Fiona Brown

[Carers Trust @CarersTrust]

Carer's Allowance was introduced in 1976 and turns 50 this year. Whilst the world has changed beyond recognition, the benefit has stayed largely frozen in time. Carer's Allowance no longer serves its purpose and needs to catch up with modern life. ➡️ https://t.co/r8ibI1ZGI4

[Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell]

I was paid £15 a day to wash hair 30 years ago.

Today I provide complex care for my disabled daughter.

The allowance? £12.35 a day.

Thirty years later, unpaid care is valued at less than washing hair was back then.

@AndyBurnhamGM @YvetteCooperMP @GMB @EdwardJDavey

[Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell]

The complex care unpaid carers provide is valued at around £12.35 a day.

But when an unpaid carer can no longer continue…

…the same care has to be funded.

Care agencies are often commissioned at £20+ an hour.

The care didn’t change.

Only the value placed on it did

[Ruth Swailes @SwailesRuth]

Always worth remembering that every single one of us, no matter how wealthy or successful is just one accident, incident or diagnosis away from needing support in some form or other, whether it’s financial, medical or physical. Your life can turn on a sixpence.

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

I’ve been following this guy on Tik Tok. He’s 63, worked all his life and has found himself out of a job. He’s applying for loads and at the same time claiming job seekers. The job centre have made him do a brick laying course or they will cut off his allowance. Shocking system.
The course is basically killing him. He’s had chest pains during it. He’s 63! He’s only been out of work for 6 weeks. Seems so crazy.

[Jonny Harvey @jonnyharvey11]

Dear Jeremy Clarkson, I served my country on operations and my body paid the price, so I believe I don’t need to say thank you, as I earned the benefits I get … and some! Sincerely, a Disabled RAF Veteran whose government chinned him off when he was no longer useful! 😏 😜

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hi @andyburnham I spoke today to a friend whose father had Alzheimer’s. He told me that last year the council was paying around £900 a week for carers to visit four times a day, providing a combined total of about two hours of care per day.

That works out at approximately £64 per hour of delivered care to the agency.

While many care workers providing the actual visits are paid around £16 per hour.

For comparison, an experienced NHS Band 6 nurse earns around £20 per hour.

Why are taxpayers paying such high rates to private care providers when the frontline workers themselves receive a much smaller proportion of the cost?

Would a publicly provided model, with qualified nurses and care workers employed directly by the NHS or local authorities, provide better value and more consistent support, rather than relying on care agencies that often deliver short, offer fragmented visits, charge a fortune, and make extortionate profits?

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

True

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Carers' Allowance is capped at £86 a week. Or £70,000 a year if you're a private equity firm that has bought a care home.

[Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell]

Today’s irony…

I spent 10 hours training a carer for my daughter’s NHS CHC package. At the end she asked, “Do you work?”

Who do you think trained you today?

Not the ICB. Not the care provider. The unpaid carer.

I’m doing my job and theirs. I am bloody working.
#unpaidcarers

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

Andy Burnham is entirely right to say the hard hat should be as well regarded as a cap & gown. In Switzerland less than 25% of young people go to university, but they have really well supported apprenticeship schemes & people recognise the vital economic importance of trades.

[Christine McClements @Chris_McClem]

The Disability Strategy is simply not good enough and disabled ppl and carers deserve better than this unsupported, unfunded, unambitious, underwhelming dud Strategy.

Minister Lyons needs to start listening to the concerns of the disabled community 👇

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Rupert Lowe, 2019: It should be easier for people from India to get a visa to come to the UK
Rupert Lowe, 2026: Why is it so easy for people from India to get a visa to come to the UK?

[Jon Burrows MLA @JonBurrowsMLA]

This was an appalling abuse of trust on victims who were amongst the most vulnerable in our society. A custodial sentence was appropriate dor proper punishment & deterrent. I will write to the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the unduly lenient sentence mechanism.

[Christine McClements @Chris_McClem]

The breach of trust and cruelty involved in demeaning a vulnerable person who is totally defenseless is just horrific.

Also these crimes put so much fear into the minds of all the people & families reliant on 'care' services.

[KissingTheCockroach™ 💜💋🪳 @cockroachkisser]

FFS Exhausted Twitter….. 🖤💜💋

[Allison Morris @AllisonMorris1]

@NoraTheBora Didn’t say WRN are hateful or right wing, I’ve said those who jumped to support WRN this week are and demonstrably so, which should make you think whose agenda this serves - this is not feminism it’s serving only the patriarchy that has oppressed women in NI since its formation

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.

[Christine McClements @Chris_McClem]

A massive issue for us as Lilia is a wheelchair user. As well as there not being enough fully accessible accommodation, it's also very hard to find info on accessibility

BBC News - 'There's nowhere we can stay': The holiday struggle facing disabled people
https://t.co/Y5q0OIygJX

[Mrs O 🙋‍♀️ FCCT @kateowbridge]

If teachers were contracted for 52 weeks per year, with the bank holidays and 4 weeks paid leave like lots of other industries, the country could not afford the workforce pay increases. (More contracted hours = more pay)