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NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

The Policy Institute

COVID-19 studies

Among the early Unit considerations of the pandemic were those by Mary Baginsky examining its effect on child protection. With Emily Thomas, she has also led an NIHR School for Social Care Research study on the Coronavirus Act 2020 and social care. Again focusing on social care, Caroline Norrie and Kritika Samsi led studies assessing the impact on specific workforces in this sector. Jill Manthorpe was co-investigator on the major Ulster-led Health and Social Care Workforce Research Study.

Other pandemic-related work involving Unit researchers

A local lens on children’s social care: the London Borough of Lewisham’s responses to Covid-19 and its legacy (May 2023)
Experiences of adult social work addressing self-neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic (April 2022)
Responding to Covid-19: an analysis of position statements of gerontological societies worldwide (April 2022)
Day centres for homeless people in South London: Early learning points from operating during the first COVID-19 lockdown in England (Nov 2021)
International policy responses and early management of threats posed by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to social care (Sept 2020)
Unit submission to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee (Sept 2020)
Helping day centres to 'unlock lockdown' (July 2020)
Easements to the Care Act: A briefing for homelessness providers and practitioners (April 2020)
COVID-19 and the care sector (BBC Radio 4, April 2020)

Coronavirus Act 2020

2 June 2023

Latest article from Unit's easements study

Why did some local authorities choose not to use easements to the Care Act 2014?

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