Community Integrated Care is committed to breaking boundaries and championing inclusion by driving powerful campaigns, raising awareness, and challenging inequality.
Since 2021, we’ve campaigned for fair reward and recognition across the social care sector through our Unfair To Care campaign series. Through landmark reports, we’ve revealed the extent of the social care pay gap and the continual workforce crisis faced by our sector.
We partnered with the world’s leading experts in job evaluation – Korn Ferry – to conduct an independent assessment of the role of a frontline Support Worker, objectively assessing its true value across sectors. Our findings provided a first of its kind, in-depth analysis which debunked the myth of social care as a “low skilled” profession.
Our fifth edition of our Unfair To Care report, ‘Signs of Change’, shows that social care support workers still take home £7,048 less per year than equivalent NHS colleagues – a gap virtually unchanged since last year.
The report charts how far we’ve come, what’s still at stake and what it will take to go the distance. Because the people who deliver care, the people who depend on it, and the families who love them cannot afford to wait.
Explore the findings and join us in calling for a fairer future for social care.
Our Community Integrated Care colleagues have been regular visitors at Westminster, showcasing innovations from our charity whilst also meeting separately with Cabinet and Shadow ministers to represent our charity on the future of social care. We’ve attended party conferences to ensure the voices in social care are heard.
Thousands of care and support providers joined a coordinated Day of Action centred in Westminster and simultaneously from multiple locations around the country. Colleagues and people supported by Community Integrated Care attended the Providers Unite Picnic in London, exercising their right to be heard.
When the government announced a General Election in May, we knew it was time to take action. Determined to empower the people we support to have their say and to influence change across the social care sector at this crucial time, we responded with a series of impactful initiatives.
Our charity partnered with local and national police forces to launch a nationwide safety campaign focused on social care.
Together, we developed resources and solutions tailored to real safety needs, offering practical guidance on recognising hate crimes, building confidence, and fostering greater independence.
If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch!