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Buckinghamshire Association of Care Providers
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Board
    • Our Members
    • Partners
  • Membership
    • Join BCPA
    • Your Membership
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  • News
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    • BCPA networks
    • Training and events
    • Training resources
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    • Digital
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    • Transport
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Open consultations relevant to buckinghamshire care provider

PINNED: SESCA Workforce Survey

PINNED: DHSC ASC workforce survey

PINNED: DHSC ASC workforce survey

SESCA, the South East Social Care Alliance and the regional group for the Care Association Alliance, makes sure the voice of south east providers is part of the national conversation.

This questionnaire concerns workforce reform, and recruitment support. This is your chance to:

  • help us hone our lobbying messages, and
  • shape the design of our future provider schemes.

The survey takes about 10 mins with space to add comments. 

Closes 2 October 2026

PINNED: DHSC ASC workforce survey

PINNED: DHSC ASC workforce survey

PINNED: DHSC ASC workforce survey

The ASC workforce across England is being invited to share experiences in the largest workforce survey of its kind, as ministers step up plans to reform the sector and build a National Care Service. The survey is seeking input from anyone who works in a care-related role in adult social care in England including, but not limited to:

  • Care workers
  • Personal assistants
  • Managers
  • Nurses
  • Social workers

Complete survey

The Big Conversation on Care

PINNED: DHSC ASC workforce survey

NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) for digital care technologies

The current consultation run by The Casey Commission is now closed to new suggestions, but you can vote on existing proposals.

Vote here until 23 September 2026

NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) for digital care technologies

NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) for digital care technologies

NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) for digital care technologies

Survey for care provider leadership & frontline professionals. The survey explores: 

  • What helps digital care technologies work well 
  • Common challenges in practice 
  • What information and evidence people need to make decisions about their use 

The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete. 

Closes 18 September 2026

APPG on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities

NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) for digital care technologies

APPG on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities

The APPG on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities is exploring how intergenerational approaches can transform how we understand and address loneliness across society.

We want real examples. Real evidence. Real impact.

Submit your evidence and help shape national change.

Closes 18 September 2026

Make Work Pay: holiday pay compliance and enforcement

NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) for digital care technologies

APPG on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities

Seeking views on the proposed approach to holiday pay compliance and enforcement by the Fair Work Agency. 

Closes 22 September 2026

Improving the way Ofsted inspects children’s social care

Improving the way Ofsted inspects children’s social care

Improving the way Ofsted inspects children’s social care

Ofsted is in the process of starting a new chapter. In 2024, we carried out a consultation we called ‘the Big Listen’ – the largest consultation in our history. This gave us valuable feedback on how all our inspections could be improved.

We are now building directly on what we heard in the Big Listen. 

Closes 28 September 2026

Make Work Pay: workplace monitoring technologies

Improving the way Ofsted inspects children’s social care

Improving the way Ofsted inspects children’s social care

Seeking views on proposals to support the fair, transparent and responsible use of workplace monitoring technologies, used to monitor, manage or make decisions relating to workers. 

Closes 30 September 2026

Using the professional title ‘nurse’

Using the professional title ‘nurse’

Using the professional title ‘nurse’

Seeking evidence that contributes towards an understanding of:

  • the professions and roles that should continue to be able to use the title ‘nurse’ without risk of prosecution
  • other professional titles that should be protected under the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) legislative framework

Closes 8 October 2026

Equal pay and pay discrimination

Using the professional title ‘nurse’

Using the professional title ‘nurse’

Seeking views on how we can comprehensively reform the pay discrimination framework so that it works better for workers, businesses and the justice system. 

Closes 27 October 2026

ongoing surveys and research with no specified closing date

Care Workers Charity Wellbeing Survey 2026

First voluntary register for care and support workers

Care Workers Charity Wellbeing Survey 2026

This survey is designed to extract specific data on a range of issues faced by Care Workers, influencing policy decisions and ensuring Care Workers’ voices are at the heart of change. By completing this survey, you will be entered into a Prize Draw.  

Start survey - no closing date

The Casey Commission on Adult Social Care

First voluntary register for care and support workers

Care Workers Charity Wellbeing Survey 2026

The Commission on Adult Social Care wants to hear from you. You may want to tell us about your personal experiences of how the system works today – good and bad – and also ideas about how it could be improved.

This page is for anyone – whether you use care and support, work in care, are from an organisation that provides care or works to improve it or you just want to share your thoughts as in interested citizen. We’d like to hear your experiences in your own words and learn what matters most to you.

Consultation open til further notice

First voluntary register for care and support workers

First voluntary register for care and support workers

First voluntary register for care and support workers

The Professional Standards Authority invites you to share evidence or insight to inform their assessment of the Care Professionals Register operated by the Care Professional Organisation (formerly NACAS) which has applied for accreditation as a voluntary professional register for care and support workers in England. 

Short form submission

LIVE-DEM

Understanding adults with a learning disability experience of everyday technology

First voluntary register for care and support workers

This study, led by the University of Southampton, is the first study conducted about live-in care when dementia is the primary support need. The study aims to research live-in care from multiple perspectives to improve clarity and provide evidence that will help  families navigate the long-term care system, and policymakers develop and improve this form of homecare. 

Find out more - open research

The National Conversation on Community Cohesion

Understanding adults with a learning disability experience of everyday technology

Understanding adults with a learning disability experience of everyday technology

This project aims to understand sense of belonging and perceptions of unity and division in the United Kingdom. The study will involve completing a questionnaire with some interactive elements. It will require around 10-15 minutes of your time. You will be presented with questions about how you feel about your local area and the United Kingdom along with some basic demographic questions.

Find out more - open research

Understanding adults with a learning disability experience of everyday technology

Understanding adults with a learning disability experience of everyday technology

Understanding adults with a learning disability experience of everyday technology

We want to understand what everyday technology is being used with and for adults with learning disabilities support. We are asking people who work within support provision, family carers, and adults with a learning disability to complete a short online survey.  The information gathered from this survey will help us understand which technologies are being used by and to support adults with learning disabilities, as well as the purposes they serve.

Read more - open research
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