How do people experience the initial point of access to social care and how do they feel about how their needs were met?
Background
Improving social care experience data
Understanding how people experience social care – either as people accessing or providing care and support – informs our evidence of what is working well for people, where there are challenges, and what factors influence positive and negative experiences. This evidence will guide future improvements and help us understand how existing policies, standards and outcomes are being put into practice. Survey data, qualitative research and mixed methods can all contribute to the improvement of social care experience data.
Improving other social care data
We are interested in research projects which can provide evidence and learning to improve qualitative and quantitative social care data and how these can be harnessed more effectively to inform social care policy making. For example: using data linkage to improve data quality / analysis, creating longitudinal datasets (including innovative longitudinal surveys with qualitative data collected from sub-samples), developing survey data and methods, improving metadata, standardisation and reuse of social care data for statistical and research purposes.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Social care analytical unit areas research interest 2026 2029
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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Meaningful and measurable: developing approaches to the analysis and use of information on personal outcomes within health and social care
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Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing approaches to analyzing personal outcomes within health and social care, which directly relates to understanding how people experience social care and how their needs are met.
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University of Brighton and Guild Care KTP 23_24 R1
To develop a monitoring and evaluation framework assessing the social impact of adult social care interventions to inform service design and engage donors to invest in new care approaches....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for assessing the social impact of adult social care interventions, which is related to understanding the impact of social care on individuals' needs being met.
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Carers Assessment Support
**A difficult time to care** Across the UK our social care system is more stretched than ever with increased demand and decreasing budgets. The lack of capacity in the system is placing additional pressures on the unpa...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UPSTREAM OUTCOMES LIMITED
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on supporting unpaid carers and developing a new assessment module, which is related to understanding how people experience social care and the support they receive.