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This week for #CarersWeek, we’ll be thinking about #whatworks in supporting young adult carers – and what still needs to be done.👇
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Young adult carers are young people aged 16–24 who provide unpaid care to someone, usually a family member, on a regular basis.
🔎 The 2021 Census identified 272,731 young adult carers in England and Wales...
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🔎 The 2021 Census identified 272,731 young adult carers in England and Wales...
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... However, the real number of young adult carers is likely to be much higher, as many do not always consider themselves to be carers or are worried about disclosing their caring role.
Around 37,000 young people provide over 50 hours of care each week. ⏰
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Around 37,000 young people provide over 50 hours of care each week. ⏰
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This piece for @HEPI_news by @Cis4Community (Beka Avery, Pathways to HE) is a really excellent dissection of some of the problems with HE outreach and the mismatch of priorities between unis and schools/colleges. hepi.ac.uk/2020/01/02/lif…
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@HEPI_news @Cis4Community This is largely down to a lack of joined-up government in DfE over #CareersEducation and #SocialMobility – a failure to think through how conflicting incentives play out in reality.
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@HEPI_news @Cis4Community There’s a fundamental dilemma at the heart of #HEaccess: to be a fairer society, we want more disadvantaged people entering HE, but it is unethical and sanctimonious to attempt to tell any individual what choices they should make.
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Wow. I found a donor trying to give >£1m to delivery work in a certain sector. I also found*, and told them, that there's very little evidence about 'what works' in that sector. So they can't reliably fund delivery b/c nobody knows what to deliver. They'd better fund production…
2/ of research about what to deliver (& how). I connected them to some researchers. Now, 3 months later, they're starting a partnership to produce effective #research in that sector.
That entire intervention only took me about 2 hours. Rescued >£1m from almost certain fail.
That entire intervention only took me about 2 hours. Rescued >£1m from almost certain fail.
3/ See: get your philanthro-advice from me: I know my game ;-)
*by using a @3ieNews evidence & gap map. (Which are a public good and hence hard to fund, but useful & consequential.)
#philanthropy #impact #research #charity #giving #evidence #whatworks
*by using a @3ieNews evidence & gap map. (Which are a public good and hence hard to fund, but useful & consequential.)
#philanthropy #impact #research #charity #giving #evidence #whatworks
