This response is provided by members of the ESRC-funded Centre for Care and IMProving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) Centre, alongside collaborators from Swansea and Cardiff Universities.
The Centre for Care is a research-focused collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, Carers UK, the National Children’s Bureau, and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, as one of its flagship research centres, with contributions from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Department of Health and Social Care, it works with care sector partners and leading international teams to provide accessible and up-to-date evidence on care – the support needed by people of all ages who need assistance to manage everyday life. It also draws on evidence from the IMProving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) Centre, funded by the ESRC and the Health Foundation, principally from the IMPACT Network on Carers, Transitions and Co-production and research from Dr Maria Cheshire Allen and Dr Dan Burrows from the Swansea and Cardiff Universities respectively.
Contributors –
Dr. Maria Teresa Ferazzoli – IMPACT Network Deputy Lead, IMPACT and Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield
Dr. Maria Chesire-Allen – Senior Research Fellow, Swansea Centre for Health Economics at Swansea University
Dr Dan Burrows – Senior Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University,
Lucy Wood – Impact Associate, Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield