Juggling work and care: the impact of reducing work on financial wellbeing
To coincide with the Talk Money Week campaign, Louise Overton, Rachael Black and Becky Driscoll explore the impact that reducing, or stopping, paid work to care for a friend or family member can have on a person’s immediate and long-term financial wellbeing. Plus the knock on effects for long term savings and pensions.
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In the first commentary in ‘The Transitions that Matter’ series, Katy Evans writes about the experience of recruiting a new Personal Assistant.
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Professor Catherine Needham and Dr Chloe Alexander introduce a new commentary series, ‘The Transitions that Matter’, which features commentaries written by members of the University of Birmingham’s Lived Experience Panel.
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Keith Clements summarises the findings of the recently published evaluation by the National Children’s Bureau of support for young people leaving state care with insecure immigration status in England.
Read more about Supporting care leavers with insecure immigration status in England: learning for care organisations and professionalsWhat more can we do to understand the difference that co-production makes in social care?
Dr Rebekah Luff explores co-production in social care, including benefits and recommendations drawn from a report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence ‘Developing our understanding of the difference co-production makes in social care’
Read more about What more can we do to understand the difference that co-production makes in social care?In this commentary, Sarah Givans reflects on an online panel event that explored care workers’ wellbeing as part of Professional Care Workers’ Week 2022.
Read more about Reflections on a care workers’ wellbeing panel, part of Professional Care Workers’ Week, September 2022Grace Whitfield’s commentary focuses on an event arranged as part our submission to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee’s ‘Lifting the veil: Removing the invisibility of adult social care’ inquiry.
Read more about Consulting the Sheffield and District African Caribbean Community Association on the ‘invisibilities’ of social careDuncan Fisher explores how the current cost of living crisis is impacting care workers as he outlines the compelling case for them to be given a pay rise and greater financial security.
Read more about The urgency of increasing care worker payMigration and Intergenerational Cooperation: Rural Migrant Workers’ Family Care in Southern China
PhD Student Yingzi Shen writes about intergenerational family care in Southern China between rural and urban locations
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