{"id":8688,"date":"2025-01-28T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pssru.ac.uk\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:05:09","slug":"1-6m-research-to-address-value-for-money-in-home-social-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/1-6m-research-to-address-value-for-money-in-home-social-care\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31.6m research to address value for money in home social care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collaboration led by Kent has been awarded \u00a31.6 million by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nihr.ac.uk\/research-funding\/funding-programmes\/policy-research\">National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme<\/a>\u00a0to assess the value for money social care services provide to people receiving care and to their families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pssru.ac.uk\/our-people\/florin-vadean\/\">Dr Florin Vadean<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pssru.ac.uk\/our-people\/olena-nizalova\/\">Dr Olena Nizalova<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pssru.ac.uk\/\">Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)<\/a>\u00a0are leading the three year collaboration with researchers from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/\">King\u2019s College London<\/a>, social research specialists at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/\">Ipsos<\/a>, analysts at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skillsforcare.org.uk\/Adult-Social-Care-Workforce-Data\/Workforce-intelligence\/publications\/national-information\/The-state-of-the-adult-social-care-sector-and-workforce-in-England.aspx\">Skills for Care<\/a>\u00a0as well as provider organisations\u2019 representatives from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.homecareassociation.org.uk\/\">Homecare Association<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.housinglin.org.uk\/\">Housing Learning and Improvement Network<\/a>. The project is also supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqc.org.uk\/\">Care Quality Commission<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rdn.nihr.ac.uk\/\">NIHR Research Delivery Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Care provided in peoples\u2019 own homes -home care or domiciliary care- is becoming an increasingly important part of social care. Services vary from regular daily visits to 24\/7 live-in care and support, with or without complex clinical interventions; and some people are directly employing care staff (i.e., Personal Assistants [PAs]). They can vary dramatically in quality, price, and availability, some are regulated while others not, and there is currently little evidence of the value these services provide to people who rely on care and support, their families, and the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/health-social-care-and-wellbeing\/36072\/1-6m-research-to-address-value-for-money-in-home-social-care\">\u00a31.6m research to address value for money in home social care &#8211; News Centre &#8211; University of Kent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaboration led by Kent has been awarded \u00a31.6 million by the\u00a0National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme\u00a0to assess the value for money social care services provide to people receiving care and to their families. Dr Florin Vadean\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Olena Nizalova\u00a0from the\u00a0Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)\u00a0are leading the three year collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":11591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,63,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-2","category-highlighted","category-social-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/corec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}