Unpaid carers are now providing more hours of care than ever - looking after a family member, friend and neighbours living with challenges related to older age, long-term illness, or disability - according to a new interactive digital dashboard, launched by the Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield.
Created in partnership with charity Carers UK, the University of Birmingham, South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and people with lived experience of care - the Unpaid Care Dashboard visualises ONS Census data on unpaid carers from 2011 to 2021 in England and Wales for the first time.
Unpaid carers provide the majority of care needed by a family member, friend or neighbour. Yet many unpaid carers receive limited, or no financial assistance. The dashboard shows that the number of hours of care they provide increases, so does the number of unpaid carers who report poorer health and being unable to sustain being in paid employment.
It shows that since 2011, those now providing over 50 hours of care in a week has increased from 24 to 30 per cent of all unpaid carers. In England and Wales, five million people report to provide unpaid care, now valued at £162 billion a year, an increase of over 29 per cent since 2011.
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