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#carers — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carers, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Could this radical idea transform social care in the UK? | Letters
    By Guardian Staff

    Readers respond to Paul Sagar’s article suggesting a ‘Care First’ year for students in exchange for 50% off university fees

    theguardian.com/society/2026/s

    #Socialcare #Society #AndyBurnham #Politics #Welfare #Carers #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  2. Additional grandparenting admin accomplished in the last 10 days...

    Organised initial appointments for the wee one for:
    OT
    Speechie
    ADHD/Autism

    Teams meetings with:
    OT
    Kinship assessment

    Phoned Centrelink:
    Child Care Subsidy has the 3yo attending primary school??? (different rate) - now fixed

    Emailing CYF multiple times to keep them updated as required

    #Grandparenting #Admin #Carers

  3. 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.” >>
    theconversation.com/to-improve

    * Young Australians kept in the dark
    Australia’s social media ban preventing teenagers from accessing the news, research finds >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    * 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." >>
    drive.com.au/caradvice/scool-r
    #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

  4. Wildlife dying by the roadside for days...
    Native wildlife rescue should be on par in urgency with a triple-0 call.
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-02-10/wil
    #RoadTrauma #wildlife #roads #cars #Bellingen #GlenifferRoad #WildlifeRescue #volunteers #rescuers #carers #governance #biodiversity

    Obituary for Stumpy the Kombu resident blue tongue lizard squashed by SUVs as Church St. is allowed to turn into yet another car park in Bellingen

  5. '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'
    theguardian.com/society/articl
    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

  6. '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'
    theguardian.com/society/articl
    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

  7. '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'
    theguardian.com/society/articl
    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

  8. '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'
    theguardian.com/society/articl
    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

  9. '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'
    theguardian.com/society/articl
    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

  10. I'm feeling very lucky at the moment. My instance @mastodon.au have increased us to 2000 characters.

    I believe every group of living beings should have a collective noun.

    Please add your thoughts as they occur and see if you can assist my #gofundme

    My first thoughts are:
    A #riot of #environmental #activists.
    A #shitfight of #politicians.
    A #vadge of female #mining #magnates.
    A #destruction of #coal #miners
    A #cacaphony of mall #shoppers.
    A #misery of #wildlife #carers.
    A #fuckup of #farmers
    A #quietly of #librarians
    A #fuckyou of #police #officers
    A #murder of #Adelaide #Crows #Fans

    Give a chance to #Australia's #kangaroos before our #environmentally #destructive #fharmers and/or #farmers kill them all.

    #KangaroosOfMastodon
    gofund.me/b3f006c4