Becky Driscoll provides an overview of our most recent policy breakfast event in Westminster, where our attendees heard from our researchers and contributed to a discussion on how the Department for Work and Pensions can re-build a meaningful releationship with carers.
Read more about How can the Department for Work and Pensions re-build trust with carers? Highlights from our policy breakfast
Becky Driscoll provides an overview on the UK Government’s recent update on addressing the Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments’s recommendations, and presents our new Research Briefing.
Read more about Accountability and action at last for unpaid carers with Carer’s Allowance overpayments? Complexity, vulnerability and harm in the welfare benefits system
Our research is featured by our funders in nation-wide campaign
Our research on unpaid carers is part of a nation-wide campaign!
Read more about Our research is featured by our funders in nation-wide campaignTowards 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’.
Read more about Towards a better future for care: Centre for Care Impact report (November 2021-April 2025)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.
Read more about Seminar: Care and Place: older people’s housing and communities and their social care needs, care use, and care costsThe 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.
Read more about The life course costs of caring: Understanding unpaid carers’ financial wellbeing over timeWe welcomed Professor Catherine Needham and Dr. Emily Burn to present their research on 16th December 2025. Event recording now available.
Read more about Seminar: Professor Catherine Needham and Dr. Emily BurnCentre 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