We want to build a better future where our social security system supports carers and the people they care for to live with dignity. 💚

Are you with us?

People looking after loved ones who are disabled, ill, or older and in need of support should NEVER have to worry about whether they can afford food.

But right now, 1 in 6 people referred to food banks in our network are unpaid carers.

❌ This isn’t right. ❌

Despite 900,000 people living with dementia in the UK, it doesn't have a national clinical pathway. Integrated care systems can play a 'crucial role' in improving dementia care but support is needed from the government & NHS to deliver this, read more ⬇️ kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

The brute truth is that successive Tory attempts to run economy and society around reducing the state, cutting public investment and hollowing out public services has caused economic decline and acute social distress. Now deservedly they reap the whirlwind.

The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no electricity

[📹 Never Enough Architecture]

Finally a golden retriever actually retrieving something 😂

I think - and have always thought - that Keir Starmer is quite wrong not to call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza. And that to criticise Israel for its war crimes is not #Antisemitism . We should not be arming Israel to kill Palestinians.

Can anyone clarify whether, when the govt claims it has been spending £millions more on the #NHS , its figures include the wasting of £millions on useless #PPE and thro fraud, during #Covid ?

Ridiculous: Rishi Sunak is refusing to rule out raising the retirement age to pay for his NI cut. Sign the petition and tell him not to make us work longer to pay for his plan: 38d.gs/f4ef

Contrast this with the mean, short sightedness of Uk approaches to welfare - esp low levels of #UniversalCredit & #Carers #Allowances

Dutch city pilots radical debt cancellation scheme for poor families theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Profiteering has no place in the care of vulnerable teenagers. What a mess - & these kids are paying the true price. #GeneralElectionN0W !

Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Free Iranian protest rapper Toomaj Salehi #FreeToomaj - Sign the Petition! chng.it/SXPL8gfbc4 via Change.org UK

Tory ‘social destruction of #austerity ’ has badly damaged #theNHS .
#GeneralElectionN0W !

Jammed 999 lines and not enough ambulances to go round: come see the sharp end of this NHS crisis | Polly Toynbee theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

EXCL: UK taxpayers have paid out more than £34,000 to cover cost of science minister Michelle Donelan’s libel case - more than double the sum the government previously admitted.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Where is our money going?
On ads on GB News
UK Tory Govt is biggest advertiser on GB News, spending more than £1 million of our taxpayer's money on ads Byline Times

So when that tax is coming out of your pay packet, think about that
#GeneralElectionNOW
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/09/wer…

The Conservatives' broken rental promises can't be ignored. I'm demanding UK political leaders give renters the rights they deserve. Join me and add your name to the People’s Pledge for Renters now: 38d.gs/mq64

Govt resisting £5k #renewable measures to fit to a new build house whereas retrofit wd cost £20k.
Madness! #GeneralElectionlNow !

England could produce 13 times more renewable energy, using less than 3% of land – analysis theguardian.com/environment/20…

Carers threatened with prosecution over minor breaches of UK benefit rules theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

And did they also cost the pay-offs to ⁦Boris Johnson⁩ & ⁦Prime Minister Liz Truss⁩ as former PMs? And costs of their security teams? Tory chaos under Sunak has cost UK taxpayers £8.2bn, says Labour theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Biden could stop the slaughter in Gaza with a single call. Sign the petition to demand he stops arming Israel: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ra…