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In 2024, IPC was delighted to engage with people working within social care in Wales from the global majority to explore the extent of structural racism.
Foundations have published the first in a series of new national Practice Guides that provide local authorities and partner organisations with evidence about ‘what works’ in Children’s Social Care. IPC was commissioned to undertake the research to help understand what can get in the way of evidence use in local authorities and how Practice Guides might help to overcome these.

IPC worked with Norfolk County Council for three years to evaluate their model of support for unpaid carers; the executive summary of our report is now available.

One in three parents at risk of having their babies removed from their care have learning disabilities or difficulties – often not identified until court.

Ten years after the Care Act was passed, with considerable hopes and expectations for a major change in approach and a greater emphasis on rights, IPC Visiting Research Fellow Dr Melanie Henwood considers what has been achieved for carers.

Good working relationships between commissioning and care provider organisations are crucial. In this briefing paper, we explore the importance of working relationships and trust by firstly revisiting a paper we wrote in 2009, Perspectives on Market Facilitation.

In this discussion paper we consider why policy makers and local partners should do more to support and encourage care providers, and the wider care provider sector, to take on a more proactive leadership role in relation to adult safeguarding.

Findings from a review undertaken at IPC distil the research evidence to explore ‘what good looks like’ in supporting people living with dementia. Understanding the evidence is essential if people’s quality of life is to be maximised.

This guide outlines why co-production is important and the benefits it can bring us, as well as describing case study examples of co-production across the South East of England.

This report for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care presents findings from the pilot evaluation of the Thriving Babies: Confident Parents (TBCP) programme, an early help initiative designed and delivered in multi-agency partnership.

This document summarises findings from the 3-year evaluation of the adoption support fund. The adoption support fund was established to meet the therapeutic needs of children who left care through adoption or a special guardianship order.

This report is part of our 3-year evaluation of the Support Fund (ASF) during 2018-2021. It provides findings from the final survey of families whose children received therapeutic support.

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