IMPACT stands for ‘IMProving Adult Care Together’. It is a new £15 million UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Health Foundation.  It will be led by Professor Jon Glasby at the University of Birmingham, with a Leadership Team of 12 other academic, policy and practice partners, and a broader consortium of key stakeholders from across the sector and across the four nations of the UK.

IMPACT will be an ‘implementation centre’, drawing on knowledge gained from different types of research, the lived experience of people using services and their carers, and the practice wisdom of social care staff. It will work across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to make sure that it is embedded in and sensitive to the very different policy contexts in the four nations, as well as being able to share learning across the whole of the UK. 

We have provided a briefing for the IMPACT Centre which summarises its aims, work programme and possible delivery models. The briefing may be downloaded below, together with an easy read version.

• Download Improving Adult Care Together (IMPACT). Easy Read (PDF)
• Download Gwella Gofal Oedolion Gyda’n Gilydd (IMPACT). Hawdd i’w Ddarllen (PDF)
• Download the IMPACT Briefing document (PDF)

How to get involved – survey

Thanks to all who completed our recent survey, to establish your thoughts on some of the most important areas of Adult Social Care – we are pleased to share we received over 2000 responses and will be sharing the results via our comms and updates over the coming weeks. If you would like to be kept up to date with what’s happening with this, and our work at IMPACT, alongside how you can get involved, please do sign up for our newsletter.