Carers UK gathers hard evidence about what needs to change. We use this to influence health, social care, employment, social inclusion and other areas of government.

• Carers UK conducts surveys directly with carers about how caring impacts on their lives, whether policies make a real difference and to help us shape our campaign priorities. 
• We work with research partners such as Leeds University to improve knowledge about who carers are and how their lives are affected.
• Carers UK sucessfully campaigned for a question about caring to be included in the 2001 census and through our research partners have conducted detailed analysis of the census data to reveal new insights into the patterns of caring.
• Carers UK' s research programme is helping gain a fuller understanding of how caring impacts on people's lives and find evidence based policy solutions which will help reduce poverty, ill health and social exclusion of carers.

Recent research

• In the know. looks at the difference that information and help makes to their lives
• More than a Job. Drawing on evidence from the 2001 Census this finds that working carers are up to three times more likely to be in poor health than their non-working counterparts
• Ipsos MORI survey highlights the discrepancy of the publics expectations of social care and the harsh reality.
• Who Cares Wins. looks at the social and business benefits of supporting working carers

• Whose rights are they anyway? examines why the Human Rights Act has not yet been of value to carers, but that it could be and points to evidence that in individual cases carers may face human rights violations which could be open to challenge in the courts.

Some of our research reports are available to download by clicking here

Some of our research reports can be ordered online by clicking here