10 June 2025, 09:27

By Ruth Hannan

There’s an irony that Carers Week this year falls in the same week as the Spending Review.

The week’s theme of “caring about equality” is particularly biting, with one in four adult carers and two million child carers already living in poverty.

Unpaid care has long been viewed as a domestic, individualised activity. As such, it has been treated by successive governments as a cost and burden to both our society and economy. At Care Full we think it’s time we reevaluated care’s place in a 21st century society.

Care will likely play a part in all our lives. As more of us have long-term health problems, health........

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