Following the Providers Unite social care Day of Action earlier this year (that we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/providers-unite-announce-social-care-day-of-action) a documentary has now been released. Entitled ‘The Backbone of Care’, the documentary – which was filmed between February and July 2025 – includes footage from the Day of Action, alongside interviews and statistics. You can view…
Providers Unite, a grassroots coalition uniting community care and support providers across the UK to advocate for the social care sector, has announced Tuesday 25 February 2025 as a ‘Day of Action’. Providers Unite is described as, “A diverse and vital network of care providers, collectively serving over 1.2 million individuals and employing a dedicated…
Care Voices – A collaboration between The Care Workers’ Charity (The CWC) and Providers Unite – has been launched. Care Voices brings together care workers, people who draw on care and care providers in a national initiative designed to strengthen communication, community, and collective advocacy across the social and health care workforce. Care Voices is…
A grass roots campaign, ‘Care about Care’, has been launched by Providers Unite (who we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/?s=Providers+Unite). Care about Care is calling on the UK Government to reinvent how the social care system is viewed, supported and funded. The organisers of the campaign say: “We are campaigning to make politicians sit up and…
Toby Williamson describes his experience of the 19th UK Dementia Congress, held in Manchester in November 2025. Toby Williamson is editor of the Journal of Dementia Care (JDC). Reference: Williamson, T. (2026) ‘UK Dementia Congress 2025 – so many highlights’, Journal of Dementia Care, 34(1) pp. 12-13. The UK Dementia Congress in November 2025 was…...
This is a brief selection of the news and resources regularly posted and updated on our website.Reports by Beth Britton. Report ‘Hope for All Ages: Fifty ways to leave the world a better place by 2050’ published United for All Ages, a thinktank and social enterprise that brings younger and older people together to build…
UK Dementia Congress Programme Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Please note that session details may change from this published schedule.
This is a brief selection of the news and resources regularly posted and updated on our website. Reports by Beth Britton. Blueprint for proactive and preventative digital care services published ‘Unlocking the Power of Proactive and Preventative Care Services – A practical blueprint for planning, implementing and scaling up’ has been published by a new…...
Pasiecznik Parsons M, Williamson T (2025) Creative Dementia: Arts for Health and Wellbeing. Journal of Dementia Care 33(4) 14-18 In June 2025 Dementia Community and the Creative Dementia Arts Network staged a conference in Bristol exploring creative arts for dementia. Maria Pasiecznik Parsons and Toby Williamson describe the event, with some of their personal highlights…....
Lennox D (2023) Creating change for Young Onset Dementia support. Journal of Dementia Care 33(4) 22-23. Debby Lennox of Dementia Forward describes how the charity reinvented local support for younger people with dementia, pioneering a specialist, age-appropriate care and support model that could be shared nationally. Dementia Forward, a North Yorkshire charity, is entering the…...