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Changes of occupations among care workers in England: An analysis of two national surveys

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Bo Hu and Raphael Wittenberg

April 2026

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Identifying Typologies of Care Needs Among Older Social Care Users in England: A Latent Class Analysis Using Administrative Data

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Javiera Cartagena-Farias, Jose Luis Fernandez, Sanna Read, Francesco D’Amico, Tom Snell

April 2026

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Key Transitions for Adults with a Learning Disability: Rapid Review

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James Caiels, Madeline Naick, Elizabeth Welch and Karen Jones

December 2025

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The Availability and Supply of Short-Term Care Beds in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Mechanism to Ensure Timely Transfers Out of Hospital for Older Patients in England

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Madeline Naick and Karen Jones

October 2025

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Unpaid care for parents: a survey of attitudes

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Amritpal Rehill and Raphael Wittenberg

August 2025

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Evaluating gender bias in large language models in long-term care

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Sam Rickman

August 2025

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Revision of the Relative Need Formulae for Adult Social Care

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Hansel Teo, Florin Vadean and Julien Forder

June 2025

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Reforming the funding of long-term care for older people: costs and distributional impacts of planned changes in England

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Bo Hu, Ruth Hancock, Raphael Wittenberg, Derek King, Marcello Morciano

May 2025

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Reaching consensus on outcomes for evaluating strengths-based approaches in adult social care and social work: A Delphi study conducted in England

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Barbora Silarova, James Caiels, Alisoun Milne, Julie Beadle-Brown

April 2025

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Understanding patterns of loneliness in older long-term care users using natural language processing with free text case notes

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Sam Rickman, Jose Luis Fernandez, Juliette Malley

April 2025

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Evaluating gender bias in Large Language Models in long-term care

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Sam Rickman

March 2025

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Projections of Adult Social Care Demand and Expenditure in England, 2022 to 2042

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Bo Hu, Ruth Hancock, Raphael Wittenberg, Joaquín Mayorga Camus, Julia Pauschardt, Christy Coulson

February 2025

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Loneliness as a risk factor for time to care home entry for older adults receiving community care

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Sam Rickman, Jose Luis Fernandez, Juliette Malley

February 2025

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Improving social care outcomes: Do staff employment conditions make a difference? A quantitative analysis using secondary data from England

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Stephen Allan, Florin Vadean and Olena Nizalova

December 2024

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Recent Trends in Disability, Marital Status, Household Composition, Homeownership, and Education among Older People

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Ruth Hancock, Bo Hu and Raphael Wittenberg

September 2024

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“I never planned for it”- Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents

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Chiara De Poli, Raphael Wittenberg, Amritpal Rehill, Madeleine Stevens, Nicola Brimblecombe

April 2024

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Wages and labour supply in the adult social care sector

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Florin Vadean, Stephen Allan and Hansel Teo

April 2024

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Drivers of home care agency closure: evidence from England

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Stephen Allan

March 2024

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Understanding policy amenable risk factors: alcohol consumption and long-term care use among people over 65 years old

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Gintare Malisauskaite, Olena Nizalova, Katerina Gousia, Hansel Teo, Julien Forder

March 2024

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The impact of formal care provision on informal care receipt for people over 75 in England

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Eirini-Christina Saloniki, Olena Nizalova, Gintare Malisauskaite, Julien Forder

February 2024

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The economic cost of unpaid care to the public finances: Inequalities in welfare benefits, forgone earnings-related tax revenue, and health service utilisation

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Javiera Cartagena-Farias and Nicola Brimblecombe

December 2023

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Strengths-based approaches – perspectives from practitioners

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James Caiels, Barbora Silarova, Alisoun J Milne, Julie Beadle-Brown

August 2023

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Labour market competition and wages in adult social care

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Florin Vadean and Stephen Allan

June 2023

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The relationships between informal and formal social care for older people in England: A comparison before and after the Care Act 2014

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Jae Yeon Lyu, Bo Hu, Raphael Wittenberg, Derek King

June 2023

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Revisiting the economic case for social care spending: informal care

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Olena Nizalova and Julien Forder

April 2023

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The economic determinants of home care provider quality

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Stephen Allan, Florin Vadean

March 2023

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Inequalities in unpaid carer’s health, employment status and social isolation

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Nicola Brimblecombe, Javiera Cartagena Farias

November 2022

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Review of existing sources of evidence about people with learning disability

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Derek King, Chris Hatton, Raphael Wittenberg, Jose Luis Fernandez

September 2022

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Relative need formula allocation of additional funding to local authorities to meet social care charging reforms (slide pack)

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Julien Forder, Florin Vadean, Hansel Teo

August 2022

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Relative need formula allocation of additional funding to local authorities to meet social care charging reforms: Considering the extension to the financial means test and need for additional assessments

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Julien Forder, Florin Vadean, Hansel Teo

August 2022

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Projections of dependency and associated social care expenditure for the older population in England to 2038: effect of varying disability progression

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Andrew Kingston, Raphael Wittenberg, Bo Hu, Carol Jagger

July 2022

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Perspectives on strengths-based approaches: social workers, commissioners and managers

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James Caiels, Barbora Silarova, Alisoun Milne, Julie Beadle-Brown

July 2022

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Reforming the funding of adult social care: Costs and impacts of the government’s proposal

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Ruth Hancock, Bo Hu, Raphael Wittenberg, Derek King, Marcello Morciano on behalf of the CASPeR team

June 2022

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Thinking about caring for older relatives in the future: a qualitative exploration

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Madeleine Stevens, Nicola Brimblecombe, Camille Bou and Raphael Wittenberg

April 2022

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Strengths-based approaches in social work and social care: reviewing the evidence

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James Caiels, Alisoun Milne, Julie Beadle-Brown

December 2021

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Need and unmet need among older people in the community

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Amritpal Rehill, Tom Snell, Jose-Luis Fernandez, Raphael Wittenberg

December 2021

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Funding and resource decision-making for adult social care – the role of cost-effectiveness analysis

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Julien Forder, Daniel Roland

December 2021

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The association between staff retention and English care home quality

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Stephen Allan, Florin Vadean

October 2021

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Measuring social care quality: key concepts and applications

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Jose-Luis Fernandez, Juliette Malley, Valentina Zigante, Divya Srivastava

September 2021

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Home care market dynamics in England

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Stephen Allan

September 2021

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Home care market dynamics in England (slide pack)

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Stephen Allan

May 2021

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Geographical variation in COVID-19 mortality and its relationship to social care provision in England

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Julien Forder, Stephen Allan, Florin Vadean and Daniel Roland

January 2021

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The effects of minimum wage policy on the long‐term care sector in England

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Florin Vandean, Stephen Allan

October 2020

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