Nic Booth is an Adult Social Care Transformation Consultant, research, lived-experience advocate and the founder of Daughterhood UK, the first UK based movement that is dedicated to supporting daughters when they become the primary carer and decision maker for their parents.
Growing up with only one GCSE and now currently completing her Professional Doctorate in Community & Social Care, Nic’s journey is one of resillience, reinvention and purpose-driven leadership. But, her insight and knowledge runs alot deeper than qualifiction. Following the loss of her father in her early 30’s Nic moved both her mum and brother, who both lived with Muscular Dystrophy, into her family home. She raised her own children, with her husband, managed complex disability care and continued to work nationally complete her Masters and currently undertakes her Professional Doctorate.
Nic knows first hand what it means to carry the weight of care whilst trying to hold your own life together.
Nic brings together frontline operational expertise, strategic system knowledge, commissioning insight, digital transformation experience and the very real insight of navigating care when the system offers little support. Nic has worked across local authorities, care providers and national bodies to improve care pathways, strengthen relational practice, redesign services, and ensure that families are genuinely supported throughout the care journey.
Nic is known for her ability to blend professional rigour with emotional truth, speaking powerfully about the hidden labour carried by daughters, trauma in the care system and the urgent need for reform
Speaker & Keynote Bio
Available talks
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Why eldest daughters disproportionately become the default carers when parents need support, exploring birth order, gendered expectations, family dynamics and the emotional and practical labour that falls to women. What it costs them, and why the system relies on it.
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A practical, honest guide to what families actually face when trying to navigate adult social care, the jargon, the gatekeeping, the fragmentation and the gaps. What to expect, what to ask for and how to advocate for yourself and your loved ones when the system wasn’t designed with you in mind.
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How trauma shows up from family carers, the grief, identity, loss, hypervigilence and cumaltive stress of navigating care. Why professionals need to recognise that carers aren’t just “helpers” they’re people experiencing trauma. What trauma-informed support actually looks like for families?
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My personal story of transformation, from leaving school with minimal qualifications to completing a doctorate whilst raising children, caring for family members with muscular dystrophy and building a career. A story about grit, purpose, lived experience as expertise and leading from the margins.
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Why co-production and lived experience must be at the heart of social care transformation, not as tokenism but as essential intelligence. How to genuinely partner with families, shift power dynamics, and design services that actually work for the people who use them.
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What it really means to be a working carer, juggling career demands, raising your own family and managing complex parental care. The identity crisis, the guilt, the exhaustion, and why employers and systems need to wake up to the reality of the sandwich generation.