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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.
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
What’s behind the stubborn gender gap in Stem disciplines ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT in their column Science and Society
