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Kelly Perry is the Project Leader for Click, a supportive and inclusive online community that supports adults with a learning disability and autistic people. As part of our #ThinkDigital campaign, Kelly shares with us how Click began and the benefits of connecting digitally.

It's just over 10 years since Winterbourne View and the families of some of the people who were there recently wrote to the Prime Minster in a letter with the subject line 'Tea, Smiles and Empty Promises'. Thousands of children and adults are still in inpatient units, and hundreds of them have been there since before that scandal.

Skills for Care and Care Friends are celebrating the first anniversary of the innovative Care Friends employee referral app which has generated over 16,000 candidates for employers, picked for their values by their care staff.

Using data to analyse results, identify future challenges, and make decisions can be helpful in creating a successful strategy. That's why ensuring that comprehensive and accurate data is available to support the adult social care sector is key to our work at Skills for Care.