Released for Carers Week 2019, Getting Carers Connected compares carers' exerience of loneliness and well-being compared with the rest of the population.  

Caring impacts gender inequality in the economy, in particular women’s economic empowerment, by affecting women’s employment and making them more likely to live in poverty whilst caring or in later life once their caring role has ended.

The Work and Pensions Select Committee in Parliament is carrying out an Inquiry into the Overpayment of Carer’s Allowance. Having taken evidence from Carers UK in November, including evidence from carers, the National Audit Office carried out an investigation into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance. The result of this investigation was published on 26 April 2019. Carers UK has put forward robust evidence for the need for change and made a series of recommendations that we would like to see DWP take up.

The purpose of this evidence submission is to set out the areas of NHS legislation most relevant to carers, including what we think the proposed legislation should include and what is currently missing.

Caring is still often thought of as being part and parcel of a woman’s life and within families, women are still most likely to be providing care and most likely to be providing more hours of care.