This post is brought to you by Bolanle Oyelami, a Tresacare Care Worker Ambassador, who regularly hosts trainings on how to pass the test to gain a driving licence in the UK as part of the programme we run at SESCA. One thing I have learned through my own journey as a care worker is how important it is to have the right information and support. For many care workers, especially those working in domiciliary care, being able to drive can open up more employment opportunities an

Prem and Ale at the Tresacare stand at the Sussex Care Showcase 2026 What if care-worker wellbeing was an investment, not an extra? That was one of the questions we kept coming back to at the Sussex Care Showcase 2026, held at Brighton Racecourse on 16 September. Organised by West Sussex Partners in Care, East Sussex Partners in Care, Brighton and Hove Partners in Care and SESCA, the showcase brought together care providers, professionals, sector leaders and more than 40 exhi

On July 15th, I had the opportunity to speak to Liberal Democrat parliamentarians at a parliamentary roundtable on Pathways to Citizenship, hosted in collaboration with Citizens UK. I was there on behalf of Tresacare and the Humans Not Commodities campaign, to bring an issue we see every day into Parliament: what happens to the thousands of international care workers who have come to the UK legally, worked hard, and are now left in limbo through no fault of their own? The ans

Financial wellbeing is closely connected to overall wellbeing. The brilliant Jaskiran Mangat, founder of Finance Therapy, shares practical support for displaced care workers in financial hardship.

Losing your sponsorship is one of the most frightening things that can happen to an internationally recruited care worker. Maybe your employer's licence was revoked. Maybe your hours disappeared, or you were treated unfairly and had to walk away. Whatever brought you here, please know this: support exists, it is free, and you have every right to use it. Across the South East of England, your local care association is part of a network – backed by the Department of Health

Care worker Bolanle Akinpelu (far left) has just launched her new book Behind Closed Doors and been named Tresacare Care Worker Ambassador There is a line in Bolanle Akinpelu's new book, Behind Closed Doors, that stops you in your tracks: "Behind closed doors, tears fall – but they water the seeds of empathy, humanity and connection." It's the kind of sentence that only someone who has truly lived it could write. And Bolanle has lived it. We are enormously proud to celebrate