Carers UK welcomes CQC’s message that it is calling time on the poor quality care that is letting down families, employers and society as a whole.

Carers UK has welcomed the Government announcement that from April 2015 the earnings threshold for Carer's Allowance will be raised to £110 a week.

Carers across the UK are being pushed to the brink – suffering exhaustion, physical and mental breakdown as they struggle to care for older or disabled loved ones.

Carers UK has responded to the publication of the final report by the Barker Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England.

Cuts to social care funding have reached £3.53 billion over the past four years, a survey published today by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) shows.

The extension of working rights is an important step in helping workers to combine caring responsibilities for family members with paid employment, charity Carers UK says.

News stats reinforce need for nation to wake-up to carers needs.

Research reveals crisis of carers struggling without support and huge gaps in national understanding of growing social issue.

Carers Trust and Carers UK respond to NHS England carer pledge, launched today at Carers UK's annual State of Caring conference.

Charity and industry unite a century of experience to innovate support for caring families. 

Dementia is moving “centre stage” as a business issue with more that can and must be done to address the care crisis now looming over the economy, business leaders will be told today

Carers UK is celebrating securing historic new rights for parents of disabled children as Peers agree a last minute amendment to the Children and Families Bill to include them in new legislative rights for carers.

12-month investigation by Carers UK exposes stark reality faced by those looking after loved ones who are older, disabled or seriously ill: loss of savings, debt and struggling to afford food and heating

Government slashes support for full-time carers of older and disabled loved ones

Carers UK welcomes Government amendment to improve parent carers' rights

Responding to last night’s debate on strengthening the rights of parent carers, the Children’s Minister, Lord Nash, agreed to introduce an amendment at the final stage of the children and Families Bill

NEW care laws which ignore the rights of parents with seriously ill or disabled children must be revised, Carers UK says. Government has an unprecedented opportunity to redress this, but time is running out

Carers UK announces first adopters of newly launched app Jointly – the app for families caring for loved ones

Carers UK today makes a pioneering move into the app market with the launch of Jointly – a tool to help families manage care for loved ones alongside increasingly complex lives

The Government has published Guidance on the Better Care Fund. The Fund was announced in June as part of the 2013 Spending Round. The funding is designed to help local authorities work more closely with their local health authority to develop integrated services and to prepare for their new duties under the Care Bill. For carers, the Fund includes: £130 million for ...