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Everyone would benefit from more CARING places and attitudes. In work and communities. Have you got a story about CARE?

Especially when struggling - eg young people starting out ... When we are in trouble or not at our best or alone.

08/07/2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012qh4

Ai-jen Poo argues that we should all value caring, and carers.

01/07/2022

Not posted in a while as so much has happened these last couple of years.
So much personal loss and - at the same time - so much caring required for elderly members of the family.
So many world events have changed the landscape. Covid. The war in Ukraine. Mental health tsunami in all age groups. And Covid has highlighted the lack of respect, support and pay for caregivers.
Not sure this page has enough clarity for readers on what it actually aims to highlight. Will be reviewing.
Any suggestions welcomed.

07/11/2021

The traveller and TV presenter Simon Reeve on his quest to have a baby after being told he was infertile

11/09/2021

Who needs you most? Your adult child to help with young grandchildren? Your older parents? Or your teen going through a tough time?

Yourhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/11/how-to-cope-when-both-your-kids-and-your-parents-need-help?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Who can look after my 95-year-old mum? How do I support my troubled teen? Experts’ top tips for the sandwich generation crushed by conflicting demands

16/11/2020

Important - but distressing. Not acceptable.

Are promises to improve care for people with learning disabilities and autism being kept?

10/11/2020

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/ballet/new-york-dancer-alzheimers-remembers-swan-lake/

The moving moment a former ballerina with Alzheimer’s listens to Tchaikovsky, and her years of training come rushing back.

18/10/2020

Talking about C-A-R-E

What I discovered, in five years of research, was a vital activity distorted by a desire for tickbox efficiency and value for money, says author Madeleine Bunting

06/10/2020

Keep caring about mental health. Whatever stage of life.
Loneliness across all ages - loss - feeling like you’re letting people down - being worried about failure - no one - no one should feel like that and yet a lot of people can’t or won’t relate. Perhaps they haven’t had to.
Nearly didn’t read this but it’s uplifting and hopeful.

Having ‘Hope’ is important. 💕

Heroic veteran Captain Tom Moore fought back tears as he revealed he has set up a mental health foundation in memory of his wife. The 100-year-old national treasure said The Captain Tom Foundation would strive to give people “a little bit of hope” to combat loneliness. The charity will aim t.....

04/10/2020

Haven’t posted in a while. This is worth reading x

'We sprang Grandma from the care home'

Rita Perrott went into a care home, but then visiting was curtailed. Her family didn't want her to die alone.

09/07/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/09/care-workers-coronavirus-poverty-sickness-statutory-sick-pay?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

They look after our loved ones but are often forced to ignore sickness as statutory sick pay is such a pittance, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

30/04/2020

There have been reports of parents in Scotland being turned away for bringing children along

29/04/2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0sw2

The foreign care workers who look after Britain’s elderly and disabled people

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Why we all need to stand together for Care - 0 to 100

Care 0 to 100 is set up as a new community and campaigning group in the UK because (to put it one way...) to NOT set it up became impossible! The need for care-mindful policies has never been greater. We hope to challenge people in decision-making positions to properly support ‘care-giving’ time. Our hope is that we can raise the bar, have conversations about CARE in the UK/worldwide - and secure policies that truly makes a difference in people’s day to day lives. It’s about Health, Education, Social Care and Community - and a lot more. It’s about everyone’s life at one time or another - giving and receiving care is part of what it means to live in a civilised society.

It’s also about changing the language of CARE so that it’s respected and celebrated as EQUAL life-enhancing activity in all ways.

This group intends to be an inter-generational group, bringing together the care of children (unpaid/under-supported), older people and indeed anyone we care about, whether at home or in our communities, 0 to 100. It also reaches out to people whose paid work is in the care/early years & childcare/social care or elder care sector. In this way it differs from other groups, because it recognises that ALL care is important regardless of age. It’s a campaign with a ‘lifelong’ perspective, recognising that people care in different ways across their lifetimes.

Not only is the importance of CARE not reflected in policies but also it’s conspicuous by its absence in media coverage. Often caregivers find themselves without a voice and (largely due to the nature of what’s involved) it can also be difficult to find supportive community.

People say they would like a kinder and fairer world and agree that there’s no greater contribution we can make that when we’re caregiving, yet it’s taken for granted as if it doesn’t ‘count’. In reality not everything that counts /matters in life can easily be counted in GDP (£) , but perhaps it’s time for GDP to include a measure of the value of caregiving work.

Also it’s about caregivers having a VOICE - it’s clear that people’s voices, young and old, at home and in work, needs to be more clearly HEARD and respected. And for people to work more closely together, rather than being artificially separated by age.

We may not realise it yet, but many of us will provide care for others during our lifetime and all of us absolutely depend on care at certain points - in childhood, in ill health or older age.

About me:

I am a mum of four, a sister, a daughter, friend, niece and campaigner (with elderly relatives I help to support). I have a background in Social Policy and Research, campaigning and community/voluntary work, In recent years I became increasingly aware of the lack of a ‘umbrella-platform’ for caregiving individuals, whether unpaid, invisible- or indeed people who care for others for a living but who are sadly paid a shockingly low hourly rate.

My background after graduating (and before starting a family) was in Qualitative Research (depth interviews and focus groups). I then studied and worked in Social Policy and have been campaigning for some 20 years, attending conferences, workshops etc . I am usually the one on the side who asks the question ‘What about Care?’ People come up to me in the break to say ‘What you said is so true....’ They often open up about their own caregiving experiences.

I am non party political and non faith based in my work. In recent years I qualified to work as a teacher in Early Years. In my spare time I volunteer on wards in my local hospital with elderly patients. In previous years I’ve volunteered for other charities, including art therapy with dementia patients, supporting young families (for example providing transport to hospital and GP appointments etc) and I’ve helped run parenting support groups (qualifying through the Open College Network). My work has straddled different age groups from babies to people in older age: I have worked with young children with autism - and I also spent some years in Social Research interviewing teenagers without employment who struggle to gain their independence. I was a voluntary home -visitor for some years in London, visiting elderly individuals without family nearby. Loneliness and lack of connection seems to be a growing issue, so the voluntary sector often makes a big difference.

I studied Languages at University in the UK, but I’ve also been privileged to live and work in other countries. I am currently on the board of a Europe-wide campaigning group (FEFAF) that stands up for invisible unpaid care work. We scrutinise policy documents and we campaign to ensure that the work of caregiving is not forgotten. This involves attending policy meetings, making recommendations about ‘care’ policies. I have also worked with Mothers At Home Matter Too which campaigns for better recognition when mothers are caring for children, however long or short that period might be.

Join Care 0 to 100 to try to establish a forum for better recognition of what people do when they’re busy CARING. Not all caring can be contracted out to others. Unpaid, invisible family work really matters and should be supported with better fiscal/welfare policies. more flexible employment etc . But it also matters that people are properly rewarded and appreciated and respected in paid caring work. How we treat our caregivers should reflect the kind of society we want for future generations.