Carers

Unpaid carers experience various health inequalities compared with the general population, particularly emotional and mental health problems. Most of us will become a carer at some point in our lives. In 2011, 151,777 people in Kent were providing unpaid care (10.4%).

Our resources

Library services

The Public Health and Social Care Library can provide access to library and knowledge services, including books and journal articles relating to carers. We can also produce bespoke literature searches.

Requests

If you can't find what you were looking for, we complete over 200 ad-hoc requests for analysis each year. Request further analysis or a literature search or contact us.

External resources

A number of organisations produce statistics relating to carers, both at national and local level.

Carers UK have published a digest and analysis of all the major research and statistics about carers in the UK.
NHS Digital publish findings from the Survey of Adult Carers in England (SACE), as well as local outcome measures for carers within the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF).
The KCC 2011 Census Summary Profiles contain local prevalence data.