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Latest Carer Watch Campaigns

Carer Watch is campaigning across the whole of the care system. Click to read more about the Carer Watch campaigns.

+ Financial Support for Carers - Not Fit for Purpose

If you give up work to become a carer you will be expected to use up all your own assets and probably lose your home before the state will give you financial support. This is completely unfair. Most older carers get no help at all.

 

+ Older Carers

When pensioners become carers it is all too often a matter of those in need of care, caring for those in need of even greater care. Older carers need far more specialist support.

 

+ Failure of the Care System to Meet Specific Needs

Many carers and the people they care for feel that their particular needs are not taken into account. Are systems within the care sufficiently flexible? Do they fail to identify the needs of certain groups of carers and/or the people they care for? Is service provision too rigid?

 

+ Cuts Cuts Cuts

Every day we hear of local authorities closing, withdrawing or cutting back on essential facilities and services. The already inadequate care system is dying on its feet. We have to halt that process, not next year, not the year after that, we have to halt it now.

 

+ Mental Health

Mental Health services are the Cinderella of the health service. They are already woefully under funded and the latest round of cuts is too much for them to bear. Mental Health carers often care for young adults at a critical crisis in their lives and then for many years after that. The support we get from the mental health services needs to be updated.

 

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