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Unpaid carers are 'suffering and ignored'

A Coleraine mother who cares for her two children with complex needs says carers feel invisible and left behind as a new employment law comes into force in the rest of the UK.

A Coleraine mother who cares for her two children with complex needs says carers feel invisible and left behind as a new employment law comes into force in the rest of the UK. The new law allows people in England, Scotland and Wales to take unpaid leave to care for someone.
Natasha McClelland tells us the health and social care system would 'completely collapse' without unpaid carers like her, yet they are 'suffering and ignored'.
Craig Harrison, from Carers NI, says that the right to caring leave in Northern Ireland needs to be 'enshrined in law'.

58 minutes

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  • Fri 5 Apr 2024 08:00