Innovations in Adult Social Care and Social Work Report

The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. [...] The project was undertaken in the context of the NIHR School for Social Care Research “Research priorities in adult social care – scoping review” published in June 2019 (Cyhlarova and Clark, 2019) and the James Lind Alliance’s work for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on “Priorities for Adult Social Work Research” (DHSC, 2018). [...] 6 At the start of the workshop2, participants received short presentations which introduced the workshop, outlined the purpose of the workshop, explained how the 20 innovations were identified, and provided the funder’s perspective. [...] The top of the diamond represented the most important innovations expressed in the previous discussion and the lower tip the less important topics. [...] On the other hand, many benefits of technological innovations were also discussed, including: the potential for professionals to use innovations to objectively monitor clients and the potential to mitigate risks of infringement of civil liberties, as professionals could do assessments remotely and may not need to be in the same location as the care user.