Exploring issues around Care at Green Templeton

Research in Specialist and Elderly Care (RESEC) trustees have donated the charity’s remaining funds to the Care Initiative at Green Templeton. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that RESEC could not pursue its activities and as a consequence the trustees decided to wind up the organisation and to encourage its members to support the activities of the Care Initiative.

RESEC was founded at then-Green College by a group of individuals drawn from academic and social policy researchers and practitioners who had been meeting in the early 2000s at the invitation of then-Warden, the late Sir John Hanson.

The focus was always on specialist and elderly care in its widest interpretation and how integrated pathways from new research might be tested and evaluated in real-world settings through engaging local authority, independent and voluntary sector providers.

The college continued to engage actively with RESEC while it was an independent charity, including hosting the Sir John Hanson Memorial Lecture in 2019.

Today, Green Templeton’s Care Initiative explores wide-ranging issues associated with care of older people, both formal and informal care, by bringing together people from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds to share knowledge.

Governing Body Fellow and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy Mary Daly, who leads the Care Initiative said,

‘At Green Templeton we are grateful for the continuing support from RESEC colleagues and for their vote of confidence in our continued strength in issues around social care.

‘This funding will support our current work to evaluate the Care Initiative and plan for its future.’