"At my lowest point, I thought everyone might be better off without me."

Those words from a 45-year-old Indo-Caribbean woman caring for a loved one cut to the core. She’s one of thousands of unpaid carers from BME communities across Scotland providing vital care, often with little rest, recognition or support. Her experience, sadly, is far from unique.

This week, the Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP) is publishing Where Are We Now? the first major research in 30 years into the lives of unpaid carers from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in Scotland. The report comes just ahead of Carers Week, whose theme this year, Caring about Equality, couldn’t be more timely. Because right now, equality is exactly what’s missing.

Unpaid carers are the invisible network holding Scotland’s........

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