New support for carers doesn’t provide much
NEW government measures aimed at supporting unpaid carers were criticised yesterday for promising to provide very little.
The two-year plan includes a scheme to boost employment help for carers and a £500,000 innovations fund to find fresh methods of support.
The MS Society’s Genevieve Edwards expressed concern at a lack of “any real commitment” to increase financial support for carers in the package, but she welcomed measures to encourage flexible working.
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