Carers UK is an organisation of carers - people looking after an older or disabled family member or friend. We provide information, give carers a voice and campaign to improve recognition and support for carers.
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- Carers Rights Day
United Kingdom
Friday, December 4 at 6:00am
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Carers Poverty Protest 2009Created about 7 months ago
Carers lobby December 2008Created about 10 months ago
Alex Sharpe
On a very lighter note and away from caring I thought this would amuse..http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/925734/
Alex Sharpe
Devon and Cornwall Police admit to this family being targeted because of the lady whom died son had a disablity..yet denied that they were being bullied and that did they do NOTHING......WHY???? Tones again of the Fiona Pilkington case!!!! So much for equal rights etc!!!
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?
Source: news.uk.msn.com
Police are treating the death of a woman in a house fire sparked by a firework as murder, and warned the culprits that they will be caught. - Police MSN News - MSN UK
Rosemary
When Love is not enough http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl
Programme to watch Monday night
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
It's the hardest job in the world, but parents caring for disabled children face a shameful lack of support. And, says ROSA MONCKTON, whose daughter has Down's, it's driving some to breaking point - and even murder.
Source: carerspovertyalliance.com
Carers Poverty Alliance has grown from the Carer Poverty Protest in which many Carer Groups worked together towards a single goal.
Jayson Lowery
WELFARE REFORM and free elderley care: Am i wrong ?-but my impression is that no full time free care in the home exists. For one doesnt your DLA care component be surrenderd? Two-the social services only visit 4 times a day for 20 minutes on a car round. Three-they would force the disa-elderley person to go to a local ......day care centre-THATS NOT FREE CARE IN THE HOME??. Let me know anyway, i've not tried social services, i was wondering bout it and the scrapping of the att allowance too in the bill.Read More
Alex Sharpe
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?
Yet another Carer let down by the police, like me and my family Hounded by little more than muderers after years of torment!!! How many more people (carers and there families) have to have headlines like this ...this is the second in a matter of months...To...o start with they want to Ban fireworks to organized event only...and What do the Goverment do...nothing!!! The Police see vunerable people whom are in need of help to fight this SICKING sport as a nuisance. Instead they would sooner sit in a layby doing motorists.Read More
Yet another Carer let down by the police, like me and my family Hounded by little more than muderers after years of torment!!! How many more people (carers and there families) have to have headlines like this ...this is the second in a matter of months...To...o start with they want to Ban fireworks to organized event only...and What do the Goverment do...nothing!!! The Police see vunerable people whom are in need of help to fight this SICKING sport as a nuisance. Instead they would sooner sit in a layby doing motorists.Read More
Source: news.uk.msn.com
Police have launched a murder hunt after a devoted mother of nine died saving her son from a house fire started by a firework pushed through her letteMSN News - MSN UK
Jayson Lowery Carers unhappy about current policy and WELFARE REFORM should consult the Public themselves and collect own pay. (IT WORKS)The Gov't never consulted us about paying Northern Rock employees-the Govt are the anarchists. A carer once suggested a Foster Parent type system for paying carers.
Carers UK Carers UK welcomes the decision from Gillian Merron, Public Health Miniser to make carers a priority group for the H1N1 vaccination. We received a letter from the Minister stating, "... people and carers living in close contact with individuals whose immune systems may be compromised due to disease, or treatment such as chemotherapy" will be the first to be vaccinated with the H1N1 swine flu vaccine".
Rosemary
Please add your support
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/TellItR
Petition to: provide high quality information after diagnosis of a condition like Down's syndrome. |
Source: petitions.number10.gov.uk
After diagnosis of a condition such as Down’s syndrome, parents need high quality information. Accu...
Angela
Hi all wonder if you can help ... i was getting income suport until my claim was stopped and so i have had to reclaim, while at the Jobcentre the lady said i should also reclaim carers as well, when i called carers allowance he told me 'I had never had it' when i asked why he said its was because i was on 'Incapacity ...Benefit' fair enough he then asked when i come off ....i have not been on it for 4 years !
Any advice what i can do ?Read More
Any advice what i can do ?Read More
Carers UK
Carers are increasingly having to fill the gap left by inadequate services. That's the finding from charity Leonard Cheshire who have survey disabled people. They found charges, poverty and tightening eligibility mean fewer disabled people are accessing care with services concentrating on those with higher needs. Have ...you been affected by reduced services? Carers UK is calling for investment in care services - without carers our care system would collapse and without action now it is set to get worse with the numbers of people requiring care increasing with an ageing population. More here
http://www.carersuk.org/Newsandcampaigns
http://www.carersuk.org/Newsandcampaigns
Source: www.carersuk.org
Take part in the government debate about the future of social care in the UK
Angela Sampson
I have been caring for my husband for 15 years and since we moved to a more suitable accommodation and downsized our home we have had to come off income support and are now in Poverty.... I think that it is unacceptable that we are unable to heat our home and carry out normal social activities due to lack of finance. ... The quality of our life has declined and I see no improvement in sight only more worry and distress ahead. Bailing out the banks - rubbish - what about bailing our Carers who give up all there time to care for a loved one.....Read More
Carers UK
Over 3,000 people and organisations have signed our Carers Poverty Charter. Carers are saying loud and clear that Carer's Allowance at just £53.10 a week is a disgrace. In return for saving the UK £87 billion, carers get the equivalent of £1.52 an hour - far short of the national minimum wage of £5.73 per hour. I...t's... not too late to add your name. Go here
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0
Source: www.surveymonkey.com
We, the undersigned, call for an end to carer poverty.In the National Strategy for Carers the government pledged that, by 2018 'carers will be supported so that they are not forced into financial hardship by their caring role.'Carers cannot wait. ...
Carers UK According to the 2001 National Census 1.25 million people provide over 50 hours of care per week
