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Caring About Equality: Carers Week Report 2025
Created: 18/06/2025
News/Events Category: Carer Support
Millions of people across the UK are providing unpaid care for an ill, older, or disabled family member or friend.
Unpaid carers are providing vital support to our health and social care systems, worth a staggering £184 billion to the UK economy each year. Yet caring can have a profound impact on carers' own lives, and many do not have access to the same opportunities as those without caring responsibilities.
Carers Week charities commissioned Opinium to carry out polling of the general public, including adults who are currently providing unpaid care. This research suggests that millions of unpaid carers face disadvantages in relation to their health, their finances, and their employment.
Key highlights from the report include:
- Over a fifth of people (22%) are currently providing unpaid care, and 46% of people have provided care at some point - either now or in the past
- They estimate 11.9 million people currently provide unpaid care in the UK
- 43% of current and former carers said they had a mental or physical health condition develop or become worse since caring - an estimated 10.7 million people
- Half (50%) of those caring 35 or more hours per week said they have struggled to look after their own health and wellbeing
- A higher proportion of female current and former carers also said they had struggled to look after their health and wellbeing (37%) compared with male current and former carers (27%)
- 43% of current and former carers said that more financial support from the government would help their situation
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