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'Replacement care' for working carers?
— A longitudinal study in England, 2013-15 | | Author(s) | Linda Pickard, Nicola Brimblecombe, Derek King, Martin Knapp |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 52, no 3, May 2018 |
| Publisher | Wiley, May 2018 |
| Pages | pp 690-709 |
| Source | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/spol.12345 |
| Keywords | Employees ; Family care ; Informal care ; Services ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | In the context of rising need for long-term care, reconciling unpaid care and carers' employment is becoming an important social issue. In England, there is increasing policy emphasis on paid services for the person cared for, sometimes known as `replacement care', to support working carers. Previous research has found an association between `replacement care' and carers' employment. However more information is needed on potential causal connections between services and carers' employment. This mixed methods study drew on new longitudinal data to examine service receipt and carers' employment in England. Data were collected from carers who were employed in the public sector, using self-completion questionnaires in 2013 and 2015, and qualitative interviews were conducted with a sub-sample of respondents to the 2015 questionnaire. It was found that, where the person cared for did not receive at least one `key service' (home care, personal assistant, day care, meals, short-term breaks), the carer was subsequently more likely to leave employment because of caring, suggesting that the absence of services contributed to the carer leaving work. In the interviews, carers identified specific ways in which services helped them to remain in employment. The study concludes that if a policy objective is to reduce the number of carers leaving employment because of caring, there needs to be greater access to publicly-funded services for disabled and older people who are looked after by unpaid carers. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180504212 A |
| Classmark | WK: P6:SJ: P6: I: 3J: 82 |
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