We are very pleased to have our latest recruit
, Mokgadi Muleya, joining the team here in Edinburgh.
Mo has a wealth of experience to bring to our valued clients and has recently relocated to Edinburgh from Leicester. With her sunny disposition, we are delighted to have Mo on board!
Everycare West Kent is delighted to announce it has been given a Top 20 homecare provider award for 2023. This is the second year in a row we have won the prestigious award from Home Care UK.
It is marvellous that all the hard work and dedication of our wonderful care professionals has been recognised. We look forward to providing all our incredible clients with the same support over the next 12 months.
The Everycare West Kent team were presented with their award recently at our Tunbridge Wells office.
People leaving work to care for someone are losing out on nearly £6,000 per year in income on average, new figures suggest.
More than 5 million people provide some form of unpaid care, according to the latest census figures, with 2 million doing so for more than 20 hours per week.
But taking time out from work to care for others means they face an effective penalty of almost £500 per month, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) estimated. This can rise to as high as £9,000 per year after six years of providing unpaid care, it said.
This is because most of these carers are unable to find other sources of income, with more than a quarter not receiving a pension, carers’ allowance or universal credit, the foundation found.
Abby Jitenda, of the JRF, said: “It’s not right that unpaid carers on low incomes are losing out on thousands of pounds, and being pushed into poverty as they can no longer work, while providing much-needed care that benefits us all.”
Earlier this year, Parliament passed the Carer’s Leave Act, which is designed to give unpaid carers one week of unpaid leave a year. However, Ms Jitenda added this did not go far enough to stop people from dropping out of work when care needs intensified.
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