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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.
Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
A research summary report of ‘The Transitions that Matter’ project, by Hayrunisa Pelge and Catherine Needham.
Read More about Summary Report: The Transitions that Matter ProjectMaxine Watkins writes about the invaluable contribution unpaid carers make to society and how crucial it is that the next government prioritises their needs in policymaking and resource allocation.
Read More about Unpaid Carers: Will the next government acknowledge their value?As part of our ‘Transitions that Matter’ commentary series, Catherine Needham and members of the Centre for Care Voice Forum and the University of Birmingham Lived Experience Panel explore why so few people continue to transition to direct payments.
Read More about Why is the take-up of direct payments so low?Sue Yeandle comments on the recent reporting on Carer’s Allowance, providing context and highlighting the need for much overdue reform.
Read More about Carer’s allowance: let’s end this scandal now!
Explore key topics
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We explore how arrangements for care – formal systems, support by families and friends, local and national arrangements affecting daily life – fit together and affect each other, focusing on how care system outcomes could be improved.
Read moreabout Care as a Complex Adaptive Ecosystem![Meeting between two professionals, discussing data on laptop screen](https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/resized-for-website-topic-feat-image-3-540x360.jpg)
We work to improve the quality, availability and provision of data on care, collaborating with ONS and other partners to produce up-to-date, world-class data infrastructure on care for all to use.
Read moreabout Care Data Infrastructure![a young man with cerebral palsy sitting using touch screen computer](https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/resize-test-540x360.jpg)
We investigate how digital technologies, care and caring relationships are evolving and interact, and what this means for people with support needs, those who assist them and the wider care system.
Read moreabout Digital Care: roles, risks, realities and rewardsOur Research Groups
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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![Care worker cleaning speaking with client](https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/resized-for-website-topic-feat-image-5-540x360.jpg)
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![elderly man sitting alone on his bed.](https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/resized-for-website-topic-feat-image-6-540x360.jpg)
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![Team members from the Centre for Care and IMPACT and Dr Tiina Sihto and Dr Obert Tawodzera.](https://centreforcare.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Team-and-OT-TS-visit-16th-April-2024-for-website.jpg)
Latest Updates
News and latest content from the Centre for Care
Join us for an online seminar as we virtually welcome Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer from the University of Birmingham, to present Understanding suicide and homicide risk in unpaid carers.
Read More about Seminar: Understanding suicide and homicide risk in unpaid carers, Dr Siobhan O’DwyerResearch Participants needed. Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) are working with the Centre for Care to explore how digital technologies can support living a good life.
Read More about Research participants neededA research summary report of ‘The Transitions that Matter’ project, by Hayrunisa Pelge and Catherine Needham.
Read More about Summary Report: The Transitions that Matter ProjectLaura Griffith hosts the final parts of this episode which continues to focus on the topic of values-based recruitment in adult social care.
Read More about Podcast: Values-based recruitment in Adult Social Care, parts two and three