ARC NWC has been successful in securing £260,000 funding from the National Institute for Heath and Care Research to help build research capacity in social care.

Delivery of this key piece of work includes.

· Establishing a bespoke Partner (member) Priority Programme (PPP) for Social Care Research/Implementation incorporating ten groups with ten knowledge mobilisation internships under supervision and cross group mentoring.

· Establish and support a community of practice for Social Care champions within member organisations for research and its implementation.

· Key outputs to be utilized by members including on/offline resources in addition to linking up with the national resource library being administered by Kent / Surrey / Sussex ARC.

· Capitalise on existing ARC infrastructure and initiatives such as our connected Research Communities, Health Equity mainstreaming work and existing capacity building infrastructure for delivering internships.

· Offer some bespoke training or support for external courses!

· We will offer rounds of RaCES in Social Care topics.

To ensure all elements of the collaboration have a say in the research subjects we choose to invest in and to ensure engagement is ongoing we are happy to visit member organisations and hold regular online/offline updates in addition to the regular channels such as ARCFEST/Member script updates etc.

Please come to our launch and first workshop to help with moving this forward at ARCFEST in March in Liverpool. All ideas for increasing capacity building in social care are welcome including subjects for our PPP programme. Enquiries to arcnwc@liverpool.ac.uk