Towards a better future for care: Centre for Care Impact report (November 2021-April 2025)
We are very pleased to launch our new impact report today, ‘Towards a better future for care’.
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Seminar recording now available! We welcomed Dr. Nicola Brimblecombe to present ‘Care and Place: older people’s housing and communities and their social care needs, care use, and care costs’ on Tuesday 13th January 2026.
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The life course costs of caring: Understanding unpaid carers’ financial wellbeing over time
Dr. Maxine Watkins and Dr. Louise Overton report on the first study to apply subjective notions of financial wellbeing directly to the experience of care and caring and with an emphasis on capturing and understanding changes in carers’ financial lives over time.
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We welcomed Professor Catherine Needham and Dr. Emily Burn to present their research on 16th December 2025. Event recording now available.
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Centre for Care Impact Specialist, Fay Benskin, writes about our second Policy Breakfast event at the House of Commons in June, which focused on Carer’s Allowance reform.
Read more about Policy breakfast: Carer’s Allowance reformCare home undercover – What does the BBC expose tell us about the state of care?
The Centre for Care reflects on the recent BBC expose into abuses at a Scottish care home, looking at pressures and cultural attitudes in the adult social sector contributing to disparities in the quality of care provided and unstable conditions of employment for care home staff across the UK.
Read more about Care home undercover – What does the BBC expose tell us about the state of care?A ‘double headliner’ event! We virtually welcomed Dr. Maria Petrillo and Dr. Jingwen Zhang to present their research for us on 11th November 2025.
Read more about Seminar: Dr. Maria Petrillo and Dr. Jingwen ZhangEmily Holzhausen CBE (Carers UK) and Professor Nathan Hughes explore Carers UK’s State of Caring 2025 report, highlighting why a new settlement for carers can’t wait.
Read more about Unpaid care in 2025: rising hours, rising costs“Fit for the Future” Our response to the UK Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS
In collaboration with the Social Care Institute for Excellence, our analysis of the UK Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS.
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Centre for Care Researchers Lucy Wood and Becky Driscoll analyse the recent policy discussions around welfare reform in the UK, exploring at the Universal Credit Bill and the Pathways to Work Green Paper published in March 2025.
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Read more about QAR-Net Care second workshop: Call for papersProfessor 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 CareLeft on the Back-Burner: Adult Social Care and the 2025 Spending Review
The Centre for Care team respond to last week’s 2025 UK government Spending Review.
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