My Home Life England Annual Impact Report 2025
We’re delighted to share our 2025 Impact Report!
2025 was a packed year of supporting leadership quality and culture change in care settings, releasing major new reports based on sector insights, and contributing to a positive, more sustainable future for health and social care.
Through our professional support and development programmes, we worked with than 230 care leaders across England, with a positive ripple effect on their teams and people receiving care and support.
We also remained very active in our research, releasing new evaluations and a major new report calling for a fundamental shift in how adult social care providers and statutory system bodies work together.
Read our 2025 report:
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Key Highlights:
- Over 230 care leaders completed a My Home Life England programme
- We completed 19 My Home Life England programmes across the North West, East of England, South of England and London, and launched a further 12 more programmes
- We supported improvements in the culture of care in at least 230 care settings
- We worked with leaders from across the care sector – from care homes, home care, supported living and extra care services
- 98% of surveyed care leaders saw an improvement in the quality of their management and leadership.
One Care Home Manager said:
“Our My Home Life England programme has helped us to lead positive, sustainable changes in care quality and staff morale, and to navigate complex situations with more confidence.“
A Local Authority Commissioner said:
“We’re incredibly proud to have funded My Home Life as part of our commitment to investing in the care sector and its leadership. Feedback from providers has been overwhelmingly positive. The course goes beyond theory — managers are taking real, practical insights back to their homes, from improving communication and prioritising staff wellbeing, to developing confidence in their leadership style.”
Our latest programme evaluation reveals that participation in a My Home Life England programme had a clear and significant impact on care leaders, helping them grow in professional confidence and resilience, strengthen their leadership skills, and build supportive peer relationships that reduced feelings of isolation.
New reports and evaluations:
A major new report: ‘Improved outcomes through partnership working: A vision for social care’
A key achievement was publishing our two year inquiry into effective sector-system partnerships. We brought together insights from 90 stakeholders across care, local government and health, a literature review, 11 case studies and learning from our work with more than 2,600 care leaders.
We identified that adult-to-adult relationships are at the heart of good partnership working; when prioritised, and when care providers are valued as equal providers, outcomes improve for everyone, including better-designed initiatives, financial savings, improved hospital discharge, and a more resilient and responsive care sector.
A spotlight on homecare: ‘Leadership in Homecare Services – What Works Well?’
Insights from 90 homecare professionals working across England revealed 6 key elements of effective leadership in homecare services. We found that supportive management, good team communications, a positive work culture, clarity about roles, strong customer care and effective working within the wider system can be transformative for homecare teams and the quality of care they provide.
Other research: Virtual Care Technology and Sustained ‘Thriving in Residential Care’ implementation
We completed our 2-year evaluation of Shropshire Council’s Virtual Care Delivery project, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. We found that, when embedded effectively, virtual care technologies can support users’ independence, health, wellbeing, and aspects of daily living, while delivering meaningful benefits across the wider care system, and offering a sustainable, scalable approach to social care.
We also continued to spread the findings – both in the UK and internationally – of our 2024 ‘Thriving’ study, which revealed six key ways that older people can thrive in a care home. We supported more care services to embed the research into practice through bespoke workshops.
Looking ahead
“Our work in empowering care leaders through high quality professional development opportunities, and contributing to a sustainable future for health and social care, feels even more relevant now than ever before.” – Tom Owen, Director of My Home Life England
My Home Life is now in its 20th year, and we have worked alongside more than 2,700 care leaders to support quality and sustainability in the wider health and social care system
To discuss how My Home Life England might best support you, we welcome you getting in touch with us.