Care matters. It is a complex and important issue that affects everyone at some point in their life.
The Centre for Care provides accessible evidence on care to inform changes that could improve the lives of millions of people.
The Centre for Care links experts on care in 5 universities, 3 major charities and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.
Funded as an ESRC Research Centre to address the need for evidence on care that can make a difference, we have built a large research team to co-produce excellent research on care topics that really matter. We work closely with partner organisations in the care sector and people with direct experience of care.
Latest Updates
News and latest content from the Centre for Care
QAR-Net Care announces its second workshop, submit your papers!
Read More about QAR-Net Care second workshop: Call for papers
Celebrating Sue Yeandle’s appointment to OBE in the King’s 2025 Birthday Honours
Read More about Professor Sue Yeandle recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
A Quantitative Lens on Care Inequalities: Socioeconomic Disparities and Structural Barriers Following on from our earlier announcement, we are excited to give a more in-depth overview of the research that will be showcased in our QAR-NET Care symposium at the Transforming Care Conference 2025, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, from 25-27 June. This session […]
Read More about QAR-Net Care Symposium at Transforming Care Conference 2025
Centre for Care researcher Becky Driscoll provides an update on our recent contributions to government inquiries and committees relevant to social care.
Read More about Contributions to committees and inquiries
Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
Professor Nathan Hughes responds to the UK Government’s 2025 Spending Review in relation to children’s social care.
Read More about Can New Money Shift Old Systems? What the 2025 Spending Review Might Mean for System Change in Children’s Social Care
The Centre for Care team respond to last week’s 2025 UK government Spending Review.
Read More about Left on the Back-Burner: Adult Social Care and the 2025 Spending Review
In recent research carried out at the University of Sheffield, we explored whether children who had a social worker or were in care experienced worse outcomes in the criminal justice system than other children.
Read More about Supporting Vulnerable Children in the UK Care System
For National Children’s Day (UK), Becky Driscoll discusses our research in collaboration with Kinship, highlighting the need to provide further support to kinship carers.
Read More about Time to value kinship carers
Explore key topics
Exploring how digital technology, care and caring relationships intersect and interact.
Read moreabout Digital Care: roles, risks, realities and rewards
Improving the social care data and analytical infrastructure.
Read moreabout Care Data InfrastructureOur Research Groups
Here we explore experiences of care at different life stages, when families are geographically dispersed and as people experience different parts of the care system.
Read moreabout Care Trajectories and Constraints
We use statistics and link data to study how socio-economic, health and other inequalities shape experiences of care for groups and individuals in different places and over time.
Read moreabout Inequalities in Care
We study change, innovation and challenges in paid care work: recruitment, organisation, conditions, digitalisation and their effects on job and service quality.
Read moreabout Care Workforce Change
Who we’re working with
The Centre for Care links experts on care in 5 universities, 3 major charities and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.
