By Ruth Hannan

It’s a rare day that many of us feel affinity and empathy with millionaire professional footballers, but Paul Scholes' disclosure of his private struggles to balance paid work and caring for his son with autism changed that.

Football fans and commentators alike were united in their outpouring of support and admiration for Scholes.

But, for many of us, his description of privately caring for his son whilst trying to maintain paid work was all too familiar.

Scholes' disclosure highlighted how much care is seen as a duty and responsibility, something private, but it also demonstrates the isolation that care creates.

Something we found in our recent work exploring solidarity across care, among those with a relationship to care and/or who were campaigning to change things, was that many felt isolated by the state and society’s........

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