This week is Carers Week, a week where national charities and local groups are recognising the contribution made by the 6.4 million people in the UK who care, unpaid, for ill, frail or disabled friends or family. However, more than most, carers are facing increasingly difficult times.
Category Archives: Carers
Fears grow over funds for carers
Fears grow over funds for carers
Reporter: Andrew Rudkin
Date online: 16 June 2011
Oldham Carers’ Centre manager Miranda Di Blasio has expressed concern that government funds will not reach those who need it most.
As she welcomed local MPs Michael Meacher and Debbie Abrahams to the Phoenix Centre as part of National Carers’ Week, Miranda was at the same time worried that not enough cash would go towards providing breaks for carers.
1 in 71 children is looked after by a kinship carer in Scotland
For too long, there has been a postcode lottery in crucial financial and other support for kinship carers – when will this change?
Holyrood urged to improve support for kinship carers
- SUPPORT: Tam Baillie says that family members need assistance.
ALISON CAMPSIE
16 Jun 2011
AT least 15,000 children are being raised in Scotland by members of their extended family because their natural parents are unfit to care for them, a major new study has found.
Drug and alcohol abuse, domes- tic violence and an increase in prison populations have led to a growing trend for extended family members to step up to the parenting role, with researchers describing an “invisible population” of carers who receive little or no support from the state.
The cuts carers are facing will bring greater costs in the long term
The cuts carers are facing will bring greater costs in the long term
Admissions to hospital and residential care will rise as carers are pushed to breaking point by a lack of support
Tuesday 14 June 2011 12.16 BST
An elderly lady is helped to her chair in a care home in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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