We are pleased to share the publication of “Young Carers’ Minimum Support Standards and Child Participation” (Deliverable D2.2), developed under the OUR VOICES project (CERV-2024-CHILD) This comprehensive document sets out essential standards for recognising, supporting and ensuring the meaningful participation…
Eurocarers is pleased to share news of an upcoming book by Professor Sue Yeandle (CIRCLE, UK), which will explore the emergence, development and global impact of carers’ organisations over the past six decades. The book, entitled Carers’ Organisations and their…
The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research recently published an interesting policy brief on informal carer policy in well-developed LTC systems. Informal carers face a range of challenges, and many countries have introduced policy measures to directly support…
Our colleagues from the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research just published a report on the challenges in supporting informal carers. This report, which has been commissioned by the Swedish Ministry for Health and Social Affairs, analyses how…
Our UK colleagues from Carers Trust just shared an important report from inside Parliament which lays bare the devastating impact of caring responsibilities on the future prospects of hundreds of thousands of young people across the UK. The report has…
Dr. Maxine Watkins and Dr. Louise Overton report on the first study to apply subjective notions of financial wellbeing directly to the experience of care and caring and with an emphasis on capturing and understanding changes in carers’ financial lives…
Carers are much more likely than the UK population as a whole to be living in cold, unheated accommodation. This is the stark finding of Running on Empty, a new report based on extensive analysis of datasets studying the income,…
Carers Trust published research on the economic impact of carers being locked out of work when they are not supported via social care or employability programmes. The findings of the Hidden Cost of Unpaid Care report showed: The total lost…
Eurocarers welcomes the German initiative of wir pflegen e.V. to translate the position paper "Integrating migrant care into European and national long-term care strategies“ into German and producing it as an attractive document in print for use in German-speaking countries…
Looking for EU grants or funding opportunities? ‘EU funding & me’ is a new mobile application from the European Commission designed to make it easier to access information about EU funding. Fully linked to the EU Funding & Tenders Portal,…
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