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Carers

June 2026

  • A still from Guardian documentary Is Mum OK?

    Aiden’s story of life as a young carer | Is Mum OK? Documentary

  • Aiden is an unforgettable young caregiver in Walthamstow, east London, who has been looking after his mum for over half his life. Every few weeks, Aiden and other young carers get a rare night off thanks to tenacious council worker Satvinder, who fights to improve the recognition of young carers in her borough. This film joins them as they reclaim a few hours of their teenage lives back.

    Aiden's story of life as a young carer | Is Mum OK? Documentary

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  • Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis.

    Parents caring for seriously ill children in UK could get financial support under ‘Hugh’s law’

  • Human brain illustration

    Challenges of treating and living with a brain injury

  • A mother’s work has enormous value

  • The inequalities of time are stark

May 2026

  • Linda Bassett and Hayley Carmichael in Care

    Care review – this searing portrayal of dementia raises urgent questions for us all

    Alexander Zeldin’s devastating play depicts the gruelling loneliness and confusion of life in a care home
  • The letters 'DWP' printed in green on a light blue document

    DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’

    Exclusive: Employer of woman who cares for disabled mother was asked to deduct ‘debt’ from salary despite court ruling she had nothing to pay

    • ‘Frailty and terrible rage’: Linda Bassett on Call the Midwife, her crap-free CV and selling ice creams at Olivier’s Old Vic

    • Millions of unpaid UK carers ‘living in agony’, says Louise Casey

    • Older people risk mental decline if they do long hours of caring, UK study shows

April 2026

  • design image of blue badge

    ‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges

    Badge holders and carers report being harassed, filmed and threatened by strangers who think they are faking disability
  • Viviane de Souza carries her dog after a deadly mudslide in Petropolis, Brazil

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Three disasters in three years: Brazil’s deadly floods show women are ‘the first to die’ when extreme weather hits

    The climate crisis is accelerating the frequency of devastating events across the world, displacing millions and disproportionately affecting women
  • A person pushing a disabled man in a wheelchair along a road in a park

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Thousands of unpaid carers to face DWP repayment demands during overhaul

    Ministers admit carer’s allowance penalties will continue while review of more than 200,000 cases is carried out

March 2026

  • Print showing George Washington on his deathbed in 1799 surrounded by family and friends at his Mount Vernon plantation home

    double quotation markIn defence of dropping dead: the burden of extended care for aged parents is a heavy new phenomenon

    Lucinda Holdforth
    At 59, I was at last an orphan. I woke up with the most complete feeling of liberty and personhood I’d ever experienced
  • Person pushing wheelchair user along seafront promenade by beach

    MPs threaten fresh inquiry into carers allowance scandal amid redress delays

    Unpaid carers say they remain ‘in limbo’ as DWP continues to pursue discredited repayment bills

    • The impossible task of caring for ageing parents who did not care for you: ‘There’s a lot of reliving old triggers’

    • Unpaid carers ordered to repay benefits despite DWP knowing rules were unlawful

    • Head of carer’s allowance inquiry blames DWP ‘resistance’ for failure to fix crisis

February 2026

  • A grandfather and grandsons sitting in a doorway with their backs to the camera

    Kinship carers in England to be given financial support in government pilot

    Charities hail ‘groundbreaking’ scheme for grandparents and others who take full parental responsibility for a child
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