Social Security Experience Panels: Seldom Heard research programme: carers and care experienced people - visual summary

This visual summary outlines the main findings of the first wave of research with carers and care experienced people as part of the ‘Seldom Heard Voices’ research programme.

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About the research

For each of the four groups, two stages of research are being carried out. This summary sets out the findings from the first stage of research with Carers and Care Experienced people.

The Carers and Care experienced group includes the following:

  • Care experienced people
  • Single parents
  • Kinship, foster cares and adoptive parents
  • Young parents

The research included an online survey with 59 respondents, and focus groups and interviews with 95 research participants.

  • 16 Individual interviews
  • 12 Focus groups
  • 59 Survey responses

The research took place in Oct 2019 - Nov 2019

The research explored views on:

  • Finding out about benefits
  • Applying for benefits
  • Interacting with government agencies and organisations
  • Preferences for Scotland’s Social Security system in the future

Contact

Email: Silvia.Soriano-rivera@gov.scot

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