Unpaid Carers Lived Experience of the Welsh Carers Charter

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Unpaid Carers Lived Experience of the Welsh Carer's Charter through a collaboration of carers and professionals.

  • IRAS ID

    330477

  • Contact name

    Marie Davies

  • Contact email

    Marie.Davies7@wales.nhs.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Powys Teaching Health Board

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 11 months, 31 days

  • Research summary

    The project explores, with unpaid carers and professionals, the lived experience of receiving care articulated in the Welsh Carers Charter (Welsh Government 2022), for example in having access to a carers assessment.

    Specifically the project will examine the impact of the new Unpaid Carer’s Charter and ask whether through an articulation of rights it provides a comprehensive offer of health and social care to carers and explores whether this can be shown in the lived experience of unpaid carers and if relationships between carers and professionals provide barriers or enhance the available support on offer?

    Here the 'lived experience' refers to the "Personal knowledge about the world gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events rather than through representations constructed by other people" as defined by the Oxford Dictionary.


  • REC name

    London - City & East Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    24/PR/0454

  • Date of REC Opinion

    23 Apr 2024

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion