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New funding will help us support positive cultures in social care
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New funding will help us support positive cultures in social care

| Social Care Wales

Our work to embed positive cultures within social care in Wales has been given a boost thanks to funding from the Rayne Foundation’s Better Careers for Better Care programme.

The Rayne Foundation supports programmes that create and promote positive social change. Its funding will allow us to work with social care providers across Wales to learn about their experiences of supporting and measuring positive cultures within their organisations. We’ll then use our findings to design and test ways of embedding positive cultures across social care.

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What are positive cultures?

Positive cultures involve creating safe workplace environments where compassion, respect and empowerment are at the heart of social care.

Our work and research on positive cultures show clear links between organisations with a good culture and improved well-being outcomes for people who use care and support services and the people who care for them.

How we’re supporting positive cultures

Together with Care Inspectorate Wales, we recently launched a new Supporting positive cultures guide to help social care leaders and managers build and grow positive cultures in their organisations.

As we move ahead with our work with the Rayne Foundation, we’ll be inviting social care providers to share their experiences of supporting and measuring positive cultures in their organisations. We’ll aim to discover what approaches have been tried, what’s worked for them, the challenges they’ve experienced and what further help they need.

Commenting on the funding award, Holly Baine, programme development lead for the Rayne Foundation said:

“This is our first project in Wales within the Better Careers for Better Care funding programme, and we’re delighted to be working with Social Care Wales to support learning on how to implement positive cultures in adult social care and measure its impact on both the workforce and the quality of care for older people.”

Lisa Trigg, our Director of Improvement and Development said:

“People with lived experience, providers, commissioners and regulators all have a role in leading, influencing and enabling positive cultures.

“We’re excited to be working alongside the Rayne Foundation and partners in Wales to coproduce, test and identify the best ways of supporting providers to nurture positive cultures within their organisations and services”.

To find out more about our work in supporting positive cultures, contact us at positivecultures@socialcare.wales.