Local MP teams up with Angela Rippon to support Carers Week
The theme for Carers Week 2011 is The True Face of Carers. It calls for greater recognition for the diverse range of people who have caring responsibilities. The work they carry out is vital for their families and friends, and for their communities.
Graham and Angela have joined together to pay tribute to carers, and to urge that they receive more support in their caring roles. Graham said: “Thousands of people in Beverley and Holderness sacrifice not only their time, but also their money and their health in order to care for a loved one. I am taking part in Carers Week to show my respect and appreciation for our carers. I also want to let them know that there are services out there to help them. Caring can be so incredibly demanding. It’s important that carers know that they don’t have to struggle on alone.”
Angela Rippon has personal experience of being a carer. She said: "For a number of years now I’ve become aware of the extraordinary job that carers do throughout this country. I feel that it’s important that anybody who has any knowledge at all stands up and be counted for them and make the job that they do public, because they should not be invisible, they should be out there and being seen as the heroes and heroines that they are.”
Carers Week is organised by a partnership of 9 national charities: Age UK, Carers UK, Counsel & Care, Crossroads Care, Dementia UK, Macmillan Cancer Support, MS Society, Parkinson’s UK, and The Princess Royal Trust for Carers.
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Carers of all degrees deserve a long overdue acknowledgement and clap on the back for the amazing work they undertake. WELL DONE ALL!!
I would like to ask is Graham Stuart is so passionate about Carers and Supporting them, what has he not don anything about the fair access to care services agenda, here the Conservative led ERYC changed the Eligibility Criteria depriving chronically I'll people access to services and putting increased demands on Carers, also cash made available Respite Care Short Breaks or Carers, was not ring fenced, an the additional cash was used to support deficits in other health authority budgets. Out of the estimated 56,000 Carers in East Yorkshire, approximately 2800 are registered and about 10 % have had meaningful careers. assessments. Not doubt it was the last government who spent all the cash, the global crisis, Carers don't register, I have heard it all before and if had a penny for every deflective answer, well I wouldn't need a 'handout' or be a burden on the local purse.
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