Those who work in carer jobs or even homecare jobs will understand how exhausting it can be. A care worker who lives in Northern Ireland has stated that she feels like a workhorse and this is all down to the staff shortage.

Grandparents are now being forced into running up huge debts so that they can look after their grandchildren. This is because the parents cannot look after them. Nearly 200,000 children who are in the United Kingdom are being brought up by another family member, other than their parents and studies show that this burden is now falling on grandparents. Take Maureen Seed for example, who lives in Wakefield.

A staggering 92 per cent of British disabled people don’t feel confident visiting new places due to accessibility ‘worries’ and 83 per cent admit they've experienced difficult to access facilities in the past, a new report has found.

Carer Positive is actually funded by the Scottish government. It launched in June 2014 and it is operated by Carers Scotland. The aim of this is to increase the amount of carer jobs and homecare jobs in Scotland. It is also designed to help those who work in business aswell, so that employers can be given the chance to try and support carers and the work that they do.

A long-awaited Select Committee Inquiry has slammed the assessment of Government disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), branding assessors as “at best lacking in competence and at worst actively deceitful”.

TV star Gloria Hunniford is one of many celebrities backing Public Health England’s (PHE) Act FAST stroke campaign, which urges the public to call 999 if they notice signs of a stroke in themselves, or in others.

The Government has announced an extra £150m for social care which ‘will be allocated according to relative needs’.

Learning disability charity Mencap has supported calls for the law to be strengthened around cyberbullying, following a petition from model and TV personality Katie Price.

Around 20,000 people in the UK are receiving ‘flying care visits’ lasting for only 15 minutes, with at least 18,875 people receiving these visits for support with intimate personal care, new research shows. This is despite guidance in the Care Act of 2014 stating these types of visits were 'not appropriate' for people requiring intimate care support.

Hip fracture patients can wait up to 80 days before seeing a physiotherapist at home after being discharged from hospital, new research suggests.