Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctor’s appointment after your shift or helping your neighbour with their shopping,  we all want to care and be cared for.

But in the economy we have, unpaid carers, disabled people and single parents all are more likely to experience poverty than others. Millions who care – whether paid or unpaid – are struggling to survive and left alone to worry about how to care for others whilst looking after themselves.

Together, we need a social security system that values all the different ways we care for each other, ways of working that allow us to put care first when we need to and incentives in our economy to design policies that put people before profit.

Our new report outlines how we can achieve this by working together. Rather than separating out the care we give into groups and policies, we believe there is a need to collaborate.

Learning from and with lived experience led movements in the UK, we make the case for care solidarity as the route to the truly transformative change needed to centre care in our lives.

Because we all have care in common, so let’s start with that.

Read our new report below. If you’re interested in working with us to build a care solidarity movement around care, get in touch: hello@carefull.uk.

Illustration: bexgilbert.com