Beyond the slogan: the reality of building trauma-informed social care organisations Trauma has become a commonly used term societally and across the health and social care sectors. Georgina Chetwynd shares learning from a Research in Practice research project that explores what it means to be a trauma-informed organisation.

Today, we are at #NCASC where we will be discussing the reality of building trauma-informed organisations.

Georgina Chetwynd shares learning from a Research in Practice research project that explores what it means to be a trauma-informed organisation in a new blog. https://ow.ly/uQ9U50XyF9V

Enjoying the start of my first #NCASC - @clentonf.bsky.social demonstrating his usual way with words as he argues for storytelling to engage people with social care saying “stories move people, spreadsheets don’t”

We're looking forward to next week's #NCASC25 in Bournemouth! Come see us at Stand F12 to learn about how we're helping councils across England to drive fairer funding, smarter workflows & better outcomes for their adult social care & SEND services.

#NCASC #AdultSocialCare #SEND #LocalGovernment

My week consisted mostly of Children social care with a sprinkling of adults too.
#NCASC in Liverpool.
A couple Ministers of state, OFSTED top boss, loads of officers and of course lots of local councillors that all work hard to make people's lives better.
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A picture of our stand

A picture of an NCASC board

📅That’s it for Another Year📅

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to our workshops, our event with Agilisys, our lunchtime chats with Partners in Care and Health, and our exhibition stand to learn about #DigitalInnovation and #GenAI.

#SCIEAtNCASC #NCASC24 #NCASC

The river Merseyside and the Albert docks

Farewell, for now, Liverpool. One of the top, and best, cities in the world.
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Almost at rhe end of a really worthwhile #ncasc conference

An image of our banner

An image of various leaflets

An image of Stephen Kinnock MP’s speech

📅The second day of #NCASC is complete📅
We hope all those who attended enjoyed our first workshop. Join us tomorrow for our second: ‘Accelerating Reform Fund (ARF): How to enable scaling innovation in social care.’
Learn more here: www.scie.org.uk/ncasc/

#NCASC24 #SCIEAtNCASC

“As a sector, one of our many strengths is our resilience.”

At #NCASC this morning, Melanie Williams, President, ADASS; Anna Severwright, Co-convenor, Social Care Future; Vic Rayner, Chief Executive, National Care Forum; and Cllr David Fothergill, Chairman, LGA Community Wellbeing Board 1/3

Another valuable session at #NCASC talking about the positive but hard future for care with or without reform.

Day 2 at #NCASC and starting with a workshop on how to make the most of direct payments. Local authorities have largely been going backwards on direct payments in the last few years. Missing huge opportunity to help people live their best lives and save money

Our improvement director @pete62jackson.bsky.social would usually be at #NCASC today but is currently undergoing treatment for #tonguecancer. Colleagues have put together this fundraising drive for the charity Young Tongues. Donate at justgiving.com/page/helen-coombes-1730739013697

📅The first day of #NCASC is complete📅
Thank you to everyone who visited our Exhibition Stand and attended our lunchtime chats with Partners in Care and Health.
We thoroughly enjoyed connecting with colleagues from across the sector to discuss digital innovation and GenAI.

Together, SCIE and Agilisys are launching a partnership at #NCASC designed to help social care organisations embrace and adopt Generative Artificial Intelligence (#GenAI).

Listen to what our Chief Executive, Kathryn Smith, has to say about the partnership and why it is important in this video🎬

“Everything we do is about how we work in partnerships to improve social care.”

In this video, Claire Grindal, SCIE’s Head of Marketing and Communications, discusses why SCIE is at #NCASC and the potential benefits of #DigitalInnovation.

Come to our Exhibition Stand (F10) to learn more.

Having a good home is critical to improving social care outcomes. So too is having rich communities, relationships, networks, friendships. We need to think about all of this if we are going to do prevention properly #NCASC

A really interesting session at #NCASC led by social workers and unpaid carers. A lot of evidence about the need to spend far more time listening to care users and their families....

A slide outlining Think Local Act Personal guidance on coproduction and EDI

Thanks Think Local Act Personal for a thought provoking session on some tips to make coproduction more inclusive, diverse and equitable. If it’s not hard you aren’t doing it right. Great examples from the fab Lisa in Greenwich who are leading by example #NCASC

Who else is attending the National Children and Adult Services Conference #NCASC?

Our editors Kellie Doubtfire and Rik Clarke are looking forward to meeting with speakers, delegates and exhibitors to discuss how they can get involved with Social Work Today.

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And these are their local and national asks in response #careleavers #neurodiversity #ncasc

66% of those #careleavers surveyed by the Young People’s Benchmarking Forum have a diagnosis, or self-identify, as #neurodivergent #ncasc

And here is what young people said were #careleavers asks re support for #costofliving #NCASC

First #menti #mentimeter of the day at #NCASC - too right it’s the Young People’s Benchmarking Forum who are leading the way with collaborative tech. Highlighting significant adverse impact on #mentalhealth from
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The paradox about social care is the extraordinary number of hoops you have to jump through in order get support. There is nothing ordinary about that. The gloriously ordinary part comes later when you transform the requirements of a system into the hopes and aspirations of everyday life.
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Thrilled to join the #WorkforceStrategy discussion at #NCASC with @25DavidPearson, Beverley Tarka, Caroline Baria & myself. A strong, sustainable workforce is vital for high-quality, person-centred care. Let’s shape the future of care together! #FutureOfCare #SocialCareWorkforce @oonaghsmyth @1adass

‘We need to stop pushing problems on to others and work collaboratively’ - Andy Smith #NCASC this needs to be our motto across health/govt/VCSE & communities. We are wasting so much effort, time and money by not pooling resources and working together

#NCASC Andy Smith president of ADCS getting lots of applause during the opening speech.

‘Social care is about the thousands of relationships and connection that happens between people everyday’ it’s about hope, love an care - Melanie Williams opens #NCASC

First up at #NCASC hearing about the excellent work in Stockport to reimagine social care so that everyone can lead gloriously ordinary lives. Every council should be doing this

Really looking forward to #NCASC, learning lots about improving social care for care users and chatting about @healthwatchengland.bsky.social work on unmet need and hidden demand for social care.