Decluttering the homes of people with hoarding behaviours: Local authority commissioning, professional practices, and user experiences Principal investigators: Jennifer Owen, Jill Manthorpe. Investigating the role of professional decluttering services. Project status: Ongoing
Developing a question to identify gambling harms to individuals or affected others and piloting it in three local authorities Principal investigators: Caroline Norrie. We will test a question that we hope will enable people identified as affected by gambling harms to help to get the support they need. Project status: Ongoing
Developing the role of Dementia Champions in the homecare sector Principal investigators: Monica Leverton. Defining, refining and evolving the role of Dementia Champions in homecare. Project status: Ongoing
Development, evaluation and provision of an intervention for primary and community NHS staff to help carers and homecare workers supporting people living at home with dementia with their continence (DemCon) Continence self-management guidance for people living with dementia, their carers and homecare workers. Project status: Ongoing
Employing Personal Assistants during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for social care practice Principal investigators: Kritika Samsi. What happened to people employing their own care workers or Personal Assistants (PAs) during the Coronavirus pandemic? Project status: Ongoing
Evaluation of the implementation of the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard Principal investigators: Kritika Samsi. We were commissioned by the DHSC to conduct an early process evaluation of the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard implementation. Project status: Ongoing
Evaluation of the Out-of-Hospital Care Models programme for people experiencing homelessness Principal investigators: Michelle Cornes. Capturing learning from test sites for the programme and evidencing outcomes that are being achieved (2021–2023) Project status: Ongoing
Evidencing the social work role within responses to multiple exclusion homelessness Principal investigators: Jess Harris. This short project builds on Unit work on homelessness and self-neglect (2022–2023) Project status: Ongoing
Examining mental capacity approaches to multiple exclusion homelessness Principal investigators: Stephen Martineau. This short project builds on Unit work on homelessness and self-neglect (2022–2023) Project status: Ongoing
Examining the introduction of the Nursing Associate role in health and social care Principal investigators: Ian Kessler, Jo Moriarty. Research into the introduction of the Nursing Associate role and the extent to which the role has achieved policy aims. Project status: Ongoing