Hello Joanne Thanks for posting about your situation in the Forum. This has clearly been a difficult and distressing time for you and your family and in addition to the supportive posts from other members we have also sent you an email with some suggestions of additional support. Wishing you well Mi...

Hello Melina Thank you for posting in the Forum about your situation. It sounds like you, your mum and your brother have been having a really tough time recently. In addition to the supportive responses from Melly1 and bowlingbun, I have also sent you an email with some additional suggestions of sup...

Please sign our new petition calling on the Chancellor to fund social care properly The Government’s recently announced plans to ‘fix care’ won’t see significant new funding for social care until 2023. For many carers this will be too late! That’s why we are calling on the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to ...

Hello everyone I just wanted to let you know that we still have places available at two of our online Share and Learn sessions this week. If either of these sessions are of interest we'd love to see you there. Tips and Guidance for new carers – Wednesday 22 September, 3-4pm Are you a new to caring? ...

Hello everyone Thank you to everyone who completed our recent State of Caring survey which has provided us with a wealth of information on the experiences of carers in 2021. If you have time, we would also really appreciate you taking up to ten minutes to complete a survey on how you connect with ot...

Good morning

Carers UK has just updated our guidance on the COVID-19 booster vaccine which we thought you would find helpful.

https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advic ... ccine-faqs

With good wishes

Michael

Good morning everyone I thought you'd be interested to see these Carers UK press releases from the past couple of weeks. Carers UK's response to the Government's plans for funding social care https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/press-releases/carers-uk-responds-to-government-s-proposals-for-...

Dear Carers UK members Last week, we launched our State of Caring survey for 2021, the most comprehensive piece of research into the lives of unpaid carers. Taking part in this research helps us campaign for recognition and change for carers, so please fill in the survey if you care for someone and ...

Good morning everyone Below is a link to Carers UK's response to the Governments announcement of its priority list for the COVID-19 booster and annual vaccines. https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/press-releases/carers-uk-responds-to-covid-19-booster-jab-prioritisation With good wishes Michael

Hello Nicola Thanks for posting about your situation in the Forum. I'm sorry to hear that you have concerns about the management of your mum's finances. If you would like one of Carers UK's helpline advisers to provide you with some advice on this matter, please email advice@carersuk.org with the co...