Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Unpaid carers (full disclosure, I am one) while potentially gaining Carers' Allowance (despite the attrition of the DWP against those who are supplementing that through part-time work) are offering a massive subsidy to the country & its allocation of funds to social care.</p><p>In 2024 the Center for Care estimated the value of that unpaid care to be around £184bn... and just to put that in perspective that's nearly (although not quite) equal to the total NHS budget!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCare</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>