Care fully considered

There are only three types of people in the UK: unpaid carers, soon-to-unpaid carers, and the people requiring the care. It is estimated that 1 in 6 people in the UK will provide unpaid care by 2040. This means you are likely to become one! This is where Care fully considered comes in, co-hosted by Katy and Laura, both unpaid carers, this podcast is about caring, the issues unpaid carers face and how to solve them. Care fully considered aims to inform and entertain you. Each episode, Katy and Laura will be talking to an expert to get their views and explore what can be done to get the change millions of carers across the UK need. Please subscribe to Care fully considered on iTunes, Spotify, Anchor or wherever you get your podcasts.

Care fully considered is a society podcast hosted by Laura Barnes and Katy Styles, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Laura Barnes and Katy Styles hosts Care fully considered, a society show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  Creating Caring Villages

  May 14, 202639 minS1

  <p>In this episode, we speak to Carrie Grant MBE, a campaigner, author, and broadcaster advocating for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Through her own powerful experience, we discuss the fight many parent carers with SEND children face to get their children the support they need and deserve. </p><p>We talk about how crucial it is to create caring villages and communities to make the best out of awful situations, as well as the importance of campaigning at all levels- fuelled by the realisation that change can happen if we act. </p><p>You...

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  Episode #15

  Empath power

  Apr 1, 202633 minS1

  <p>In our latest episode, we speak to Bhulla Beghal, a filmmaker and Carla Mellor, a poet.</p><p>We discuss why empathy is a strength in storytelling, how best to bring out emotion in campaigning projects, and how carers can better share their stories.</p><p>Our conversation covers how these award-winning storytellers immerse themselves in worlds they don't have personal experience of to powerfully extract the underlying truths within.</p><p>You can see more of Bhulla's work here: https://www.bluebellfilms.co.uk/</p><p>He's @bluebellfilms @bhullabeghal on instagram and you can follow him on LinkedIn in here:</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhullabeghal/</p><p>Carla's work can be ...

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  Episode #14

  Bridging the care expectation gap

  Dec 17, 202538 minS1

  <p>In our latest episode, we speak to Taha Bokhari - lead analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - to discuss their report exploring the care expectation gap. </p><p>In our last conversation of 2025, we discuss why most people don't plan for their future, and why the majority of the British public significantly underestimate their future care needs or the fact they will likely have to provide care at some point in their lives. We cover why this gap in expectations versus reality is an issue, what we can all do to remedy it, and why taking time to pro...

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  Episode #13

  Time, Risk and Poo

  Nov 11, 202548 minS1

  <p>We have a very special guest for the first episode of season two...drumroll please...we're speaking to Sir Ed Davey! He is the Liberal Democrat MP for Kingston and Surbiton, leader of the Liberal Democrats - and importantly for us - a carer and recent author of a book called ‘Why I care: And why care matters’.</p><p>Our wide ranging conversation covers his ongoing carer journey, what it has taught him, and the concept of radical honesty in politics.</p><p>We talk about why he doesn't like the term 'unpaid carer' and why he thinks a ca...

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  Episode #12

  Misery Olympics - fixing unpaid carers' PR problem

  Sep 2, 202535 minS1

  <p>In our latest episode of Care Fully Considered, we welcome Minreet Kaur and Sangeeta Bhabra, both journalists, to talk about caring’s PR problem.</p><p>We discuss how unpaid carers are portrayed by the media, why some of it is problematic, and what we can do to improve the general public’s perception of unpaid carers and caring in general.</p><p>We talk about why the press chooses to portray caring in certain ways, what the best format could be for more well-rounded representation, and how to move beyond the ‘misery Olympics’ we often see in campaigns and on T...

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