Carers UK’s annual State of Caring survey looks into the impact that caring for ill, frail or disabled relatives can have on carers’ finances, health and ability to live their own lives. By sharing your views and experiences, you can help them expose how hard it can be to care and and what needs to change to make carers’ lives better.

The survey should take between 15 and 30 minutes to complete  depending on the detail of information you wish to provide and will bring together and update a variety of different pieces of research Carers UK has done in previous years to get an up to date picture of caring in 2014.

If you have had a particularly good experience and received support that has made a real difference to you, or have had particularly bad experiences, they would like to know.