Carers UK have launched the State of Caring survey 2021 and they need your views.  

The survey is the UK’s most comprehensive research into the lives and experience of carers and many professionals who work with carers find the results provide a useful evidence base for their work locally. They want to understand carers’ priorities for the future and what support they need to help recover from the pandemic, and to create a positive legacy for the future. Carers UK will use the evidence to continue to campaign for carers to get better support.

Over the last year, the research and responses to the surveys have helped Carers UK to highlight carers’ experiences across the UK to the media. It helped them to campaign successfully for better guidance, testing for carers, PPE for unpaid carers, carers' 'support bubbles' and exemptions to allow carers to get a break. Carers were included in the priority list for the COVID-19 vaccination and we campaigned for specific advice to support juggling work and care. Carers telling us what their priorities are has also helped to focus their work and help decision makers know what matters to carers. 

The survey will close on 13 September and we will be releasing a research report in November.  Take the survey now!

If you have any questions about the research, please get in touch with the policy team by emailing policy@carersuk.org.