Caring for unpaid carers

Last year, writer Emma Chesworth became a part-time carer and has found the role hugely fulfilling, as she explains here

LASTING POWER OF ATTORNEY

Loneliness can be an issue for the older generation. Look for the signs and offer a smile, say experts

The two groups most likely to be in poverty in the UK today are children and disabled people. But for families with a disabled child, life costs so much more. Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity m

Over 100,000 children in the UK are in care. That’s the population of a town like Maidstone or Wigan. Most are looked after by foster placements, but 19% in England are housed in residential accommoda

IT was one of those conversations on the bus that makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was saying to her companion