Celebrating Carers Week: sharing experiences
This June, Carers Week recognises and celebrates the UK’s hidden workforce of 13.6 million.
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HEALTH: Understanding sleep and pain
Sleep is an essential function, allowing our minds and bodies to recharge, develop and heal from illness. Despite its importance, as many as 16 million adults in the UK experience sleepless nights with nearly a quarter having no more than five hours of sleep each night.
Deserve To Be Heard: Women’s Aid highlight disabled survivors of domestic abuse amid calls for mental health support
For the month of December, Women’s Aid are working to amplify the voices of disabled women who have survived domestic abuse while calling for greater mental health support.
Carers: the right to support
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, unpaid carers have been left overworked and undervalued as they continue to take on additional responsibilities to care for their loved ones.
Menopause awareness: the M word and you
A passage in life that happens to all women and people with a cervix, despite half the population going through the menopause it is still continually misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
Dementia support: Care As You Are
Taking on a caring role for someone living with dementia can also mean a change in relationship as their condition deteriorates.
Social care: Boris Johnson announces first steps to reform
As the Prime Minister announces plans to reform health and social care in the UK, we look at what to expect and charities reveal their concerns.
FIRST HAND: a Mencap campaign assistant shares their experience of getting the COVID-19 vaccine
As people across the UK continue to get the first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Vijay, a campaign assistant at Mencap who has a learning disability himself, shares his experience .
Learning after an acquired brain injury
The classroom and education are critical for all developing young people. When a pupil is returning to the classroom after an acquired brain injury, knowing how to best support their needs is imperative. A new resource is here to help.
The hidden 13.6 million unpaid carers
With an exponential rise of unpaid carers during the pandemic and no increase in support provisions, the hidden workforce is at risk of being left behind.
The language of disability with Kray-Z Legz
As the world reopens, new research shows that language is a barrier in the connection between disabled and non-disabled people. It’s time to talk about the language of disability.
Applications for Changing Places £30 million funding pot now open with councils urged to apply
Councils are now being urged to apply for a share of a £30 million funding pot to install Changing Places Toilets in public places and tourist attractions.
Clinically vulnerable children and children living with at-risk adults to be offered COVID-19 vaccination
Children aged 12 and over who are classed as clinically vulnerable or living with at-risk adults will be offered a COVID-19 vaccine after Health Secretary Sajid Javid accepts the advice of scientific advisers.
The need for good care during Good Care Month
Carers provide a lifeline for both the people they look after and unpaid carers. This Good CareMonth we celebrate those continually giving back and call for more people in the profession.
BBC research has highlighted that disabled people have been forgotten during the pandemic
Research carried out by the BBC of over 3,300 deaf and disabled people shows the lasting impact of the pandemic on the disabled community.