THe followed “care” sitting in a strange place in the UK politics, though compiled the increasing urgency of urgency in the urgency of rupture. Most of us know that there is an aggravated care crisis. The Reasons, We Are Told, Are To Do With Demographics – More Old People, Put Bluntly – And The Seemingly Eternal Lack Of Money, Or Governments Willing To Spend Enough On The Kind Of Care Most Politicians Fixate On: The Sort That Revolves Or Home Visits, Done By The Anonymous Mass of people we call “Care Workers”. This person’s category is now in the news that has never been: many of them have from abroad, something currently in Westminster The decided could not be restrained.
What is a rough issue, and how many debate matters about it does not have – not the requirements of caring for hundreds of children with disabled. But at the greatest gap of our understanding of centers of 7 million unpaid carerswhose lives are explored with a new book. Unusual, it was written by a ceasefire with Frontline British. Still wonderful, the best legs are one of the most compelling, moving pieces of political prose I have read for a long time.
The writer of Why do I care: And why nursing things are the liberal leader in Democrat, Ed Davey. The first third pointed his own story of life: his or her mother’s care experience lost cancer lost his teenagers, and his life and his Wife, Emily – And their daughter, Ellie – about his son John, who was born with physical and intellectual disability.
Like all parents, Davey experienced joy and anxiety, but in extreme surplus. As parent of a child With the special needs of education, I know his deep fear about the future awaiting his son after his parents lost: “There is no love for him.” And about all he said was full of a mixture of frustration and bafflement that was perfectly related, mostly focused on our government and political systems in what was left in the state of good condition.
Too much by definition, what Davey called the family careers forced, often fallen asleep, overwhelming life. Many people need to cope with mental health problems. More than 1 million are considered to Live in poverty. The attempts to calculate the amount of money on what carers do, he says, put the long number at the same level in the UK’s annual cost. But how often do we hear about any of these?
Family care is a part of living political life in Keir Starmer and Siela Rayner;; It’s also available David Cameron’s story. But what policies are asking as badly: in a political culture rarely see issues about budgets about debates about close relatives. There is, in addition, a problem with distracting Westminster concepts about what life causes: Politicians worry about them as “working families” that are “hard-related families.
As a result, deprivation and administrations gather. The UK does not have a paid leave system for Family Familiar: A study Davey Quotes suggests that 40% of people giving high level of family care must Give work completely. Many injustices are mounted on the lives of young carers – who should begin to see the needs of the brothers and parents in the young days when they do at home.
As I read Davey’s book, Private Meart’s private magazine gave this year Paul Foot Award For investigating journalism with my guardian colleagues Josh Haller and Patrick Butler, for their work with many people receiving the carer’s allowance (which is £ 830 a week) accused for an unintentional breakdown Rules of violent income. Everyone falls on a significant part of the benefits system that remain in place: the fact that earns a penny in a weekly threshold of £ 151 – today raised at £ 196 – means the whole carman’s allowance of a person is humiliated; And if relevant systems do not understand any accident in excess of income limit, “overpayments” of days loaded with pressures with impossible demands.
Government announced an overhaul addressed to Spotting overpayments more quickly, but all it is sure the last example shown by the callers shown in the benefits they receive, not just the mocking systems of people to lie and deceive Strark Recent Headline: “The mother of autistic boy left with £ 10,000 debt after breaking DWP rules by £ 1.92 a week”). The way to treat opiciantom in any combination of work and care, further, shows the rules about education: but any time learning to take care of a way you lose the good.
And now there is another level of violence. Government plans to cut millions of rights to Personal Independence Payment have knock-on effects for carers, estimated estimated estimates 150,000 people In the carer’s allowance or the element of the universal credit carer who means many households will hit twice. Clearly, it is more proof of how short carers.
There may be one or two rays of light. No Care Care is mostly lost from most of the Prlurb who launched the government’s independent inquiry to social adult care, but Louise Casey – the cross-bench peer leading its work – yet the conversation process begins Joined Family Careers. But the surrounding political context remains grim: Westminsters muss are about care as well as the myopic repositions to the elderly places to pay for places that are not good to recruit them more difficult.
Until the end of his book, Davey asked some questions about different subjects. “What happens when we start free time to care and paid them with minimum wages?” She thinks. “What happens when we look at families whose true crisis is not good and inaccessible to a child – and is taking a right to a child care – and it is applied to a thousand carers we know?”
I still have a couple. As our society is fast, what happens if most of us start to experience life as family care, and need to deal with our responsibilities with other people? And what does a strong political model and economics hold that, unless we have a paid job, can we take into account? This will be two of the central questions in the next 10 years, and when they finally hit us, they change everything. Davey, his credit, seems to know that. Why do many other politicians face their eyes?
