The 2025 Poetry Competition is now closed.
You can read the winning poems here.
For this year’s competition, we invited poems on the theme of 'caring, family and community'.
Our judge this is Cheryl Moskowitz – a writer, poet, creative translator and educator, as well as a former carer.
If you would like to read the winning poems from our previous creative writing competitions, click here.
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Carers UK responds to updated Terms of Reference for the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment
30 October 25
We are pleased to see the publication today of a revised Terms of Reference for the Timms Review into Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and to see the appointment of the co-chairs Dr Clenton Farquarson CBE and Sharon Brennan.
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Carers Demand Better!
27 October 25
Cares Scotland coordinated the carers block at the Scotland Demands Better march on Saturday.
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Carers UK response: CQC’s annual assessment of the state of health and social care
24 October 25
The CQC’s annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England looks at the quality of care over the past year.
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Join us in the Carers Bloc for Scotland Demands Better!
22 October 25
Find how to take part in the Scotland Demands Better march in Edinburgh this Saturday.
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