This month's update reflects on our Fifth Anniversary Showcase, which brought together colleagues, sector leaders, care practitioners and people with lived experience from across the four nations! 🎂 Click to read 👉 impact.bham.ac.uk/2026/07/09/c...

For the past 2 years, people across Scotland in social care have worked together to rethink how we talk about adult social care. That work is now live - new guidance from the University of Stirling 👇 buff.ly/3PHLwSn We’re proud to have played a part. #SocialCareScotland #ReframingCare

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Adult social care touches all our lives, yet the public story we tell often focusses on crisis. That makes it harder to build the understanding and support Scotland needs for long-term change. …

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@impadultcare.bsky.social started in 2021 with just one part-time member of staff. 5 years on there's about 70 of us across all four nations of the UK. Happy birthday IMPACT!

We’d love for you to join us for this special milestone event! Hear from colleagues across the four nations on what's to come and reflect on the last 5 years... Details and registration link can be found within the poster See you there!

It's #CarersWeek2026, and this year's theme is 'Building Carer Communities.' 🫂 Visit 👉️ www.carersweek.org/ to find resources and information about building carer-friendly communities 💜 Explore IMPACT projects that support carer-friendly communities, on our website 👉 buff.ly/hiiOT3k #CarersWeek

Very warm cycling in - but so, so lucky to work at such a beautiful campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social @impadultcare.bsky.social

Great new role supporting more strategic approaches to co-production, based in Bristol - with People's Voices/WECIL (West of England Centre for Inclusive Living). 50% for one year, so also ideal for secondments from user-led/community organisations, practice and policy

Improving Adult Care Together (IMPACT)@impadultcare.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Exciting opportunity to join our IMPACT team! 🚀 ✅️ IMPACT Facilitator ✅️ part-time (50%) ✅️ fixed-term (12 months) ✅️ starts Sept 2026 ✅️ building a more strategic approach to co-production alongside people who have a learning disability ✅️ hosted by WECIL in Bristol ⏰ closes 9 June 👉 buff.ly/NVPxiBm

SAVE THE DATE - IMPACT turns 5! Join us in Birmingham City Centre on 6 July to celebrate 5 years of achievements! Expect reflections, future plans, networking and a rooftop BBQ - 13:00–16:30. Registration essential -

Fill | Registration form: IMPACT's 5th Anniversary Showcase - 6th July 2026, thestudio

Please sign up using the form below and we will send over further details

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Really looking forward to sharing and testing what we're learning around how to implement evidence in adult social care practice with colleagues from the University of Sheffield's Centre for Care/CIRCLE and partners

Our Director's Update for April is live! 🎉 Find out what we got up to last month, as IMPACT welcomed international colleagues from around the globe to Birmingham for the International Conference on Integrated Care 2026 🌍 Click to read 👉 impact.bham.ac.uk/2026/04/30/d... #DirectorsUpdate #ICIC26

Earlier this week, fifteen health professionals, carers, third-sector workers and people living with long-term conditions, came together to discuss the idea: What do we mean when we say, ‘ageing well?’ 🤔 Learn about their findings! 👉 impact.bham.ac.uk/2026/04/29/a...

Our vacancies for 2026-27 Demonstrator and Facilitator projects are closed. Thank you to everyone who applied. Even though applications are closed, there are still ways that you can support IMPACT! Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to hear how to get involved! 👉 impact.bham.ac.uk/contact-us-2/

Our work on recruiting more men has been featured in Changing the World Together by United for All Ages 🌍 For #GIWC26, the work is one of 26 ideas for a better world, challenging stereotypes by engaging young people in conversations about careers in social care 🗣️ Find out more 👉 buff.ly/AY6ddhO

Challenging young people’s misconceptions around working in adult social care

IMPACT delivered an assembly to young people about Adult Social Care and the work involved to support recruitment within the sector.

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Especially since our first @impadultcare.bsky.social 'Demonstrator' was with @vivensa.bsky.social and partners in Antrim, focused on strengths-based/community-led approaches to support for older people

Jon Glasby@jonglasby.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Really enjoyed sharing @impadultcare.bsky.social's approach to implementing evidence in adult social care and getting evidence used in practice - thanks for the invite!

Really enjoyed sharing @impadultcare.bsky.social's approach to implementing evidence in adult social care and getting evidence used in practice - thanks for the invite!

Vivensa Foundation@vivensa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our Annual Symposium is underway! The sun is shining over London and our CEO Katy Saunders has just opened the event focusing on the importance of two of our six values - collaboration and inclusion. #EvidenceIntoPractice #VivensaSymposium2026 #FundingForAgeingWell

This month, we helped to welcome over 1,000 people from 55 countries to Birmingham for #ICIC26 🌍 We shaped the themes, programme & several IMPACT colleagues shared their work from across the four nations 🎉 Find out more about the event in the next IMPACT Director’s Update 🎤

If you’re leading a change project in your team, locality, organisation or partnership, join our change and improvement community of practice. Register to join the next session: 🔍️ Share challenges, solutions and resources 📅 28 April, 10-11:30 💻️ MS Teams ✅️ buff.ly/pTRxxGi

One of the key outputs from our 2024-25 Demonstrator project on social work with people aged 65+ was a co-production case study and roadmap 🚗 It shares how the project was set up, co-produced and developed Find out more about the approach in this project here 👉️ impact.bham.ac.uk/delivery-mod...

“Try and believe in yourself… think of ability not disability.” At the end of our transitions from children to adult services project with Pembrokeshire County Council, we co-produced a short film with young people and their families. Watch the film here 👉️ youtu.be/3RXAA-DITcM

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From Aberdeen to Frome, we're recruiting Demonstrators and Facilitators right across the four nations 👉️ Take a look at the 24 vacancies, open until Monday 13 April: buff.ly/NVPxiBm

ONE WEEK TO GO! Our Demonstrator and Facilitator vacancies close in just one week, so now is the perfect time to get your applications in. Find out more about locations, topics and host organisations, and apply, here: buff.ly/NVPxiBm

From Ballymena to Wellingborough, we're recruiting Demonstrators and Facilitators right across the four nations! 📍 Take a look at the 24 vacancies, open until Monday 13 April 👇 impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/v...

We're currently recruiting for IMPACT Demonstrators and Facilitators to join us for 2026/27. Watch the video below to learn more about our Facilitator delivery model 👇 Then click the link to find out more about our vacancies and apply 👉https://impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/vacancies/

We are officially on Facebook! 🎉 If you want to see the heart of IMPACT - including our co-production sessions, projects across the UK, and how evidence-based social care works - come and say hello and be a part of our growing community! 👋 Give us a follow by clicking the link in the comments 👇

Last week, we brought together colleagues from across the UK to Cardiff for IMPACT’s 2026 Away Day. A creative, collaborative day of zine-making, myth-busting and our “country walk,” reflecting on how we put evidence into practice in adult social care. Thanks to everyone who joined!

24 new roles with IMPACT (the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care) - based in lots of different locations across the four nations, from Derry to Aberdeen and from Powys to Bristol (and many more)

Improving Adult Care Together (IMPACT)@impadultcare.bsky.social · 5mo ago

From Ballymena to Wellingborough, we're recruiting Demonstrators and Facilitators right across the four nations! 📍 Take a look at the 24 vacancies, open until Monday 13 April 👇 impact.bham.ac.uk/our-people/v...

Are you interested in coordinating an IMPACT Network? We're looking for Network coordinators in specific UK countries across a variety of topics Find out more and how to join us here: buff.ly/v7zqP32 Applications close on 30/03/26.

In December, we hosted our annual "All Wales" event. This time, the day focused on IMPACT projects which emphasise the values of voice, choice and control for people with learning disabilities. Find out more about the day here: buff.ly/OQRtL04

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