Report No. 1 is about how carers access and experience the support and services they need to undertake their caring role and to maintain their own health and wellbeing at different stages of caring.
It includes evidence about the kind of support carers who are in paid work need, and how it looks at how carers can be helped to care and have a life outside caring too. The report examines new evidence, collected in 2006- 2007(from the CES survey of 1,909 carers and in-depth face-to face interviews with 134 carers), about the different services and support carers need at different points in their experience of caring, and how this is affected by who they care for and what their care needs are.