Further work and publications on care and employment
Who Cares Wins
- Who Cares Wins: The Social and Business Benefits of Supporting Working Carers
by Sue Yeandle, Cinnamon Bennett, Lisa Buckner, Lucy Shipton and Anu Suokas. - Executive Summary
Who Cares Wins presents the findings of research conducted for Carers UK as part of the Action for Carers and Employment (ACE National) Development Partnership (ACE 1), funded through the ESF EQUAL Community Initiative Programme. Designed to explore the social and business benefits of supporting working carers, the study enabled us to do the following:
- clarify the circumstances of carers who are in employment, and establish the policy and business context in which the situation of carers and employment should be understood.
- identify some of the challenges which organisations and individuals face in combining employment and caring.
- explore innovative approaches in selected organisations, which have changed the way they operate, and created workplace cultures which enable carers to continue in paid work.
- examine why these employers think it is in their business and organisational interests to create a supportive working environment for working carers.
Action for Carers and Employment 1
- Action for Carers and Employment (ACE National): An Evaluation
by Eleanor Formby and Sue Yeandle
This project, completed in July 2005, was the national evaluation of Carers UK's EU EQUAL programme project, Action for Carers and Employment (ACE1).
- Caring for Sick or Disabled Children: parents' experiences of combining work and care
by Bernadette Stiell, Lucy Shipton and Sue Yeandle. - Caring for Sick or Disabled Children: executive summary
- Supporting Work-Life Balance Using Non-Standard Hours Childcare
by Eleanor Formby, Ning Tang and Sue Yeandle.
Statistical Analysis of Data on Carers
- We Care Do You?
by Lisa Buckner and Sue Yeandle. - Managing More Than Most: a statistical analysis of families with sick or disabled children
by Lisa Buckner and Sue Yeandle. - Who Cares Wins: statistical analysis
by Lisa Buckner and Sue Yeandle. - More than a job: Working Carers: evidence from the 2001 census
by Lisa Buckner and Sue Yeandle.
Action for Carers and Employment 2
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Valuing Carers - calculating the value of unpaid care [PDF: 370KB]
by Lisa Buckner and Sue Yeandle.
This report updates the estimate of the value of unpaid care published by Carers UK in 2002 in 'Without Us…? Calculating the value of carers' support'. Based on data available for the first time at local as well as at national level, and on comprehensive information about the time carers devote to supporting those who need their help, the report reveals just how crucial carers are to the health and social care system and to the UK’s economy.
- Care and Caring in EU Member States
by Lisa Buckner and Sue Yeandle, for Eurocarers, European Association Working for Carers.
This paper outlines key trends and developments in population ageing, life expectancy and caring responsibility. These data underpin the powerful case for a stronger focus on care as a central feature of EU social and economic policy, and Eurocarers' lobbying position on the need for new policy measures supporting carers.
The 'Care to take a look' is a policy tool looking at the difference that caring makes to individuals and families and highlights the contribution that carers make to national life. It is the product of interviews with carers and of discussion and exploration with Carers UK and the ACE project team and its European partners. It is based on statistics provided by the University of Leeds.