Care matters. It is a complex and important issue that affects everyone at some point in their life.
The Centre for Care provides accessible evidence on care to inform changes that could improve the lives of millions of people.
The Centre for Care links experts on care in 5 universities, 3 major charities and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.
Funded as an ESRC Research Centre to address the need for evidence on care that can make a difference, we have built a large research team to co-produce excellent research on care topics that really matter. We work closely with partner organisations in the care sector and people with direct experience of care.
Latest Updates
News and latest content from the Centre for Care
Centre for Care researcher Becky Driscoll provides an update on our recent contributions to government inquiries and committees relevant to social care.
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Join us online for our next seminar on 22nd July with Dr Zhe Yan.
Read More about Seminar: Eldercare Work in Contemporary China: The Nexus of State, Family, and Market
The launch of our unpaid care dashboard is on 11th June 2025.
Read More about Join us for the launch of the Unpaid Care Dashboard!
We are thrilled to announce that QAR-Net Care will be hosting a symposium and an exciting stand at the Transforming Care Conference 2025, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, from June 25–27! If you are attending the conference, feel free to join us for an insightful exploration of the latest research on care inequalities. About the […]
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Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
In recent research carried out at the University of Sheffield, we explored whether children who had a social worker or were in care experienced worse outcomes in the criminal justice system than other children.
Read More about Supporting Vulnerable Children in the UK Care System
For National Children’s Day (UK), Becky Driscoll discusses our research in collaboration with Kinship, highlighting the need to provide further support to kinship carers.
Read More about Time to value kinship carersCentre for Care’s response to House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry.
Read More about Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction
Charlie Grosset explores the recent UK welfare reforms focusing on the emotional, social and financial impact on disabled people.
Read More about Overview of welfare reforms
Explore key topics
Exploring how digital technology, care and caring relationships intersect and interact.
Read moreabout Digital Care: roles, risks, realities and rewards
Improving the social care data and analytical infrastructure.
Read moreabout Care Data InfrastructureOur Research Groups
Here we explore experiences of care at different life stages, when families are geographically dispersed and as people experience different parts of the care system.
Read moreabout Care Trajectories and Constraints
We use statistics and link data to study how socio-economic, health and other inequalities shape experiences of care for groups and individuals in different places and over time.
Read moreabout Inequalities in Care
We study change, innovation and challenges in paid care work: recruitment, organisation, conditions, digitalisation and their effects on job and service quality.
Read moreabout Care Workforce Change
Who we’re working with
The Centre for Care links experts on care in 5 universities, 3 major charities and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.
