There's something in the water at the DWP: Neil Couling, the director general of DWP services, in a blog post now removed, suggested that the victims of the care-payments-claw-back scandal were really themselves to blame for their situation...

These are people whose lives have be ruined while trying to do the right thing for their loved ones, by laziness & cost-cutting at the DWP.

Its an appalling indictment of the inhumanity of our politics

#politics #UnpaidCare

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/06/senior-dwp-civil-servant-blames-victims-for-carers-allowance-scandal

A reminder (from Ed Davey, LibDems) that carers are still be penalised by the DWP when accidentally crossing the income threshold above which all care payments are clawed back... its been many months since this scandal was revealed & the Govt. claimed it would halt the practice... yes the DWP continue to penalised carers.

The grinding mechanisms of bureaucracy are crushing the normal people just trying to do their best by their loved ones.

#politics #UnpaidCare

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/19/penalties-for-unpaid-carers-in-benefits-scandal-must-be-halted-says-ed-davey

🔖 NEW article

Older adults who struggle with daily tasks are more likely to have depressive symptoms, esp. if they experience loneliness or difficulties accessing care, so timely access to #socialcare and tackling loneliness could help later life #mentalhealth

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/hsc/8867042

#ageing #gerontology #socialscience #caring #carers #unpaidcare

CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE will speak about 'The new rush hour of life: Balancing paid and unpaid work in mid-life?' for the Sir Roger Jowell Memorial Lecture 2025 - hosted by City, University of London, the National Centre for Social Research, and The Social Research Association.

Full details and registration: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2025/april/sir-roger-jowell-memorial-lecture-2025

#socialsciences #demography #carers #care #unpaidcare #midlife #employment #retirement #parttime #WorkersRights #flexibleworking #gerontology

If you missed our last #CPCCGWebinar, you can now watch it on YouTube 📺

Watch Klara Raiber discuss research on #unpaidcare, missing links and possible #theoretical and #methodological future pathways.
https://youtu.be/z_wEhgFog88

In no way surprised but still irked that the order of priority for the release of UK #census data has #health, #disability and #unpaidcare at the bottom of a long list, due in Jan 2023

ONS state:

"As our timetable is planned around user need, it is and will remain flexible".

Can't help feeling that this is a metaphor for how low a priority this is for policy makers

The census maps are super cool though https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps