Hello all Thanks for your contributions to this thread and sorry for my delayed response - I was organising and giving talks at several Carers Week events last week. I'm pleased to let you know that our telephone helpline is now open again on Mondays and Tuesdays between 10am and 4pm - 0808 808 7777...

Hello Chris - the report you've provided the link for was just produced for Carers Week. A more detailed State of Caring report will be communicated widely in the second week of July.

Hope this helps

Michael

Sorry to hear about the recent problems on the forum. I thought it had been behaving quite well recently and it must have been frustrating to have all the error messages. I'll let the IT support know on Monday.

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Hi Chris - our IT support have asked if you can let us know the timeframe when you experienced all the 'Bad Gateway' messages. Please can you let me know roughly when you started your forum session and when you finished.

Thanks

Michael

Thanks for letting us know Chris - sorry to hear you had so many 'bad gateway' messages in one session. I'll let the IT support know.

Michael

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