Have your say on social care practice

Social care professionals have been invited to suggest practice issues for a new research project to focus on. The project is intended to provide workers with quick and easy access to academic research that could help them address key decisions in social care practice.

Set up by the NIHR School for Social Care Research – one of the leading funders into adult social care practice in England – the research in practice for adults (RiPfA) will address some of the challenges in bridging the gap between social care practitioners and academic social care researchers.

The research will initially focus on two topics: the Care and Support White Paper and long-term care/conditions.

The work aims to help adult social care practitioners obtain research evidence on the issues that are most important to them in these areas. So the project team is asking social care professionals to suggest practice issues for the project to explore under these topics.

The first cut-off point for responses is 25 September and the practice issues can be sent in any form (email, website comment, short video or audio file and so on). At the same time, people can register for the project’s first event on 19 October 2012 in London, when practitioners and researchers will prioritise the suggested issues and work through some of the research evidence (some travel bursaries are available).

Details at http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/socialcareevidenceinpractice and 020 7955 6238; submissions to [email protected].