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Dr Emma Koivunen
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Carer Experience Lead at Pennine Care NSH Mental Health Trust; parent, unpaid carer. Carers rights and support; coproduction; research; policy. In Greater Manchester & sometimes in Finland
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#carer #disability #poverty
resolutionfoundation.org Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · Aug 13
Over a million lower income families today include both a disabled person and an unpaid carer.

These households suffer a £3,300 income penalty as a result. And this rises to £7,600 if disability benefits are excluded.

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Chart showing the proportion of working-age adults who are disabled or are caring for someone who is ill, disabled or elderly for at least five hours a week, and proportion of families with a disabled member or a carer, by household income: UK, 2023-24 More than two-in-five (43 per cent, or 5.6 million) of low-to-middle income families include a disabled person or a carer, and almost one-in-ten (9 per cent, or 1.1 million) low-to-middle income families include both – more than twice the rate among higher-income families, at 4 per cent (see Figure 7). A further 9 per cent of both low-to-middle income and higher income families have a disabled person or a carer in their wider household, but not within the family
August 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Job opportunity / casual role:
Peer researcher in Greater Manchester, for people with personal experience of using or navigating health and/or care services e.g. as a carer or family member

Pay: £15/ hr
Deadline 1 Sept 2025.

www.gaddum.org.uk/work-with-us/
Work with us - Gaddum
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August 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
emmakoivunen.bsky.social
Please fill in if you are an unpaid carer, or share - this is the key annual survey of unpaid carers that helps to amplify carers voices

Deadline 10 Aug
carers-uk.bsky.social Carers UK @carers-uk.bsky.social · Jul 25
The impact of caring can live on even after your caring journey has ended.

Our State of Caring survey aims to gather as much information as possible to help highlight the issues faced by carers and former carers today.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QNPDKV2
A logo with the text "carersUK" in bold, black and red font is at the top. Below, a red megaphone graphic projects the message "Make your voice heard" diagonally across the image. At the bottom, bold red text reads "State of Caring 2025."
August 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Dr Emma Koivunen
resolutionfoundation.org
There is substantial unmet demand for social care – which has pushed the burden onto unpaid carers.

At the same time, spending in England on services that support unpaid carers, including respite care, has fallen by nearly a third.
figure 14 shows that at the same time as there has been substantial unmet demand for social care – which has pushed the burden onto unpaid carers – spending in England on services that support unpaid carers, including respite care, has fallen by nearly a third (31 per cent) since 2014-15 (the earliest comparable data), or by 36 per cent per carer in the population. As a result, fewer carers have accessed such support: between 2012-13 and 2023-24, the proportion of carers that received home care or help for the person they care for fell from two-fifths (41 per cent) to just under a third (31 per cent), and those accessing day centres or day activities dropped from nearly a third (31 per cent) to just over onefifth (23 per cent).7
July 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Dr Emma Koivunen
nuffieldtrust.org.uk
🆕 Comparing Census data with 13 million GP records, we've analysed how good general practices are at recording who is an unpaid carer in England.

#Carers from deprived areas and certain ethnic groups are much more likely to be missed by general practices.

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July 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM