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Chapter 12: When the Rota Needs Revisiting

6 sources. Checked September 2026.

Every claim in this chapter is traced to the source behind it. Below is each one, numbered as it appears in the book, with a link that opens the original.

  1. Carers UK, The Tipping Point: When unpaid carers can no longer combine work and care (2026), based on the State of Caring 2025 survey of over 10,500 unpaid carers (carersuk.org, read directly): 47% of working carers say they have considered reducing their hours or leaving work altogether because of their caring responsibilities.
    www.carersuk.org/reports/the-tipping-point-when-unpaid-carers-can-no-longer-combine-work-and-care
  2. Carers UK, in partnership with Age UK, Carers Trust, Independent Age, MND Association, Motor Neurone Disease Association and the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Carers Week 2023 research (YouGov poll, published June 2023, carers.org, read directly): 73% of people who currently provide, or have provided, unpaid care have never identified as or called themselves a carer, representing an estimated 19 million people across the UK. Barriers to identification cited include people viewing themselves primarily as a family member rather than a carer, and the gradual, undecided way a caring role tends to form.
    carers.org/downloads/carers-week-report-2023.pdf
  3. Carers UK, State of Caring 2025 survey (over 10,500 unpaid carers, published via Carers UK press release, 21 October 2025, carersuk.org, read directly): 52% of carers say the number of hours they spend caring each week has risen in the last year.
    www.carersuk.org/press-releases/unpaid-carers-are-increasingly-caring-for-longer-hours-each-week-facing-mounting-personal-costs-as-a-result-of-growing-caring-responsibilities
  4. Care Act 2014, s. 27(4) (legislation.gov.uk PDF, read directly): where a local authority is satisfied that circumstances have changed in a way that affects a care and support plan or a support plan, it must, to the extent it thinks appropriate, carry out a needs or carer's assessment and a financial assessment, and revise the plan accordingly.
    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/27
  5. Care Act 2014, s. 10(1) and (3) (legislation.gov.uk PDF, read directly, first verified in the chapter on the assessment that's actually about you): a "carer" is defined simply as an adult who provides or intends to provide care for another adult. Where it appears to a local authority that a carer may have needs for support, the authority must carry out a carer's assessment. That duty applies regardless of the authority's view of the carer's level of need, and regardless of any family agreement about the carer's role.
    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/10
  6. Care Act 2014, s. 27(1), (2) and (3) (legislation.gov.uk PDF, read directly): a local authority must keep care and support plans and support plans under review generally, and must review a plan on a reasonable request by or on behalf of the adult or the carer. Where the authority revises a care and support plan, it must involve the adult and any carer the adult has; where it revises a support plan, it must involve the carer to whom the plan relates.
    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/27

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