Social care

Burnham says carers should be 'the best paid people in society'. Here's how much they actually earn
Prime minister Andy Burnham meets a woman in a visit to Jewish Care in Golders Green
social care

Burnham says carers should be 'the best paid people in society'. Here's how much they actually earn

The prime minister has promised fair pay for care workers, but new figures reveal the scale of what needs to change
Unpaid carers of parents with dementia are propping up the NHS and social care system
Dr Jackie Gray
Jackie Gray

Unpaid carers of parents with dementia are propping up the NHS and social care system

The £184 billion question: What would happen if the unpaid carers stopped caring?
torn heart
 Emily Holzhausen

The £184 billion question: What would happen if the unpaid carers stopped caring?

What would happen if the UK's volunteers stopped volunteering?
Volunteering

What would happen if the UK's volunteers stopped volunteering?

Kinship carers forced to turn to food banks after taking in vulnerable children
Kinship carers

Kinship carers forced to turn to food banks after taking in vulnerable children

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'Long overdue': New Child Protection Authority announced – but will it stop grooming gangs?
Social Justice

'Long overdue': New Child Protection Authority announced – but will it stop grooming gangs?

Why care leavers need better access to childhood records: 'A stranger knew more about me than I did'
Care leavers

Why care leavers need better access to childhood records: 'A stranger knew more about me than I did'

Shocking number of children in care live without consistent love and support of an adult
person with head down
Lisa Harker

Shocking number of children in care live without consistent love and support of an adult

'There are good people in the world': The impact of supported lodgings on young people without family
Supported lodgings

'There are good people in the world': The impact of supported lodgings on young people without family

Thousands of pensioners evicted from care homes and put at risk of homelessness: 'It's so cruel'
pensioners sat together
Care homes

Thousands of pensioners evicted from care homes and put at risk of homelessness: 'It's so cruel'

I'm a trans care leaver. Finding love and acceptance as my true self was the best feeling in the world
Jack Smith

I'm a trans care leaver. Finding love and acceptance as my true self was the best feeling in the world

Lack of post-18 kinship care support has almost driven me back into homelessness
Former child in kinship care turned campaigner Honey Alma
Honey Alma

Lack of post-18 kinship care support has almost driven me back into homelessness

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care, study finds
A person sleeping on a sofa wrapped in a duvet
Care system

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care, study finds

Revealed: Over a third of parents who care for sick or disabled children have considered suicide
Screenshot of the film More Than A Parent depicts an unpaid parent carer sitting on the floor of her kitchen
Social care

Revealed: Over a third of parents who care for sick or disabled children have considered suicide

Adam Buxton: 'Being a carer is the right thing to do – but it's so hard, especially if it's your parents'
Letter To My Younger Self

Adam Buxton: 'Being a carer is the right thing to do – but it's so hard, especially if it's your parents'

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: 'Millions of us are carers or need care'
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: 'Millions of us are carers or need care'

Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it's facing an urgent financial crisis
a person in a wheelchair at a home with a chalkboard
Suzannah Young

Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it's facing an urgent financial crisis

'It will be a crisis': Adult social care pushed to the brink by government's overseas care worker ban
social care
Social care

'It will be a crisis': Adult social care pushed to the brink by government's overseas care worker ban

I'm a social worker – don't judge me for it
Clair Graham

I'm a social worker – don't judge me for it

Benefits for unpaid carers and those they care for are intrinsically linked – Labour is failing both
Emily Holzhausen

Benefits for unpaid carers and those they care for are intrinsically linked – Labour is failing both

Kinship carers need financial support. Instead, we're just left to get on with it
Kinship care

Kinship carers need financial support. Instead, we're just left to get on with it

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New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children
Film

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children

Reform councillor describing some children in care as 'evil' proves how broken the system really is
Reform UK's Andy Osborn during a Cambridgeshire County Council meeting. Credit: Youtube / Terry Galloway
Sophia Alexandra Hall

Reform councillor describing some children in care as 'evil' proves how broken the system really is

Over 1.5 million Brits are unpaid carers for over 50 hours per week. Too often, they're 'invisible'
Unpaid carers

Over 1.5 million Brits are unpaid carers for over 50 hours per week. Too often, they're 'invisible'

Hundreds of care leavers were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened
Basic income

Hundreds of care leavers were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened