Campaign blog

Carers take their case to Westminster
04 December 2008 Today and tomorrow carers from across the country will be taking their case to MPs. Today a group of over a hundred carers will go to Westminster to tell MPs why they need urgent help and support. Tomorrrow on Carers Rights Day there will be over 1000 events across the country and thousands more carers will meet their MPs to press home the point that carers are in crisis.

Carers target MP's as support for campaign gathers pace
05 September 2008 As MP's back our calls for improvements to carer benefits Carers Uk is organising a lobby of Parliament and there is news of a carer led day of action for April 2009.

The campaign continues
04 August 2008 In June the government published the National Strategy for Carers. We had hoped that it would contain some improvements to carers benefits but there were none. Carers were very disappointed and angry. However the Strategy does promise a review of carer benefits so we are determined to redouble our campaigning efforts.

'Real Change not Short Change' campaign milestones
03 December 2007 A look back at the campaign from November 2006 to November 2007.

Send your postcard to the PM
11 September 2007 The Prime Minister says he is setting up a commission on carers. All the more reason to send him your message that carers want real change not short change.

#2 : Launch of campaign postcards
17 July 2007 Carers UK continues it's 'real change not short change' campaign by sending out thousands of campaign postcards to carers and organisations across the UK.

# 1 : Getting the word out
14 June 2007 "Mr. Brown, you are inheriting a ticking time bomb. If not addressed soon this issue could be what brings this country to its knees and you along with it." That's the message one carer has sent. Only two weeks into the campaign and already over 1000 carers have already signed up online to support the campaign and send their message to Gordon Brown.