Dr Emma Koivunen

#carer #disability #poverty

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Work with us - Gaddum

Job opportunity / casual role:
Peer researcher in Greater Manchester, for people with personal experience of using or navigating health and/or care services e.g. as a carer or family member

Pay: £15/ hr
Deadline 1 Sept 2025.

www.gaddum.org.uk/work-with-us/

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Please fill in if you are an unpaid carer, or share - this is the key annual survey of unpaid carers that helps to amplify carers voices

Deadline 10 Aug

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figure 14 shows that at the same time as there has been substantial unmet demand for social care – which has pushed the burden onto unpaid carers – spending in England on services that support unpaid carers, including respite care, has fallen by nearly a third (31 per cent) since 2014-15 (the earliest comparable data), or by 36 per cent per carer in the population. As a result, fewer carers have accessed such support: between 2012-13 and 2023-24, the proportion of carers that received home care or help for the person they care for fell from two-fifths (41 per cent) to just under a third (31 per cent), and those accessing day centres or day activities dropped from nearly a third (31 per cent) to just over onefifth (23 per cent).7

There is substantial unmet demand for social care – which has pushed the burden onto unpaid carers.

At the same time, spending in England on services that support unpaid carers, including respite care, has fallen by nearly a third.

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🆕 Comparing Census data with 13 million GP records, we've analysed how good general practices are at recording who is an unpaid carer in England.

#Carers from deprived areas and certain ethnic groups are much more likely to be missed by general practices.

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