Carers UK at Labour Party Conference

Imelda Redmond, Chief Executive of Carers UK, called for carers to be at the heart of a modernised social care system. She warned that as carers save the UK £87 billion each year, it would only take a small number of people to decide not to provide care to have a significant impact on social care expenditure. A new system must take into account self-funders, who currently are outside of the social care system.

Further details of Carers UK's activities at the party conferences will be added soon, but in the meantime, here is a podcast of the Carers UK's Caring Choices fringe event: can we meet the costs of long term care?    

http://surreypodcast.workscast.com/Podcasts/DownloadFile.aspx?link=http://surreypodcast.workscast.com/FileStore/carechoice.mp3

You can find more about the Caring Choices coalition here. more...