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Kim and Brian

Five million people in the UK balance work and care responsibilities

Carers Rights Day 2024: How to recognise your rights as a carer

Carers Rights Day 2024: How to recognise your rights as a carer

Alison Hume MP speaking in the House of Commons

Families 'devastated' over upcoming closure of Yorkshire charity

1.2 million carers in the UK are living in poverty: How Carers First can help

1.2 million carers in the UK are living in poverty: How Carers First can help

New carer support hub opens at Lincolnshire Hospital

New carer support hub opens at Lincolnshire Hospital

According to Carers UK, an estimated 12,000 people across the UK become carers every day, often without realising it

Are you a carer? Try this new tool to find out

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey arriving on stage to give his keynote speech at the party's autumn conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Sir Ed Davey says 'care and carers must not be forgotten and ignored'

Geoff and Jo Smith.

Watch: Dad walks again after having part of skull removed after stroke

More than 80% of carers need additional financial support

More than 80% of carers need additional financial support

Carers First Volunteers at the Boston United FC community fun day

Volunteering for Carers First: “It has changed my perspective on life”

Nearly three quarters of UK carers feel that their needs are not currently being met

Nearly three quarters of UK carers feel that their needs are not currently being...

(Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Giant pill box reminder for meals

Giant pill box reminder for meals

The money will people most in need

Families to get £200 via Household Support Fund - but funds are low

Households can receive financial support - but act quickly; funds are running low 💰

Alex Nelson

(Photos: Pexels)

Kids Club cinema - your guide to Kids Clubs and discounts this summer

What do carers want to know from their local candidates in the General Election?

What do carers want to know from their local candidates in the General Election?

Boy, 3, is rescued from railway track by man at Newark Northgate Station.

Watch: Boy, 3, rescued from railway track seconds before train passes

Caroline's transformation to living her best life

Self Care helps carer give even more

Britain's Labour Party politician and Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting speaks to a television crew outside the BBC in London, June 16, 2024, in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Alarming lack of urgency in Labour's plan for social care: Mike Padgham

Carers Tea Party in Tong, Bradford

Carers Week 2024 – Putting carers on the map

School classroom.

Watch: How to appeal if you don’t get your first choice primary school

Ambulance explodes and bursts into flames in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.

Watch: Ambulance explodes into a fireball after dropping off patient

Better leisure centres offer a range of activites

'Better' Leisure centres offer membership deal to Yorkshire carers

Julie Brown, from Filey, one of the first newly approved foster carers to receive a £500 golden hello Picture: NYC

'Start paying fair allowances or face an exodus of people willing to foster'

The Prince of Wales meets Rob Burrow, his wife Lindsey Burrow and their children during a visit to Headingley Stadium, Leeds, to award him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). PIC: Phil Noble/PA Wire

Unpaid carers are often forgotten by politicians - Andrew Vine

Everybody who watched last week’s thought-provoking documentary about carers featuring former Leeds Rhinos rugby league star Rob Burrow and his wife, Lindsey, must have been profoundly moved.

Andrew Vine

Kate Garraway, with her husband Derek Draper and her parents Gordon and Marilyn Garraway, after being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services to broadcasting, journalism and charity by the Prince of Wales during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, Berkshire in June 2023.

Kate Garraway has revealed uphill challenges that carers face: Sarah Todd

Yorkshire Building Society has been named as one of the UK’s top ten family-friendly employers by independent work-life balance charity Working Families. (Photo supplied by the Press Association)

Yorkshire Building Society named in top ten family-friendly employers

Solicitor Daxa Patel sat on her father's memorial bench in Golden Acre park in Leeds.

Why much more needs to be done to support older bereaved carers - Daxa Patel

Top things carers wish they'd known

The top 14 things unpaid carers wish they'd known at the start

Allergy sufferers told to ‘immediately’ contact their GP after adrenalin pens recalled

Allergy sufferers hit with warning as epi pens recalled by government

Helen Morgan is the Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire. PIC: UK Parliament

Caring is a skilled job and should be paid appropriately - Helen Morgan

Dreamboys fulfil 92-year-old woman’s dream of seeing male striptease

92-year-old woman fulfils life-long dream of seeing male striptease

(Composite: NationalWorld/Nothern Trains)

Key workers and carers offered 25% rail travel discount

Network has partnered with train operator Northern, to offer keyworker discounts on Advance Purchase tickets

New 25% Northern discount announced for key workers

They are the kind of vivid blue sapphires whose lustre has been lusted over for centuries. Yet these wondrous stones have lain unseen for years – and may even have ended up in the bin.

Jewellery hoard worth thousands found wrapped in carrier bags

Members of the National Education Union (NEU) during a rally in Manchester, as teachers in the north of England begin the first of three days of nationwide strike action in a long-running dispute over pay.

Look at school car parks leaves me questioning teacher strikes: Sarah Todd

Carers receive a weekly allowance to help with the costs of fostering including meals and school uniforms. Photo: Adobe

Yorkshire foster parents demand cost of living increase to allowance

NHS staff and care workers given free access to live events as Concerts for Care...

Should the Covid vaccine be compulsory for carers?

Vaccine must be compulsory for carers to save lives – Yorkshire Post Letters

A bottle of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Covid vaccinations to become mandatory for care home staff

The vaccine rollout will proceed down the age bands of adults (Photo: Getty Images)

Frontline workers and BAME groups won’t be next in line for Covid vaccine - prio...

Nightclubs, gigs, cinemas and theatres are expected to have to wait until September before they can reopen (Photo: Getty Images)

Nightclubs and theatres expected to stay closed until 90% of UK have had Covid j...

The next five priority groups should be invited for their first vaccine dose by the end of April (Photo: Getty Images)

This is who will get Covid vaccine next as rollout moves into new phase

Care workers, like these here in Sheffield, deserve all our thanks and gratitude. (Picture Tony Johnson).

Don’t blame the care home angels – give them your thanks: Christa Ackroyd

Carers Week is an annual event which takes place each year, celebrating the fantastic work of carers in the UK (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when national Carers Week 2020 takes place - and special discounts for ca...

People in England who were shielding can now leave their homes as lockdown eases...

To thank the NHS workers who are working tirelessly throughout the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Thursday 26 March will see a #ClapForOurCarers event dedicated to them (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here's how to take part in tonight's national applause to thank key workers

Professor Graham Leslie

Yorkshire philanthropist releases song to support Carers' Trust during pandemic

Captain Tom Moore raised a huge £12.5 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden (Photo: PA)

Here’s what you need to know about NHS Charities Together as Captain Tom raises ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street, London, joining in with a national applause for the NHS to show appreciation for all NHS workers who are helping to fight the Coronavirus.

Why Boris Johnson’s bluff and bluster isn’t hitting home – Jayne Dowle

Boris Johnson (right) and Matt Hancock, the Health and Social Care Secretary (left), have repeatedly failed to publish their social care reform plans.

Privileged politicians don’t understand the pain of countless families being plu...

The changes have seen state pensions rise, but many are faced with having their benefits frozen for the fourth year in a row (Photo: Shutterstock)

Benefit and state pension rates changed yesterday - here's what you need to know

A survey is giving carers a chance to have their say.

It’s time for army of carers to have their say - Yorkshire Post Letters

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