#carers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carers, aggregated by home.social.
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Could this radical idea transform social care in the UK? | Letters
By Guardian StaffReaders respond to Paul Sagar’s article suggesting a ‘Care First’ year for students in exchange for 50% off university fees
#Socialcare #Society #AndyBurnham #Politics #Welfare #Carers #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Caregiver creep: how helping elderly relatives can snowball into a full-time job
By Laura HouseAssisting an ageing loved one can start with small tasks but may lead to full-time caregiving that requires more support
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/aug/31/caregiver-creep-caring-elderly-relatives
#Wellactually #Ageing #Carers #Health #Socialcare #Society #TheGuardian #LauraHouse
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Family of NDIS client who died after serious neglect shares heartbreak
By Bethanie AldersonThe uncle of Adelaide woman Ann Marie Smith, who died from severe neglect, has told a court he hopes his nightmares "frequent" the directors of her former NDIS provider.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/ann-marie-smith-family-suffer-heartbreak-daily/107071054
#Courts #PeopleWithDisability #SupportServices #Carers #BethanieAlderson
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Why can't clinicians override inaccurate algorithm decisions?
By Anne ConnollyIf the government wants a true indication of the level of feeling in the community, perhaps it should read the thousands of comments on Facebook where discussions about the algorithm, long waitlists, and people dying are growing by the day.
#AgedCare #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #RoyalCommissions #Health #CommunityandSociety #OlderPeople #Carers #LawCrimeandJustice #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AnneConnolly
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Additional grandparenting admin accomplished in the last 10 days...
Organised initial appointments for the wee one for:
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ADHD/AutismTeams meetings with:
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Kinship assessmentPhoned Centrelink:
Child Care Subsidy has the 3yo attending primary school??? (different rate) - now fixedEmailing CYF multiple times to keep them updated as required
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Criminal neglect charges dropped against NDIS provider's directors over client's death
By Eva BlandisCriminal neglect offences have been dropped against the directors of a former NDIS provider Integrity Care charged over the death of their client Ann Marie Smith.
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Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/aug/11/matilda-davis-mother-suicide-carer-broken-social-care-system-england #Carers #SocialCare #ParentsAndParenting #Disability #Society #ChildrensHealth #MentalHealth #UkNews
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Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system
By Josh HallidayParent-carers of disabled children are exposed to chronic levels of extreme stress and often reach crisis point before help is available – then they face a ‘fight for basic support’, experts say. This is Matilda Davis’s story
#Carers #Socialcare #Parentsandparenting #Disability #Society #Childrenshealth #Mentalhealth #UKnews #TheGuardian #JoshHalliday
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Yarning circles raise concerns about repetition of Stolen Generations
By Jodie HamiltonA research project is using yarning circles to hear community-based solutions to the rising number of Aboriginal children in child protection.
#Children #ChildAbuse #ParentingChildren #Welfare #IndigenousCulture #Carers #JodieHamilton
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What if older people refuse help outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform | Emily Kenway
By Emily KenwayMany fear losing their independence if they agree to care workers looking after them. Any social care review must take this on board
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/04/older-people-help-family-care-reform
#Carers #Careworkers #Socialcare #Ageing #Society #UKnews #TheGuardian #EmilyKenway
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Family shocked by aged care system's complexity demands overhaul
By Adrienne FrancisVal Cupitt's family are calling for a more streamlined system to apply for aged care, after spending months navigating it to find her a place to call home.
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My generation shouldn’t be scared of a care tax – we’re paying one already | Gaby Hinsliff
By Gaby HinsliffIf Andy Burnham is minded to grasp the nettle, he will need to sell it to people like me. The right will call it a ‘death tax’ – why not a levy for ageing well?
#Socialcare #Society #Carers #AndyBurnham #Inheritancetax #Politics #UKnews #Alzheimers #Taxandspending #TheGuardian #GabyHinsliff
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Spouses of people with dementia have higher risk themselves, study finds
By Paige CockburnHaving a spouse with dementia puts you at a higher risk of developing the condition, a new study finds.
#AlzheimersandDementia #Health #Aging #OlderPeople #Carers #PaigeCockburn
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Legal action dropped against Ann Marie Smith's NDIS provider
By Stephanie RichardsFederal Court proceedings have been dropped against the former company responsible for caring for South Australian woman Ann Marie Smith, who died six years ago.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/integrity-care-federal-court-proceedings-dropped/106914618
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'I started around the age of seven': The realities of being a young carer
By Amy SheehanKenny and Naomi were both younger than 10 when they became carers for family members.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/what-its-like-as-a-young-carer/106891386
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How do you give Britain’s hidden army of young carers a break? | Is Mum OK? Documentary
By Rosie Morris, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Ekaterina Ochagavia and Lindsay PoultonAiden is an unforgettable young caregiver in Walthamstow, east London, who has been looking after his mum for over half his life. Every few weeks, Aiden and other young carers get a rare night off thanks to tenacious council worker Satvinder, who fights to improve the recognition of young carers in her borough. This film joins them as they reclaim a few hours of their teenage lives back.
#Society #Carers #UKnews #London #Schools #Education #Schoolattendanceandabsence #Socialcare #Documentaryfilms #Documentary #Film #TheGuardian #RosieMorris #RebeccaMarkLawson #EkaterinaOchagavia #LindsayPoulton
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The unpaid carer’s allowance plan to avoid unfair ‘cliff edge’
The #disability minister has backed scrapping the 'old-fashioned' cliff edge for unpaid #carers and introducing a new 'taper' system
https://inews.co.uk/news/unpaid-carers-allowance-could-be-cut-as-earnings-rise-4628378
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Unpaid #carers show care and compassion for other in their lives - which makes it so wrong that so many are forced to get by on low incomes that don't meet their household needs. This #CarersWeek we want to highlight that injustice, and show our support for a society where no carer is left in poverty.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/10/when-profit-is-put-above-the-welfare-of-vulnerable-children-in-care; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/child-care-councils-private-equity-companies. "It is an absolute disgrace & brings shame on our #country that the #experience gained in the 1960s & '70s of how to help #children survive the loss of their primary #carers was thrown away as part of destructive #neoliberal #austerity. This has led to the present situation, in which children & their futures are sacrificed to satisfy the same mistaken #ideology. The #Tories initiated it, but why has #Labour failed to do anything about it?"
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🌩️ The UK is facing a “perfect storm” in which people are expected to #work longer, fund their own future #care, and provide #unpaidcare, all at once
NEW CPC-CG Policy Briefing highlights mounting pressures on #carers and the urgent need for #policy reform, as we mark #CarersWeek 8-14 June.
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All links swapped, for instances with shorter msg limits
5. Family Action https://family-action.org.uk/self-help/
6. Self-care for parents and carers https://www.annafreud.org/resources/family-wellbeing/self-care-for-parents-and-carers/
7. Setting Healthy Boundaries https://positivepsychology.com/great-self-care-setting-healthy-boundaries/
8. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/dbt-interpersonal-effectiveness-skills1. Mind https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/crisis-services-and-planning/how-to-plan-for-a-mental-health-crisis/
2. Carers https://carers.org/about-caring/about-caring
3. Online Parenting Courses https://www.coramfamilylives.org.uk/how-we-can-help/online-parenting-courses/
4. Foster and/or Adopt https://www.barnardos.org.uk/get-support/fostering-and-adoption#FosterCare #Adopt #Adoption #Adopted #mentor #guide #advice #Care #carers #caring #CaringEconomy #CareGiver #CareGiving #parent #parents #parenting #parentingAdvice #Guardian #baby #babies #kids #children #teen #preteen #teens #teenager #teenagers #young #YoungCarer #YoungCarers #youth
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All help links
1. Mind https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/crisis-services-and-planning/how-to-plan-for-a-mental-health-crisis/
2. Carers https://carers.org/about-caring/about-caring
3. Online Parenting Courses https://www.coramfamilylives.org.uk/how-we-can-help/online-parenting-courses/
4. Foster and/or Adopt https://www.barnardos.org.uk/get-support/fostering-and-adoption5. Family Action https://family-action.org.uk/self-help/
6. Self-care for parents and carers https://www.annafreud.org/resources/family-wellbeing/self-care-for-parents-and-carers/
7. Setting Healthy Boundaries https://positivepsychology.com/great-self-care-setting-healthy-boundaries/
8. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/dbt-interpersonal-effectiveness-skills#FosterCare #Adopt #Adoption #Adopted #mentor #guide #advice #Care #carers #caring #CaringEconomy #CareGiver #CareGiving #parent #parents #parenting #parentingAdvice #Guardian #baby #babies #kids #children #teen #preteen #teens #teenager #teenagers #young #YoungCarer #YoungCarers #youth
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📝 The UK government's #PensionsCommission interim report - it's encouraging to see CPC-CG research referenced and acknowledged in the report, which sets out the challenges that the UK's #pensions system is facing to 2050.
The report cites research led by CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou, which shows that policies encouraging #older adults to remain in #employment are in direct conflict with the rising reliance on informal #carers to provide #socialcare.
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DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/20/dwp-pursued-womans-employer-for-nonexistent-benefit-debt #Carers #Benefits #CarersAllowance #UkNews #Society #UniversalCredit
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The state of young Australians
A crisis of social reproduction* “Many Australian children struggle with their mental health. Recent data shows around one in seven children (13.9%) aged 4–17 experiences a diagnosable mental illness.”
“…We estimated that reducing factors such as parental psychological distress, hostile parenting and partner violence could potentially prevent up to 40% of severe and persistent mental health problems in young Australians.” >>
https://theconversation.com/to-improve-childrens-mental-health-start-by-supporting-their-parents-271944* Young Australians kept in the dark
Australia’s social media ban preventing teenagers from accessing the news, research finds >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/19/australias-social-media-ban-preventing-teens-from-accessing-the-news-research-finds* Sydney mum reveals the huge cost of the school run (Young people's socialisation into (car) dependency)
"She would easily spend $170 a week on petrol, and drives between 80km and 90km often six or seven days a week, depending on what’s on. In 2024, the average household should budget between $10,000 and $25,000 a year to own car." >>
https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/scool-run-australia-cost-2024/
#SocialReproduction #StateRetreat #CareDeficit #MentalHealth #anxiety #children #parenting #carers #family #DomesticViolence #violence #suburbia #sprawl #cars #MobilityDesign #CarDependency #work #WageStagnation #inequality #housing #instability #DoubleBurden #financialisation #outsourcing #SocialMedia #MSM #independence #citizens -
Millions of unpaid UK carers ‘living in agony’, says Louise Casey https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/14/millions-of-unpaid-uk-carers-living-in-agony-says-louise-casey #Carers #SocialCare #LouiseCasey #Society #Politics #UkNews
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Older people risk mental decline if they do long hours of caring, UK study shows https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/13/older-people-risk-mental-decline-if-they-do-long-hours-of-caring-uk-study-shows #Carers #SocialCare #UkNews #Health #MentalHealth
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I'm thinking of making an illustrated guide for carers. I want it to be an easy read and have a sense of humour.
What terms would you like to see in it?
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Just Work It Off
“Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.” – Ben Franklin
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Sir Keir Starmer, Knight of the Realm and Man of the Working People, has declared again that thou shalt work or thou shalt starve.
It’s becoming an increasingly common political line in the UK that the economic woes are all caused by people not working hard enough and there is particular ire being levelled at those who are neither employed nor unemployed (a quite narrow measure of people who are not in but who are actively looking for work) but who are “economically inactive” – who are neither working nor who are looking for work. The other line is that work is the only thing that gives someone’s life purpose and that if you’re not working then you’re a lesser kind of person than someone who is – a failure, or an immoral shirker.
I want you to consider someone who is “economically inactive”. What is the image in your head? According to some, it’s a sofa-lout – someone who would rather persist on benefits than actually do some honest labour or might even earn MORE through those benefits than someone who does work (they almost certainly don’t and when they do, often that number is padded by housing benefit that goes to their landlord to pay for an inflated house rent – who are the real spongers off the taxpayer in that scenario?).
Or it’s a disabled or long-term sick person – except they’re not REALLY ill, are they? They’re playing things up to avoid work, or they’re outright faking being ill, or they have a mental illness and everyone knows that’s not a real illness so they should just buck up and stop sponging off the taxpayers. Just work it off and it’ll be fine.
I wrote about this quite recently in terms of who is actually not working and why but it bears repeating because Starmer’s plan is so badly wrong on all levels. He has misidentified the problem in the economy as ‘too many sick people not working’ and misidentified the solution as ‘and therefore we need to force young people to ‘work or starve’.
When we actually look at the numbers and reasons for people being both out of work and not actively looking for work, a very different picture emerges. Yes, the number of long term ill people has risen since the pandemic – and I’ll come back to that group – they make up less than a third of the total number of people not working and not seeking to work.The next largest group in that category are students who are focusing entirely on their studies (an increasingly difficult thing to do in this era of increasing fees, costs of living and lack of the kind of support that the people increasing those fees got when they were students). The next largest group are carers – who really should be paid much more than they are for providing that care given the amount of unpaid benefit they PROVIDE the state in terms of services. As I’ve mentioned during discussions of UBI vs Job Guarantee Schemes (short version: do both), not everyone who cares for someone wants to turn that into a “job”, particularly if there’s even the hint of a risk that they could be reassigned to care for someone else – on the other hand, so many unpaid carers make do with so little support that both their and their cared for experience unmet needs that should be dealt with (perhaps via a National Care Service…) but in any case I can’t imagine that situation being made better by telling unpaid carers that they have to work or lose their benefits, especially when so many of them lose their benefits when they DO work.
We also see homemakers and early retirees in this “economically inactive” group which really shows the lie that this whole exercise is based on. We simply do not count the work of looking after a home as work and thus we devalue the existence of anyone who has spent their life doing that (usually women. Almost always women.). The very concept of GDP is based on the idea that a woman’s unpaid homemaking has a value of zero. Literally zero. The illustration I use is that if I clean my house and you clean your house, GDP is unaffected. But if you pay me £100 to clean your house and then I pay you that same £100 back to clean my house then no one has profited, the same houses are just as clean but now GDP is somehow £200 higher. Forcing homemakers to take a job instead might push the GDP line up but will it really result in more work being done?
All in Starmer is about to discover what previous governments did – that people are actually on the whole a pretty good judge of their own position in life and that the vast majority of people who aren’t working aren’t working for a very good reason. There just aren’t that many people in the “economically inactive” group who aren’t working, can work but who don’t want to work (in fact, that group is SO small in the dataset that it’s subject to sample size issues).
There may well be people who want to work but can’t. Someone who is ill but will eventually recover could well be supported back into work AFTER they recover and that recovery could well be sped along by improvements to health and care – but this isn’t a moral failure on the part of the person who is ill. Someone else might be able to work but not able to get that work (a job vacancy for a farmhand in Dumfries isn’t likely to be much use to a former oil engineer in Aberdeen) but that’s an economic rather than moral failure too.
And in neither case will they be helped by Starmer cutting their benefits as if he can continue previous Conservative government policy of starving people into submission or that any help folk are given has to be carefully micro-managed because the “fact” of their poverty is already evidence of their poor moral choices and judgement.
The solution is the same one as I’ve presented before. Trust people. There hasn’t been a Universal Basic Income study yet that has shown that it discourages people from working EXCEPT the people we probably would PREFER focus on something other than work if it was us (students, carers, parents). Nor has there been a case where giving people money resulted in them “wasting” it on things we think are only acceptable to spend on if we’re rich (and thus moral) enough. The case for a UBI is now beyond arguable and is now a moral imperative. In fact, a world of a UBI flips the “moral” case for work presented at the start of this article on its head. Rather than forcing people to find purpose in life through their labour like life is an open air work camp, UBI allows people the freedom to find purpose in their life – purpose that may include working (please donate to Common Weal to allow me and my colleagues to keep doing precisely that) but it equally may involve finding purpose in doing something other than work or doing something that someone else doesn’t consider to be work. Once we’ve done that, we can add in a Job Guarantee Scheme (as I say, we need both) to allow people to turn that freedom to work into an opportunity to work WITHOUT it becoming, as the Conservatives and now Starmer’s Labour would want, an obligation to work.
The Labour Party was founded on a principle of supporting workers but I think they’ve forgotten that that means they were founded to support working people (even as they’ve tied themselves in knots trying to include the “right” (read: morally upright) people in that definition and exclude others but not themselves), not to support people to work. They need to stop thinking of people as units of production who push the GDP line up (or who fail to do so). Once that happens, maybe they’ll start to understand where the problems really lie with the economy and will be able to actually start fixing them.
#benefits #carer #carers #mentalHealth #politics #UBI #UKPolitics #work
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Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’ | Carers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/19/unpaid-carer-dwp-prosecution-threat-like-blackmail#DWP
#Fraud
#WronglyAccused
#WrongfullyAccused
#CPS
#AccidentalBreachOfEarningsRules
#CarersAllowance
#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#FinancialHardship
#WeCareCampaign
#DWPLettingTheOverpaymentBuildUp
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'Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from #UnpaidCarers over #BenefitInfringements that occurred largely as a result of #GovernmentFailures'
'...a successions of ministers have failed to fix the problem, leaving tens of thousands of unpaid carers – who save the UK £160bn a year and help prop up #NHS and #SocialCare services – in financial hardship while they repay the debt'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures
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‘They’re heartless’: how one woman fell victim to the carer’s allowance trap | Carers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/how-one-woman-fell-victim-carers-allowance-trap-karina-moon#CarersAllowance
#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#CA
#CATrap
#DWP
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What You Need to Know for Friday's Vote! [Accessible Version]
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#FamilyRef #CareRef #WorkersAndCarers #Referendum #Carers #Disability #DisabilityRights #Ireland #IrishPolitics #Democracy #CarersAreWorkers #WorkersAreCarers #HumanRights
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What You Need to Know for Friday's Vote! [Accessible Version]
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#FamilyRef #CareRef #WorkersAndCarers #Referendum #Carers #Disability #DisabilityRights #Ireland #IrishPolitics #Democracy #CarersAreWorkers #WorkersAreCarers #HumanRights
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Statement from Party Leader and Ireland South MEP Candidate @lornabogue :
#YesNo #FamilyRef #CareRef #Referendum #workersandcarers #ecosocialist #ireland #WorkersAreCarers #CarersAreWorkers #irishpolitics #irishpol #workers #carers #democracy
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At 'Rabharta: The Party for Workers and Carers', after extensive debate which placed the voices of carers and people with disabilities at its centre, we've decided to support a Yes-No vote for the upcoming 2 referenda this Friday 8th March!
#YesNo #FamilyRef #CareRef #Referendum #workersandcarers #ecosocialist #ireland #WorkersAreCarers #CarersAreWorkers #irishpolitics #irishpol #workers #carers #democracy
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Families caring for dementia patients in UK reaching crisis point, says charity | Dementia | The Guardian
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