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.
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This cut threatens to push many disabled children back below the poverty line
Parents of disabled children could lose £1,400 in welfare shakeup
Controversial reforms will also cut benefit for 450,000 disabled tenants in social housing, according to leading charity
The welfare reforms will plunge thousands of families below the poverty line, according to the Children’s Society.
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.
Dementia carer in one-man roadshow to raise awareness
Dementia carer in one-man roadshow to raise awareness
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Dementia carer in one-man roadshow to raise awareness Broadcast: June 6 2011
