{"id":22852,"date":"2019-02-12T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashirecarelibraryblog.com\/?p=22852"},"modified":"2019-02-12T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:00:16","slug":"juggling-work-and-unpaid-care-a-growing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/02\/12\/juggling-work-and-unpaid-care-a-growing-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Juggling work and unpaid care: a growing issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carers UK, February 2019<\/strong><br \/>\nThe report finds that 2.6 million people in\u00a0the UK\u00a0have quit their job to care for a loved one who is older, disabled or seriously ill, with nearly half a million (468,000) leaving their job in the last two years alone.\u00a0 The report findings also show that more people are caring than previously thought, with almost 5 million workers now juggling their paid job with caring \u2013 a dramatic rise compared with Census 2011 figures of 3 million.\u00a0 The report\u00a0recommends that\u00a0employers support staff with caring responsibilities to stay in the workforce through flexible working arrangements and increased Carers&#8217; leave.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carersuk.org\/images\/News_and_campaigns\/Juggling_work_and_unpaid_care_report_final_0119_WEB.pdf?utm_source=The%20King%27s%20Fund%20newsletters%20%28main%20account%29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=10250253_NEWSL_HMP%202019-02-05&amp;dm_i=21A8,63P59,ITDDXX,O045T,1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to view the full report.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carers UK, February 2019 The report finds that 2.6 million people in\u00a0the UK\u00a0have quit their job to care for a loved one who is older, disabled or seriously ill, with nearly half a million (468,000) leaving their job in the last two years alone.\u00a0 The report findings also show that more people are caring than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/02\/12\/juggling-work-and-unpaid-care-a-growing-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Juggling work and unpaid care: a growing issue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}