Our 2020 Roundup

We had to learn very fast how to carry on with our interviews in the new, remote way of working. Some favourites since we started livestreaming in April:

1. Kate Terroni, Chief Inspectorate for Social Care at CQC joined a panel of managers and campaigners to hear our response to this year's state of care results. Watch back here:
2. In the summer, we had livestreams with both Cabinet Minister for Care Helen Whately MP and the Oppostion Cabinet Minister Liz Kendall MP. We think it is fun to start with Helen's first.
3. 64 guests, 40 livestreams. 12,000 views (and almost 2000 hours of CoproCare content watched) Catch up on every video we made on our channel. **And don't forget to Subscribe if you haven't yet!**

We took your views to government at a crucial time, in reports and consultations:

1. The Health and Social Care Select Committee asked about social care workforce and funding in the middle of the pandemic. We surveyed you and gave a number of clear ways to develop structural support equal to the NHS whilst keeping our distinct, community identity seperate from health services. See our report as well as other submissions here.
2. We spoke to BAME care workers at every level to create recommendations for the National Social Care Taskforce. You can see our work and how it fed into the wider government's recommendations here. 
3. Over a dozen surveys and online focus groups, 6 reports delivered to the public and government. 927 people working or affected by social care reached told us their views for research or consultations.



We turned everything you asked for in the Select Committee responses into dedicated #ActForCare themes. 

Complete with webinars, Q&As, quizzes and so many incredible guest speakers we can't even start to list all our favourites but here's some highlights:

1. We finished the year with Commissioning Care: including a great history of how health and loneliness are understood across civilisations, a behind the scenes look at CCGs, and an incredible debate about alternative coop, funding and planning structures. Here is Buurtzorg and Equal Care Coop. 
2. Care as Women's Work challenged the way women are so closely associated with unpaid and professional care. We had leaders of new economy and progressive campaign work join, watch the webinar here. 

Thanks so much again for being a part of our 2020, we work in our own time to create platforms for the real stakeholders of social care and this would only happen if you continue to take part and tell us what matter to you. Get involved below, and see you next year!! 😊👍