Learn on the go: the Community Care podcast

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Booking Overview

Learn on the go is a practitioner-focused knowledge podcast from Community Care Inform for social workers and social care professionals. It’s valuable for PR because episodes bring in credible, issue-specific experts to translate legal, policy, research, and practice implications into practical takeaways for frontline audiences.

Metrics

Episodes: 34

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 3.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 2.1k subscribers

Instagram: 3.1k followers

Contact Information

ruth.hardy@markallengroup.com

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
UK-based (or UK-relevant) subject-matter experts and practitioners in social work/social care, including barristers/legal experts, welfare rights specialists, and leaders or lived-experience experts involved in interventions and safeguarding/modern slavery work; often authors, senior practitioners, educators, and contributors to policy/practice knowledge hubs.
Required Achievements:  
Authorship of practice/knowledge resources (e.g., Benefits A-Z hub), Leadership of interventions or organizations (e.g., founder of a youth-led program), Senior professional experience in law or advisory roles (e.g., appearing up to the Supreme Court; leadership/Chair roles in professional groups), Direct lived experience used to inform practice-facing guidance (for exploitation/safeguarding topics)

Recent Guest Discussions

Alex Ruck Keene - Supreme Court Ruling On Deprivation Of Liberty And Implications For Practice (multifactorial Assessment; Capacity And Consent; Impact On Safeguards Such As Liberty Protection Safeguards).

Adam Elliott - County Lines And Child Criminal Exploitation; Grooming Processes; Warning Signs; Contextual Safeguarding And Help-seeking; Barriers And Next Steps.

Gary Vaux - Welfare Benefits And Support In England And Wales; Barriers To Claiming; Implications Of Under-claimed Benefits And Overlapping Disadvantages.

Recent Topics

Social Work, Social Care, Law, Welfare, Safeguarding

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Learn on the go: the Community Care podcast
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Alex Ruck Keene talks Cheshire West, the Supreme Court ruling and what it means for you

June 09, 2026

A manually transcribed transcript of this podcast is available here.  Welcome to Learn on the go, the podcast from Community Care Inform, where we discuss the issues affecting social workers and social care practitioners. This is a special, one-off edition of Learn on the go, discussing the seismic Supreme Court ruling on 2 June 2026 which overruled its own decision in P v Cheshire West and Chester Council & Anor [2014] UKSC 19 (Cheshire West) on the meaning of deprivation of liberty...

Season 2 Episode 6 - county lines: playing the long game

February 26, 2026

A manually transcribed transcript of this podcast is available here. Welcome to Learn on the go, the podcast from Community Care Inform, where we discuss the issues affecting social workers and social care practitioners. This episode looks at county lines and child criminal exploitation. Discussing this is Adam Elliott, founder of The Long Game, a youth-led intervention to reduce young people’s risk of exposure to these forms of modern slavery. Adam uses his lived experience to hig...

Season 2 Episode 5 - welfare benefits

January 30, 2026

This episode focuses on welfare benefits and support in England and Wales.The welfare benefits system is designed to provide financial support to individuals and families in need. However, according to a report published in 2025 by Policy in Practice, over 7 million households in the UK are missing out on benefits and support due to limited awareness, complexity in the benefits system and stigma around claiming. These barriers are found to often overlap and disproportionately affect people al...

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