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The needs and experiences of young carers in the UK
- Author:
- DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 148, July 1998, pp.15-16.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Reports on the key findings of the survey, 'Young Carers in the United Kingdom: a Profile', funded by the Calouste Gulbekian Foundation.
Low income households: casualties of the boom, casualties of the bust?
- Authors:
- WHITFIELD Grahame, DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 11(1), January 2012, pp.81-91.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article reflects on research undertaken with low income households over a 12 month period. Fieldwork took place in 2008-9, a period of rapid financial change in which the ‘credit crunch’ ended a period of boom and triggered a period of bust. The aims of the research were to investigate the factors that make households vulnerable to debt, what triggers debt, the impact of debt, and how over-indebted people manage their debts and how they get out of debt. The research involved 2-monthly interviews with 57 people of working age from low income households in the Midlands (Derby, Leicester, and Nottingham). The research did not find a picture of profligate use of credit to acquire a high materialistic standard of living. The use of credit and the acquisition of debt was a function of persistent low levels of income, exacerbated by repeated moves between work and welfare dependency. The article argues that people living on persistent low incomes were casualties of the economic boom as they did not benefit from economic growth and of the bust in that they most keenly felt the impact of the recession and the reaction of financial institutions to the new financial landscape.
Young carers in the UK: the 2004 report
- Authors:
- DEARDEN Chris, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Carers UK
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The 2004 Report is based on data collected from 87 projects concerning a total of 6,178 young carers – the largest survey of its kind. 56% of the sample are girls, 44% are boys. The average age is 12. 84% of the sample is white; the largest minority group being African Caribbean. 56% of young carers are living in lone parent families. Two thirds of the young carers provide domestic help in the home; 48% provide general and nursing-type care; 82% provide emotional support and supervision; 18% provide intimate personal care and 11% also provide child care. The recognised incidence of emotional support has increased dramatically since 1997. Intimate care is most commonly provided where the person with care needs has a physical health problem or disability. Emotional support is far more common where the person has mental health problems. One in ten young carers is caring for more than one person. Overall, girls are more involved in all types of caring tasks, especially as they get older. The overall incidence of missed school and educational difficulties has reduced, decreasing between 1995 and 1997 and again between 1997 and 2003. However, 27% of all young carers of secondary school-age are experiencing some problems, and the equivalent proportion of young carers of primary school age is 13%. 18% of young carers have been assessed, an improvement on 1997. One third (36%) of young carers had been caring for 2 years or less; 44% for 3-5 years; 18% for 6-10 years and 3% for over 10 years. One fifth of young carers and their families receive no other support except for their contact with a specialist young carers project. Social Services support is the most common external service received.
Carers
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 18, October 2004, pp.11-18.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Summarises 'Young carers in the UK', the report of the 3rd national survey of this group who are supported by specialist services. Describes their tasks, the support - or lack of it - on which they can draw and the effects the duties can have on their education. Lists points for practice and key points.
Young carers and education
- Authors:
- DEARDEN Chris, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Carers UK
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Common factors in all definitions of young carers are that they are children, i.e. under the age of 18 and therefore considered to be the dependants of adults; that they undertake significant caring tasks, i.e. tasks that are important; and that these tasks would usually be associated with and performed by adults. Thus, young carers are not children who happen to have an ill or disabled parent, sibling, grandparent or other relative, but are children who provide a significant, often inappropriate (for their age), level of care to that relative. Most children with disabled relatives will not be young carers because their families will have adequate support services from private, statutory and voluntary agencies and from other informal sources such as wider family members and friends.
Young carers' transitions to adulthood
- Authors:
- DEARDEN Chris, BECKER Saul
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 167, June 2000, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Reports on recent research by the Young Carers Research Group which examines the experiences of young people between the ages of 16-25 who were caring for parents with long-term illness or disability. The focus of this research was on the ways in which caring influenced transitions into adulthood. Areas investigated were family structure and the nature of parental illness/disability; education, training and employment; income and benefits; receipt of and experiences of services; housing, leaving home and family separations; and becoming an adult.
What does it cost?
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.6.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A new study set out to explore how young people's experience of caring for ill or disabled family members affected their lives in the future. The authors explain their findings.
The experience of young carers in the UK: the mental health issues
- Authors:
- DEARDEN Chris, BECKER Saul
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(8), April 1999, pp.273-276.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The recent publication of a national carers strategy reflects increasing awareness of the burden of informal care on relatives of people with a disability or long-term health problem. This article examines the experiences of young carers in general, and of those caring for a parent or sibling with a mental health problem or learning disability.
Unknown quantity
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.5.98, 1998, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how there are now about 100 young carers projects around the country, but the needs of many young carers are still unknown and unmet. This is because despite the introduction of the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995, they are yet to be assessed.
Young carers in the United Kingdom: a profile
- Authors:
- DEARDEN Chris, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Carers National Association
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 105p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study presenting a comprehensive profile of young carers in the UK. Looks at statistics on young carers and uses case studies and quotes from interviews with twenty-two young people to illustrate the issues involved. Concludes with a detailed discussion of the findings of the research and their implications for policy and practice.