Helping carers to stay in employment would save the Exchequer over a billion pounds a year
Pickard, L.
(2012).
Helping carers to stay in employment would save the Exchequer over a billion pounds a year.
As the future direction of social care hangs in the balance until next year, Linda Pickard highlights the issue of unpaid care in England. She estimates unpaid care costs England £1.3 billion a year. Greater funding for social care, she argues, is the greatest deterrent to this loss of revenue experienced when family or friends leave unemployment to provide care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2012 The Author |
| Departments |
LSE > Research Centres > Care Policy and Evaluation Centre LSE > Research Centres > LSE Health |
| Date Deposited | 13 Feb 2013 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/48620 |
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