Welcome to CareKnowledge

We put professional development at the heart of your social care practice

Where would you like to start?

Not yet a member? Find out more about CareKnowledge.

February Webinar Replay

We rarely get the chance to ask the deeper philosophical questions raised by the caring professions. Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking creates space for exploring what the idea of care takes for granted and how we might learn to see some of its values and challenges differently.

Watch or listen

Next Free Webinar

Caring for others is, at its heart, the practice of making connections. This webinar explores the nature of connection and disconnection in care relationships, and why deepening our understanding of relationships is key to effective and compassionate care.

Register now

Multimedia Resource Sets

Structured around video and audio replays of CareKnowledge Live webinars, our resource sets include outlined learning objectives and facilitator instructions for delivering the content as an in-house seminar.

Explore resource sets

Member shortcuts

Your homepage

Promotional resources

Get in touch

Featured for members

Understanding Girls in the Children and Young People Secure Estate

A CareKnowledge briefing that provides an analysis and summary of the key points from a recent Ministry of Justice report, which looked at girls’ placements in the children and young people's secure estate, and considers the key themes around trauma and being trauma-informed, and girls who are care experienced. [27-Mar-2025]

Risk Assessing Suicide: How Can we Make Care Settings, Prisons and the Youth Secure Estate Safer?

A CareKnowledge report that explores the issues with current methods of risk assessing suicide in criminal justice and care settings by using a Fatal Accident Inquiry, that investigated the deaths of two young people by suicide as a case study and considers possible solutions.

Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity [Replay]

Video and audio replays of Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity, a CareKnowledge Live webinar first broadcast on 4 December 2024.

What Does the Social Care 360 Report Tell Us About the Changing Face of Adult Social Care?

A CareKnowledge briefing looking at the findings of the recent King’s Fund long read, Social Care 360, which looked at the current landscape of adult social care. [14-Mar-2025]

Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking [Replay]

Video and audio replays of Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking, a CareKnowledge Live webinar first broadcast on 12 February 2025.

Emphasising Interconnectedness: How Philosophical and Theoretical Frameworks Can Improve Practice with Dually-Involved Youth

A CareKnowledge analysis of the merits of using the philosophy of hauntology as a theoretical lens through which to improve practice with young people dually involved in youth offending and social care. [27-Jan-2025]

What is Needed to Improve Support and Care for Children with a Disability and Their Families?

A CareKnowledge report that summarises the key points, questions and recommendations from the Law Commission's consultation on disabled children's social care law, and situates it within the wider context of other recent publications. [17-Dec-2024]

Cuckooing: Creatively Responding to the Challenge

Video and audio of a conversation with Surrey Police's Joanna Grimshaw and Karen Jones from Catalyst Support about the partnership work taking place to support vulnerable people experiencing - or at risk of - cuckooing in Surrey.

Cuckooing: Multi-Agency Safeguarding, Powers and Practice [Replay]

Video and audio replays of Cuckooing: Multi-Agency Safeguarding, Powers and Practice, a CareKnowledge Live webinar first broadcast on 21 November 2024.

Understanding Girls in the Children and Young People Secure Estate

Risk Assessing Suicide: How Can we Make Care Settings, Prisons and the Youth Secure Estate Safer?

Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity [Replay]

Video and audio replays of Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity, a CareKnowledge Live webinar first broadcast on 4 December 2024.

What Does the Social Care 360 Report Tell Us About the Changing Face of Adult Social Care?

A CareKnowledge briefing looking at the findings of the recent King’s Fund long read, Social Care 360, which looked at the current landscape of adult social care. [14-Mar-2025]

Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking [Replay]

Video and audio replays of Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking, a CareKnowledge Live webinar first broadcast on 12 February 2025.

Welcome to CareKnowledge

We put professional development at the heart of your social care practice

Where would you like to start?

Adults

Children

Events

Resources

Practice

The Bookshelf

February Webinar Replay

Next Free Webinar

Multimedia Resource Sets

Member shortcuts

Your homepage

Promotional resources

Get in touch

Featured for members

Understanding Girls in the Children and Young People Secure Estate

Risk Assessing Suicide: How Can we Make Care Settings, Prisons and the Youth Secure Estate Safer?

Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity [Replay]

What Does the Social Care 360 Report Tell Us About the Changing Face of Adult Social Care?

Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking [Replay]

Emphasising Interconnectedness: How Philosophical and Theoretical Frameworks Can Improve Practice with Dually-Involved Youth

What is Needed to Improve Support and Care for Children with a Disability and Their Families?

Cuckooing: Creatively Responding to the Challenge

Cuckooing: Multi-Agency Safeguarding, Powers and Practice [Replay]

Understanding Girls in the Children and Young People Secure Estate

Risk Assessing Suicide: How Can we Make Care Settings, Prisons and the Youth Secure Estate Safer?

Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity [Replay]

What Does the Social Care 360 Report Tell Us About the Changing Face of Adult Social Care?

Plato's Cave: Thinking About Care, Caring About Thinking [Replay]

Emphasising Interconnectedness: How Philosophical and Theoretical Frameworks Can Improve Practice with Dually-Involved Youth

What is Needed to Improve Support and Care for Children with a Disability and Their Families?

Cuckooing: Creatively Responding to the Challenge

Cuckooing: Multi-Agency Safeguarding, Powers and Practice [Replay]

Featured for members

Understanding Girls in the Children and Young People Secure Estate

Risk Assessing Suicide: How Can we Make Care Settings, Prisons and the Youth Secure Estate Safer?

Creating a Christmas that Works for Children in Care: Collaboration, Understanding and Sensitivity [Replay]

Sign In

Confirm

Welcome to CareKnowledge

We put professional development at the heart of your social care practice

Where would you like to start?

Adults

Children

Events

Resources

Practice

The Bookshelf

February Webinar Replay

Next Free Webinar

Multimedia Resource Sets

Member shortcuts

Your homepage

Promotional resources

Get in touch