This #AutismAcceptanceMonth, we're proud to celebrate our Disability and Neurodiversity Colleague Inclusion Network 🫂
Our #ColleagueInclusion networks create safe, welcoming spaces where everyone can belong, connect, and find community🌟
#Neurodiversity #BelongingAtWork
Last week, we welcomed colleagues from the DHSC and @ncfcareforum.bsky.social to our supported living service in Leeds.
Our visitors spoke directly with the people we support, hearing first‑hand about their experiences of the social care system 🙌
🗞️ bit.ly/dhsc-colleag...
Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, we were proud to welcome Scottish Parliamentary Candidate Alexander Burnett and Harriet Cross MP to our award-winning Inspire…By service in Huntly on Friday!🏴🙌
Our Inspire...By services 👉 bit.ly/InspireBySer...
It’s London Marathon Month!👟🏅
We’re incredibly proud to celebrate our Community Integrated Care London Marathon team - especially our amazing colleagues, Kurtis, Luke and Nat!
Representing our charity with pride and purpose, we’re excited to reveal our 2026 runners’ vests… and they look fantastic!
Autism infinity symbol being held up by hands. Text reads 'Marking World Autism Acceptance Month 2026'.
It's Autism Acceptance Week, and for our charity, this isn’t just a date in the calendar… it’s central to who we are.
Throughout April, we’ll be shining a light on #AutismAcceptance month, sharing stories and insights that highlight the importance of #AutismAwareness and meaningful inclusion🙌
We’re incredibly proud to have Jamie Jones-Buchanan MBE - seven-time Super League Grand Final winner and our dedicated charity Ambassador - taking on the #LondonMarathon for Community Integrated Care! 🏃♂️
Read the full story 🗞️ lnkd.in/eBVzuvaf
📺We were proud to see our charity and people we support featured on ITV's Granada Reports, celebrating World Down Syndrome Day alongside the amazing Warrington Wolves team! 💙💛
Thank you to everyone who joined in with the celebrations, creating lasting memories for the people we support 🙌
Today, they’ll form a guard of honour at the Warrington Wolves vs Castleford Tigers R.L.F.C Super League fixture - proudly leading their heroes onto the pitch to celebrate World Down's Syndrome Day!👏
🌍Happy World Down's Syndrome Day!
People we support in Warrington were recently welcomed as VIP guests at a Warrington Wolves team run, where players trained in odd socks to mark this global celebration 🧦🏉
One week ago, we launched our fifth #UnfairToCare report & we’re proud to see the impact it’s making in the sector 💪
Collaboration is key to driving change - we’re incredibly grateful to work alongside dedicated professionals who helped make this year’s report a reality 🙌
🌐 www.unfairtocare.co.uk
Jacaranda colleagues, with Community Integrated Care Partnerships manager, and person supported by our charity. The Jacaranda Records shop is behind them.
Community Integrated Care partnerships manager is stood with person we support, and Jacaranda Managing Director, outside the store.
Support worker and person we support shopping for records in the store.
We’re proud to launch JaCAREanda, an inspiring new partnership with Jacaranda Liverpool to change lives through the power of music🎶🙌
Together, we’ll unlock incredible new opportunities for the people we support - from workshops to music therapy.
Read about the exciting partnership: bit.ly/4uyXcfM
Tauseef’s hopeful words show what fair pay and fair recognition for Support Workers can make possible 🙌
Because valuing Support Workers means valuing independence, opportunity and the chance for people to live the lives they choose.
Learn more about #UnfairToCare
🔗 UnfairToCare.co.uk
📢 Will you join the call for immediate action to deliver fair pay for social care support workers?
👉Share the campaign and get involved at www.unfairtocare.co.uk
Our fifth #UnfairToCare report sets out a clear path forward. Share it with your network and help make the case for change. 👉 www.unfairtocare.co.uk
Text reads: 'Low pay continued to fuel workforce instability, contributing to. high turnover (28.5%) which in turn impacts continuity and quality of care. Across the whole adult social care workforce, the overall vacancy rate was &%. Three times higher than the uk-wide job vacancy rate of 2.3%'.
'Care providers saw an average 9% rise in operating costs in 2025/26 due to...employer national insurance: 13.8% to 15%. National living wage: 6.7% to £12.21'.
The challenges facing social care aren't new - but the data makes them impossible to ignore.
🔁 28.5% staff turnover
📉 Vacancy rates 3× the UK average
💷 Care providers facing a 9% rise in operating costs - driven by National Insurance and National Living Wage increases.
Text highlighting unfair pay for frontline adult social support workers compared to NHS Band 3 workers in 2026. 'Equivalent roles. Unfair pay. Korn Ferry analysis shows that frontline adult social support worker roles match an NHS Band 3 worker'.
Text reads 'A significant 28.6% pay gap remained between social care support workers and their Band 3 NHS counterparts in their take-home pay'.
Five years ago, we published our first #UnfairToCare report. The pay gap between social care & the NHS stood at 39%.
📉 Today, it's 28.6% - still a £7,048 difference for workers doing equivalent roles. The progress matters but narrowing the gap is not the same as closing it.
👉 www.unfairtocare.co.uk
Traffic light with heart-shaped signals reading Stop, Wait, and Go illustrating stages of change for fair pay in care sector. Text reads ' Signs of Change. The road to fair pay is clearer than ever - so can we go the distance?'
Text reads: Social care can't wait until 2028. Our call to government: Fund interim pay uplifts in 2026/27 and 2027/28 to... Narrow the gap, stabilise the workforce & build momentum toward a fair pay agreement
🚦It's time for the green light on fair pay.
Today we publish the fifth edition of our #UnfairToCare report, 'Signs of Change'.
Social care support workers still take home £7,048 less per year than equivalent NHS colleagues - a gap virtually unchanged since last year...
👉 www.unfairtocare.co.uk
Last week, our Managing Director for Complex Care, Carly Jarvis, attended the Complex Care Forum in Cirencester.
The event brought together providers and sector specialists from across the UK for a day of learning, collaboration and innovation 🤝
See what Carly had to say about the Forum👇
A blue graphic reads: “Baroness Casey has said what many of us have long known: adult social care is underfunded, undervalued, and too often overlooked in national policy. The structural challenges she described mean too many people still face barriers to accessing the right care and support at the right time, in a system that drives fragmentation and short-term decision making, creating instability for those who rely on support."
A blue graphic reads: "“As the Commission’s work develops, it will be vital that this honesty is matched by practical reform; sustainable funding, better commissioning, and proper recognition for the workforce. Change must work for people with learning disabilities and autistic people, as well as older people, and be shaped by their lives, aspirations, and rights."
Last week, Baroness Louise Casey spoke at the Nuffield Trust Summit, sharing her early reflections on the state of adult social care in her role as Chair of the Casey Commission.
Our CEO, Jim Kane, shares his thoughts on her remarks: www.communityintegratedcare.co.uk/news/our-res...
Group of colleagues and people supported, stood outside with Amanda MP, smiling at the camera.
Today we welcomed @amandamartinmp.bsky.social MP for Portsmouth North, to our Temple Court service.
Thank you to Amanda for taking the time to meet with our colleagues and people we support, to see the vital role that services like Temple Court play in helping people live independently👏
We were proud to welcome SG Enable, Singapore’s national disability and inclusion agency, to our Westminster service last week 🇸🇬🤝🇬🇧
As part of their work to strengthen disability support in Singapore, the team visited to explore our approaches to person‑centred care and high quality support🙌
Three people covered in colourful powder, standing outdoors.
erson wearing a white t-shirt splattered with bright blue and pink coloured powder, standing outdoors.
Person wearing a white t-shirt covered in vibrant green, pink, and yellow powder.
Hiten and Pramod from our supported living service in Leicester have had a fantastic time celebrating #Holi in their garden today, throwing vibrant gulal in their favourite colours, covering their T-shirts! ☀️
We wish everyone celebrating, a Happy Holi🎉
Jamie, Carla and Tiahnna sat together in a large conference room, smiling to camera. On a screen in the background there is a Learning Disability England conference banner.
Elle, Matt and Sophie are in front of a conference stall with a What To Do banner and marketing materials.
We’re excited to be at the @learningdiseng.bsky.social Conference in Birmingham today 🎉
Our Quality Advisors, Jamie and Tiahnna, are delighted to be representing our charity, alongside our Participation Specialist, Carla!
Elle, Matt & Sophie are also here showcasing What-To-Do.co.uk 👋
Today, we’re proud to celebrate a decade of impact in Rugby Football League as @therfl.bsky.social award-winning official Social Care partner 🏉🎉
Read how our 10‑year partnership is changing the game -
🔗 bit.ly/477q6JK
A large group of people stand outside two adjoining bungalows, smiling and cheering to camera.
A group of six people stand in front of a doorway draped with colourful bunting. Richard, a person supported by our charity, stands in the centre with a pair of scissors. He’s cutting a yellow ribbon to official mark the opening of Birleywood.
A large cake reads ‘Welcome to Birleywood Celebration’ and has a picture of the bungalows on it.
Blue display boards on a table show pictures of the service through all different stages of development. There are also promotional leaflets and flyers on the table.
This afternoon, we celebrated the opening of our new Birleywood Supported Living service in Skelmersdale! 🏡
Richard, who has just moved in, did the honours of cutting the ribbon, alongside our colleagues, partners and Councillor Graham Dalton, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care 👏🎉
Six people stand in front of a Great British Care Awards backdrop, smiling to camera. Terry, a person supported by the charity, stands in the middle holding a Highly Commended certificate for What ToDo.
Three colleagues from Griffin Lodge are stood in front of the awards backdrop, smiling and holding their Highly Commended certificate.
Terry, a person we support, is smiling to camera. He’s holding a Highly Commended certificate for What To Do.
What an amazing evening at the Great British Care Awards!
We were proud to receive two Highly Commended recognitions:
🌟 Griffin Lodge for Care Team of the Year
🌟 What To Do for Care Innovator
We’re so proud of all our finalists - you’re all winners in our eyes! ✨🎉
Tonight we’re excited to be at the Great British Care Awards National Finals in Birmingham! 🎉
Join our Head of Operations for Complex Care, Nadia Khan, in wishing our teams good luck!✨
🏃♂️16 miles, one match ball!🏉
Our London Marathon runners Kurtis and Anthony took on a special 16‑mile training run - delivering the Super League match ball from Wigan Warriors Brick Community Stadium to Leigh Sports Village and back!👏
Read more about our London Marathon runners:
📰 bit.ly/4sfoSEz
This #LGBTHistoryMonth, hear from Kate, a member of our LGBTQ+ Colleague Inclusion Network, as she highlights Alan Turing, his persecution, and why remembering LGBTQ+ history remains so important
Our LGBT+ History Month info hub: bit.ly/49O6nkb
Our Technology Enabled Care🧑💻
bit.ly/4aUNDjp
As a valued member of the Care Workers’ Charity Advisory Board and one of our amazing Support Workers, Amandajayne joined representatives across #SocialCare at a Royal Reception in Windsor Castle, celebrating the incredible impact of care workers across the UK👏
📰 Read the full story: bit.ly/4rVrvLl
