Partnership helping to launch network supporting unpaid carers
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Mum pushing to keep son in hospital says NDIS plan not keeping him safe
By Hannah Ross and Emma Rennie
ToyNera Macgregor says her son Annan is no longer safe at home due to his significant disabilities and that the NDIS has failed to provide the extra support he needs.
#PeopleWithDisability #PublicHousing #HealthPolicy #Family #Carers #HannahRoss #EmmaRennie
Growing old is a scary thought for Canberra's Deaf community
By Emily Anderson
Christine Yerbury has been waiting since October to receive an occupational therapy assessment to allow her to receive a Deaf-appropriate device.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/struggles-of-deaf-canberrans-in-need-of-support/105514918
#Disabilities #Health #AgedCare #HealthcareFacilities #DiseasesandDisorders #AlzheimersandDementia #Hearing #LocalGovernment #OlderPeople #CommunityandSociety #Carers #EmilyAnderson
Carers, clients 'devastated' as major care provider collapses
By Wade Stephens
With a 1,000 employees and about 4,400 clients affected, aged care, disability and veterans care service provider Annecto goes into voluntary administration, leaving staff fearful for their entitlements and their clients.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-08/care-provider-annecto-in-voluntary-administration/105494798
#Carers #AgedCare #Veterans #Disabilities #Unemployment #OlderPeople #WadeStephens
Tamworth mother struggles to care for kids and sick parents 400km away
By Brigitte Murphy and Kristy Reading
Emelia Rixon didn't know what she was signing up for when she agreed to accept power of attorney and enduring guardianship for her parents over a decade ago. Now she is caring for them as well as her children.
#Carers #AgedCare #OlderPeople #Family #Parenting #Health #BrigitteMurphy #KristyReading
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/05/young-carer-amazed-as-guardian-readers-pay-off-her-2000-fine-for-benefit-rules-mistake. Rose Jones, aged 22, should never have been fined £2,145 in the first place. It should not have taken readers of the @guardian to pay an absurd fine imposed by the inhumane, bureaucratic monstrosity that is the DWP, just because of her trifling mistake. They are strangers to empathy & compassion, & enemies of #carers, as well as #disabled people.
Carers like me connect patients and doctors – so why are we so often made to feel invisible? | Emily Kenway https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/30/carers-patients-doctors-feel-invisible-health #Socialcare #Doctors #Society #Carers #Health #UKnews
As a carer, I’m not special – but sometimes I need to be reminded how important my role is | Natasha Sholl https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/as-a-carer-im-not-special-but-sometimes-i-need-to-be-reminded-how-important-my-role-is #Parentsandparenting #Carers #Cancer #Health #Family #Health
More and more cases are going to be getting publicity (like the Horizon scandal) as more and more carers realise that the DWP is harassing carers across the country - they likely no longer feel so isolated by the clawback demands.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again; the DWP needs to be stopped, and carers been to be valued not treated as fraudsters & criminals - the DWP must be changed & that change must be comprehensive - top to bottom!
#carers #DWP #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/carers-allowance-woman-who-won-case-against-dwp-calls-for-end-to-sickening-harassment
So, one part of the DWP advises a young carer to join the Kickstart scheme because it wouldn't affect her carers' allowance, only subsequently got be subjected to a clawback of benefits due to the allowance paid on the scheme.
The inhumanity towards carers reaches a new low - suckering them into the very situation that exposes them to DWP's callous approach to accidental over-payment.
The DWP must be held to account for this sh*tshow!
🔖 NEW article
Older adults who struggle with daily tasks are more likely to have depressive symptoms, esp. if they experience loneliness or difficulties accessing care, so timely access to #socialcare and tackling loneliness could help later life #mentalhealth
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/hsc/8867042
#ageing #gerontology #socialscience #caring #carers #unpaidcare
Campaign aiming to highlight support on offer for male carers in Staffordshire
DWP PIP changes will hit carers with a £650 million cut every year
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
#DWP
#PIP
#CarersAllowance
#Carers
5.7 million unpaid carers save...
DWP PIP changes will hit carers with a £650 million cut every year
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/05/31/dwp-pip-carers-cuts/
I'm so proud of my friend, Dr Anna Vaught, for initiating the #CuraePrize – a #Writing prize just for writers who are also #Carers.
This year's winners have just been announced, and will feature in an anthology to be published by #RenardPress.
John Harris is one of the few remaining true journalists. He talks to people, he listens, he reports. He also has an autistic son. He also is an empathetic person.
Here he writes about the complete failure of the UK system to manage the incredible work done by "carers", people who support family members who are disabled or need constant help for one reason or another. Not an easy read.
He also speaks about Ed Davey, the leader of the UK's (left of centre) Lib Dem party. Davfy had multiple personal involvements with Carer roles in his life. Very moving. I completely recalibrated my views about this politician. He's someone real and authentic.
#carers #disability #EdDavey #LibDems #UKpol #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/family-carers-hidden-face-care-crisis-ed-davey
‘The carer’s allowance scandal – because of which 144,000 carers are repaying more than £251m – continues to claim victims and will do so for the immediate future as the DWP works its way through thousands of backlogged overpayments.’
“In any sort of ethical world, this would not happen.”
The #DWP ignored whistleblowers and continued to fine and prosecute #carers.
Overpayments of carer's allowance (paid over months) that the DWP tries to claw back as lump sums, seem to have been running at over £50m a year for the last six years & its largely the DWP's fault for letting overpayments continue for too long even when they'd been notified that payments should have been stopped.
As always its a tale of badly used technology & staff cuts, but carers lives have been made miserable because the DWP couldn't do its job properly!
#carers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/19/at-least-357m-in-carers-allowance-paid-out-in-error-over-past-six-years-charity-finds
Councillors visit new carers group in Burntwood
https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/05/15/councillors-visit-new-carers-group-in-burntwood/
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