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"What if we said no?"
— family and friends care | | Corporate Author | Grandparents Plus |
| Publisher | Grandparents Plus, London, 2010 |
| Pages | 25 pp (Survey findings report) |
| Source | Grandparents Plus, 18 Victoria Park Square, London E2 9PF. Website: www.grandparentsplus.org.uk |
| Keywords | Family care ; Friend care ; Grandparents as carers ; Needs [elderly] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | There are estimated to be some 200,000 family and friends carers in the UK looking after around 300,000 children because parents are no longer able to fulfill that role. However, because of a lack of data, family and friend carers are largely invisible to both policy makers and service providers - making them vulnerable to unintended consequences of changes in government policy. 'What if we said no?' is a report of a survey of more than 250 members of the Grandparents Plus organisation's Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Network. The report finds that many family and friend carers are living on low incomes, and are particularly vulnerable to welfare reform and spending cuts. They are also more likely to be in poor health. Almost half are caring for a child with a disability or special needs: many of the children have experienced problems at school. More than nine out of ten family and friends carers responding to the survey are themselves grandparents. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120928205 B |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:SX: P6:SW: IK: 3F |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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