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'Trust us', Ministers say on the care Green Paper sums Charities working with older people, carers and disabled people are disappointed that the Government won't be publishing the financial modelling behind the care funding Green Paper until next year. With just ten days to the closure (13 November 2009) of the consultation on the green paper's funding options, stakeholders have been told that the financial…

Carers UK, with backing from the Daily Mirror, is calling for carers to be allowed extra time off work when they are unable to cope. One in five people looking after someone find it impossible to balance a job and caring. Carers UK is backing the Daily Mirror's caring for carers campaign and calling for carer's leave to be made law. This would give a…

The Prime Minister today announced that disabled and older people with critical needs will be entitled to free care in their homes. This would benefit up to 350,000 people and could mean families who are currently struggling to meet the costs of care could be hundreds of pounds better off. Gordon Brown said that from October 2010 those with the highest needs would get free…

Carers UK has issued a statement in response to the Conservative announcement of a policy for payment of residential care fees. Commenting on the Conservative party's new policy to prevent people from selling their homes to pay for residential care, Imelda Redmond, Chief Executive of Carers UK, said: "Following the Prime Minister's announcement on free personal care for the elderly last week, we are now…