

Maria Petrillo
205 posts

@MPetrillo25
Research Associate at @sheffielduni @CentreForCare | PhD: @sheffeconomics @CVER_LSE. Labour, education and gender economics.




The social care system in England is broken. We're calling on Government to measure the cost of inaction on reforming the current system and see the sector's wider potential. Read the report: committees.parliament.uk/committee/81/h…






Tomorrow, 9:30am 🕤 We're holding the final evidence session of our inquiry into the cost of inaction on adult social care reform We'll be hearing directly from unpaid carers, and gathering expertise from @MPetrillo25 @CentreForCare and @age_uk 🔗 in the comments.



£12 million a day. That’s the amount Kinship carers save the government by taking in children who would otherwise be in foster care. But 1 in 8 carers are facing the possibility they can’t continue care. Read about the research which is calling on the UK government to equalise support between kinship families, and foster and adoptive families: sheffield.ac.uk/news/kinship-c…






Join our team! We are seeking a paid intern to offer technical assistance for a maximum of one day a week to help and support QAR-Net Care! Follow the link below to learn more and apply, please share! centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2025/0…

We thank Baroness Pitkeathley for raising the findings from the research report that we launched this morning to mark #CarersRightsDay in the @UKHouseofLords. The value of carers' support is now estimated to be a staggering £184 billion a year - go.carersuk.org/ValuingCarers?…






'The study’s findings underscore the pressing need to develop more effective support systems for #unpaidcarers and the people they support.' Read a new study by the Centre for Care team researching inequalities in care: centreforcare.ac.uk/commentary/202… #CarersRightsDay #socialcare
