My The Guardian story: DWP blocked whistleblower giving evidence to carer’s allowance review theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Please read and RT. ⬇️

Understanding parenthood and being a parent carer can be challenging. During #NationalStoryTellingWeek, we're highlighting carers' stories, like Lisa's. Hear her full story on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par… Available on all your usual platforms.

Spotlight on another storyteller and carer for #NationalStorytellingWeek: Laura from NumberEighteenInTheCorner. You might recognise her blog work. Explore all her writings here: numbereighteeninthecorner.blog #Storytelling

Want to know what life as a carer is really like? 🎧 Tune into our podcast, "Care Fully Considered" for firsthand stories that inspire and challenge. On all your usual platforms podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/car… If these stories resonate, join us actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-…

#journorequest PR & Journo Requests Looking to speak to unpaid carers who feel they are unheard and unseen and those who are sole carers. I’d like to raise awareness on the challenges carers face on a daily basis and highlight the support they need. Please email [email protected]

This is a very moving post from @dementiawho If you’ve been following her posts and blogs you will want to read this one. #NationalStorytellingWeek

Carers UK Carers Leeds Carers Trust Kate Garraway We Care Campaign Claire Turner why’s carers allowance taken from carers when caring for a relative in hospital? Many complex needs adults can’t be left & rely on their carer 24 hrs a day. Hospital cannot & do not provide that care

The DfE is consulting about revisions to school guidance on using "reasonable force and other restrictive interventions", and ways to "proactively minimise" its use. From September all "significant" use must be recorded and reported to the child's parents. consult.education.gov.uk/behaviour-unit…

Imagine being an unpaid carer going into hospital caring 12 + hrs a day for 5 wks, fearing your benefits will stop & there’s nothing you can do about it Then carers Leeds ask if you want some food vouchers sent because you’ve lost over £500, yet u provided 5 wks of non stop care

Grandma is 100 today! Thoughts on what got her this far here: numbereighteeninthecorner.blog/2025/02/07/com… #birthday #centenarian #unpaidcarers Age UK We Care Campaign Carers UK

Loving this for Grandma today! Happy birthday 🥰🎉🥳🎂🎁

Here’s the evidence, not just a visitor having to stick to visiting hours but an unpaid carer at hospital providing care 12 + hours a day, staying overnight. as the hospital don’t have the staff or the skill Why is my allowance stopped Keir Starmer Department for Work and Pensions Wes Streeting

We had a meeting with Nick Andrews from Swansea University yesterday and he has kindly shared with us a tool that can help unpaid carers create a list of talking point on what is important to them prior to having a carers needs assessment. Link below: dropbox.com/scl/fi/n3bpqfn…

If you've experienced difficulty visiting or caring for someone in health or social care over the last year, please complete the Rights for Residents survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

➡️Carer Equality 📋Motion Amendment- insert: ‘; and further calls on the Executive to adopt a ⭐️cross-departmental approach⭐️ to provide wider support to unpaid carers, including through the provision of paid carer’s leave from work, ➕🔴adequate access to respite services.’🔴

Our ‘powerful protest’ was just mentioned in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting Thank you Jess Brown-Fuller MP MP for bringing this issue to the conversation. #ProtestFromHome