Combining work and caring report
The national independent Taskforce on Care Costs (TOCC) has released its 2007 report – ‘The hidden face of care: Combining work and caring responsibilities for the aged and people with a disability’.
The report says carers are marginalised: they are far less likely to participate in the paid workforce, and at a level commensurate with their skills and qualifications.
The taskforce says that as well as being patently inequitable, this is an immediate and growing threat to Australia’s continued economic prosperity.
The work–care dynamic matters for all Australians, the taskforce says.
One in four Australians surveyed expect to care for an aged person and/or a person with a disability in the next five years.