Annual Report 2023 - CASEreport 153

My study – and PhD thesis – sought to address this research and policy gap by investigating the extent and nature of unmet need for social care services in England from the perspective of unpaid carers, the reasons for this support gap and some of the consequences. [...] In conclusion, there are inequalities in who receives support in the form of social care services and in the impacts of unmet need for services on carers, meaning the issue of unmet need has potential to affect a large proportion of the population and to compound existing disadvantages. [...] Going forward, it will be critical to adopt a more rounded approach to unmet need that takes account of the needs of carers as well as the needs of disabled and older people with care needs in assessing the extent, nature and impacts of unmet need and in looking for the solutions. [...] The order these events happen also has changed with transitions becoming increasingly more diverse, disrupted and de-linearized.¹, ² A number of societal, economic and cultural shifts contributed to this change, including the expansion and privatisation of higher education, high youth unemployment rates, the greater instability and casualisation of the youth labour market, and the rise in housing. [...] L011719/1) and a COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant (ES/ V012657/1), the LSE International Inequalities Institute AFSEE Further information COVID-19 fund and the Leverhulme Trust Liz Mann is a CASE Associate and a Research Officer in the For more information about the Wealth Tax Commission and Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics the debates mentioned in this article visit ukwealth.