Towards a better future for care
Our interactive report highlights a selection of the achievements, policy influence, and impact catalysed by the Centre’s activities and research contributions during phase 1 (2021–25). It presents our plans for phase 2 (2025–28), including how the Centre will continue to fill critical gaps in knowledge, push boundaries, build research capacity, create new data infrastructure and make a difference in people’s lives.
Explore our report to learn about our methodological innovations, our contribution to theory around care, how we are bridging data gaps, influencing policy change and care practice, enhancing public understandings of care and much more!
The interactive report was edited and designed by Research Retold.
Foreword by Wendy Chamberlain MP
I encourage everyone who reads this report to consider its contents as a call to action. Let us use this knowledge to inform our decisions, inspire innovation, and work together to ensure that every person receives the dignified and comprehensive care they deserve.
It is a privilege to introduce this pivotal report, which shines a light on the essential work being carried out by the Centre for Care.
Care touches all of our lives. At some point we will all need care ourselves, and many of us will also care for others. Care is not merely an issue for policymakers; it is a fundamental pillar of a productive, and compassionate society.
Since their launch in 2021, the Centre for Care has produced rigorous and accessible research on the issues related to care that really matter. Their commitment to co-producing work with those who draw on and provide care has ensured that lived experience sits at the heart of their findings. The Centre’s forward-thinking and outward-looking approach is exactly what is needed to influence the building of a more resilient and equitable care ecosystem for generations to come.
In my own role as an MP campaigning for carers’ rights, I have drawn extensively on Centre for Care’s research. The Centre’s approach, grounded in partnerships with policy and practice experts and lived-experience voices, has consistently demonstrated the urgent need to support unpaid carers and those they care for. I am proud to have sponsored the Carer’s Leave Bill which passed into law in 2023, a milestone that grants unpaid carers the statutory right to take up to five days of unpaid leave from work each year. The rigorous academic research from the Centre for Care was instrumental in demonstrating the need for this crucial support.
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