Here we provide links to our recent key outputs around unpaid carers.
Read more about Carers Rights Day 2025: ‘Know your rights, use your rights’Unpaid Carers
Unpaid carers share their stories of being affected by an outdated benefit system
Leanne and Alison share their stories of caring and being affected by Carer’s Allowance- a benefit in need of urgent reform.
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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 reform
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 costsEuropean Carers Day 2025: Exploring policy barriers faced by migrant careworkers coming to the UK
Millie Hind speaks with Patricia Chinyoka, founder of Women of Zimbabwe about the challenges faced by migrant careworkers trying to bring with their children to the UK
Read more about European Carers Day 2025: Exploring policy barriers faced by migrant careworkers coming to the UKLaura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding the concerns of unpaid carers about long-term care systems relying on migrant care workers.
Read more about Mapping informal carers’ (unpaid carers’) concerns regarding long-term care systems relying on migrant care workersLaura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding work-life balance and carers’ leave.
Read more about Work-Life Balance and Carer’s LeavePathways to Work or Pathways to Poverty? The Risks of Welfare Reform for Disabled People and Carers
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.
Read more about Pathways to Work or Pathways to Poverty? The Risks of Welfare Reform for Disabled People and Carers