About Us

We are not the usual type of company.
Everything we do is aimed at improving everyday social care practice because this, in turn, improves the lives of people who matter the most: those who need and use social care services. We want to make a difference. Which is pretty much what any social care organisation would say, isn’t it?

So, why are we different?
We are always looking for new ways to do things but we’re not unthinking modernisers: we respect the past and are guided by history. It has always been our aim to make a complicated world as simple as possible. We want to be creative and imaginative and want to see things from the other side of the fence. We try to see the wood from the trees. We do things informally and with a smile because we love our work and we believe in it. We’ll try this and we’ll try that and sometimes we’ll just stick with what went before. Our vision is, simply, to see the world through your eyes. But whatever we do - we will always do the right thing.

Graham Hopkins: Director

Graham started full time with Do the Right Thing in April 2008 after nearly seven years as a journalist. He was Practice Editor of Community Care - the national magazine for social care. Our company was set up in 2007 to develop his successful freelance work.

Before starting a new career in journalism, he spent a couple of years working as a writer, trainer and consultant, having worked the previous nine years in social services for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, where as head of inspection he ran an innovative local authority inspection unit, regulating the borough's care homes and day care services. His belief in putting service users at the heart of inspection is reflected in his book: An Inspector Calls: A practical look at social care inspection, published in 2000.

He is an acknowledged national expert in effective writing and communication in social care. He is author of Plain English for Social Services - A guide to better communication and The Write Stuff - How to write effectively in social care and related fields (both published in 1998). Oh, and he's also knocked out a couple of history books as well. His first book was a biography of the famous mistress to King Charles II: Nell Gwynne - A Passionate Life (Robson Books, 2001). This was followed up by Constant Delights: Rakes Rogues and Scandal in Restoration England (Robson Books, 2002). So, he is clearly at the highbrow end of the market.