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NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

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NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce

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25 September 2025

National Workload Action Group reports published

Mary Baginsky contributed to new reports on social worker workload

Houses of Parliament

24 September 2025

House of Commons Education Select Committee cites Unit work

The Committee has published: 'Solving the SEND Crisis'

Jess Harris presenting findings in Utrecht

23 September 2025

Unit work presented in Utrecht

Jess Harris and Michelle Cornes were at the European Research Conference on Homelessness

14 Oct

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The role of Social Work in supporting people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness

14 October 2025

Ellie Atkins

Animations at the Unit

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Melbourne House

3 September 2025

Connecting with the Unit

The Unit is based at Melbourne House

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9 April 2025

King's co-leads £5m investment into social care workforce research

New research partnership: ‘Care Work’ project

26 March 2024

The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce Programme of Work

The Policy Research Unit announces seven new studies commencing in 2024

What is the social care implementation resource

3 April 2025

New tool supports implementation research in social care

Unit researcher Antonina Semkina co-led development of new guide

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Informing policy debates on the health and social care workforce.

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Homecare workers in dementia palliative care