The life and times of an unpaid carer.

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Introduction Happy New Year and welcome to our Highlights of 2023 and our Hopes for 2024! We started our journey as Unpaid Carer Representatives on the Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board back in November 2022 and have had a very busy year supporting the rights and responsibilities of Unpaid Carers across and beyond our…

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog, but the recent attacks on those with disabilities and those, who through no fault of their own are claiming benefits has prompted me to write again. Over the last several months we’ve seen constant attacks coming from the media and UK government aimed at some of…

So, yet again there’s another story in the press quoting somebody working for the DWP rolling out the old chestnut of “We owe unpaid carers a great debt of gratitude.” How many times have we all heard that phrase for it to never be followed by any meaningful action? Rather than words unpaid carers need…

Below is the full video of days 1 thru to 7 of #RealCarersWeek. I’ll shortly be posting a blog with response to the events of Carer Week 2023.

Check back each day for a new video. Day 1 Day 2 so far…………. Day 2 – Part 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7

So here we are again, Carers Week, bingo cards at the ready, waiting for the usual warm words and platitudes, wondering which politician will be the first to mention paid carers instead of unpaid carers and wondering will anything change. What’s it all for, will anything ever change for us and afterall caring is week…

Some of you may have noticed I’ve been on a Twitter rant this morning, but there’s a very good reason for it. That reason being, the vile and hateful abuse being thrown at people living with disabilities or life limiting conditions and those who care for them by the far right. One lady posted a…

I awoke feeling bright and cheery this morning, but soon after logging on to Twitter that mood went down hill very quickly and soon turned to anger. What made me so angry so quickly? Seeing yet another article in the mainstream media basically calling those who are disabled or those who care for disabled family…

After over a decade of caring responsibilities with no real break last night felt very strange and eerily quiet, but despite that my carer brain still hasn’t fully switched off and I still woke up during the night expecting to hear mum moving around or for their to be some sort of carer emergency in…