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Focusing on carers


This Carers Week, I’ve been speaking carers in Bicester, Woodstock, Kidlington and Eynsham about the challenges they’re facing.


As your Labour MP candidate for the new constituency of Bicester and Woodstock, I have heard from:


  • parents raising children with mental health conditions or disabilities, desperately trying to get the support they need from public services.

  • people in their eighties caring for partners with dementia

  • organisations supporting young people who care for their own parents or siblings.

  • grandparents who have stepped in to raise their grandchildren as kinship carers


I stepped in as live-in carer for my late Mum near Woodstock, so I have experience of this issue. It’s a hard time to be a carer with our NHS is on its knees and our public services crumbling.


Here's what Labour will do:

  • reform social care, building towards a National Care Service where people are helped to stay in their homes for as long as possible

  • end the workforce crisis in social care, recruiting and retaining more carers.

  • support unpaid carers by giving them paid family carer’s leave and join up services so families don’t have to battle their way around the system.


PS the photo shows me with Eynsham resident Elsa who cares for her daughter Elisa. They tell me they’re excited about the chance for a change of government.

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