Money is needed now for a system that has left families including mine struggling their way unsupported and forgotten As one of many hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with a parent with Alzheimer’s, the passage in Andy Burnham’s speech about social care moved me to tears. My mother had not even been diagnosed when I watched Theresa May announce her 2017 general election manifesto in a hall in Halifax – with care funding at its heart. Continue reading...
Those who have stepped in to keep young family members from going into care in England and Wales say the decision has brought them joy and hardship Clive vividly remembers the day when, without warning or time to work out what he was really letting himself in for, he became a kinship carer. “The social worker left, the door closed and Savannah was lying there in a carry cot, wrapped up in a pink blanket. She looked so calm and so comfy, absolutely oblivious about what’s just happened. Continue reading...
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