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Here at Carers UK we are calling on national governments to take immediate action to make
a difference to carers’ lives and achieve the following:
• Give carers a break and
provide funding and a
choice of quality services
to enable carers to take
the breaks they need.
• Ensure carers are able
to juggle work and care,
if they wish to, with
support to return to work
alongside or after caring.
• Put in place enough
funding so that older
people and people with
disabilities are able to
access the quality and
affordable care they need
and that carers are able
to have a life alongside
caring roles.
• Ensure that carers and
their families do not suffer
financial hardship as a
result of caring.
• Deliver a National Health
Service that recognises,
values and supports
carers.
One in ten carers
This year we’re particularly campaigning
to improve access to breaks for carers, to
increase Carer’s Allowance (see page 13)
and for a new right to paid time off work to
care.
In the Autumn, the Government will be
publishing new proposals on how adult
social care will be funded in England and
along with their new long-term plan for the
NHS the new proposals could have important
repercussions for families not just in England
but in the whole UK. We know too that social
care and the NHS will again be at the top
of the agenda this year. We want to make
sure that pressure on carers is at the centre
of discussions about more funding and the
results of the State of Caring report will give
us much needed evidence to do this.
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10 %
feel confident that the support they
receive and rely upon will continue
Half of unpaid carers
50 %
said they expect their quality of life to
get worse in the next 12 months
20 %
said they cut back on essentials such as
food and heating to cope
15