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In the media
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LSE: Dilemmas in social care to be tackled by new national research school
The FINANCIAL -- Urgent questions about how England should care for the 1.8 million adults in social care will start to get better answers from today with the opening of the School for Social Care Res...
It is a collaboration between five universities, led by Professor Martin Knapp at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) who is Director of the new school. The other universities involved are the University of Kent, King's College, London, Manchester University and the University of York. The school is funded by the Government's National Institute for Health Research.
finchannel.com, 10 May 2009
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New national social care research school, and about time too
Ivan Lewis has high hopes for NSSCR social care research, writes Mark Ivory
As a flick through the learned pages of the British Journal of Social Work will tell you, our universities are full of academics only too happy to talk to each other. Research funders have often asked them to strip out the jargon and address a wider audience in need of their wisdom, but with limited effect.
Now the government is raising the stakes: it has announced a National School for Social Care Research which will receive £15m over the next five years for research that can make a real impact on the frontline of practice. Or, at least, that's the idea.
Community Care, 9 July 2008
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Government reveals plans for social care research centre
Following the launch of a six-month debate on the future of social care, care services minister Ivan Lewis has announced plans for a National School for Social Care Research with the intention of improving social care services across England.
Mencap, 3 June 2008
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New social care research school
The government today announced the creation of a new national school for social care research. The school will be part of the National Institute for Health Research and will get £3m funding a year for the first five years.
Health Service Journal, 30 May 2008
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Government announces a National School for Social Care Research
The Government's commitment to improve social care services will be given a boost with a new National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis announced today.
Department of Health, 30 May 2008
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