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This week for #CarersWeek, we’ll be thinking about #whatworks in supporting young adult carers – and what still needs to be done.👇
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Young adult carers are young people aged 16–24 who provide unpaid care to someone, usually a family member, on a regular basis.
🔎 The 2021 Census identified 272,731 young adult carers in England and Wales...
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🔎 The 2021 Census identified 272,731 young adult carers in England and Wales...
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... However, the real number of young adult carers is likely to be much higher, as many do not always consider themselves to be carers or are worried about disclosing their caring role.
Around 37,000 young people provide over 50 hours of care each week. ⏰
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Around 37,000 young people provide over 50 hours of care each week. ⏰
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If unpaid carers are being asked by professionals if they’ve thought about ending their life – then something is clearly wrong about the way unpaid carers are being treated 🧵
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If unpaid carers are being asked by professionals if they’ve thought about ending their life – then something is clearly wrong about the way unpaid carers are being treated 🧵
When you became an unpaid carer did you realise you might struggle to get breaks, that you’d have to continue to work even when you felt unwell. Imagine knowing that you wouldn’t get a break from your job, that you had to work every day of the year, 24 hours a day regardless 🧵
The role does not come with any employment rights. We’ve the right to a carers assessment. At first, hopeful this assessment is the answer to our prayers & we will get help. But with a social care crisis worsening daily there’s often no carers to allow are rights to be met 🧵
I've been doing research on the needs & experiences of unpaid carers for 12 years, across four countries.
For #CarersWeek, a 🧵of the Top 5 messages that have consistently come out of every piece of research I've done:
For #CarersWeek, a 🧵of the Top 5 messages that have consistently come out of every piece of research I've done:
(1) Carers need respite. And that respite needs to be regular (weekly at a minimum) and fully funded.
(2) Carers want to stay in paid employment, but when that's not possible they need a Carer's Allowance (and/or other state support) that doesn't force them into poverty.
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(2) Carers want to stay in paid employment, but when that's not possible they need a Carer's Allowance (and/or other state support) that doesn't force them into poverty.
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(3) Carers need to be believed, trusted, and treated with respect by health, social care & education professionals.
(4) Carers need to be supported - emotionally & practically - by friends and family.
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(4) Carers need to be supported - emotionally & practically - by friends and family.
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Next week is #CarersWeek - an entire week dedicated to 'making caring visible and valued'
However, for unpaid carers, the entire week can be exhausting, traumatic, and extremely triggering.
Here's some random thoughts on how to make the week slightly less torturous for carers:
However, for unpaid carers, the entire week can be exhausting, traumatic, and extremely triggering.
Here's some random thoughts on how to make the week slightly less torturous for carers:
1. Don't wish carers a *Happy* Carers Week -it won't go down well. No one should be celebrating the fact that over 6.5 million people in the UK provide unpaid care, with very little financial, emotional, and practical support. Carers aren't celebrating & we're certainly not happy
2. #CarersWeek is supposed to be about unpaid carers - ie relatives or friends who provide care to a loved one/friend. Carer's week is *not* the time to celebrate the paid care workforce (as much as we love them too). Doing so just makes unpaid carers feel even more invisible.
PRAYER FOR THE SICK AND FOR THOSE WHO CARE FOR THEM
1. Dear St Martin, you were always tirelessly caring for the sick. During your lifetime and from your place in Heaven God allowed you to work many wonderful miracles. We pray for (name of sick person)
#Covid_19 #Covid19UK
1. Dear St Martin, you were always tirelessly caring for the sick. During your lifetime and from your place in Heaven God allowed you to work many wonderful miracles. We pray for (name of sick person)
#Covid_19 #Covid19UK
2. suffering now from sickness. Obtain for us from God the pardon of every sin and the health of mind and body necessary for our state in life.
Help us to use with wisdom and with a thankful heart the health and strength God gives us
#StMartinDePorres #prayer #CatholicTwitter
Help us to use with wisdom and with a thankful heart the health and strength God gives us
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3. so that, following your example, our whole lives may be a song of thanksgiving and of praise to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Saint Martin, pray for us and for all who are sick.
Saint Martin, pray for us and for all who are sick.
