“Parent carers like me have been living in poverty with our children for decades in Northern Ireland”
A Co Down children's nurse, who cares for her son with special needs, has criticised the ‘obscene’ impact of poverty on unpaid carers in Northern Ireland.The new Carer Poverty Commission will spend the next 12 months gathering evidence from local households and designing recommendations for the Stormont Executive to help tackle poverty and destitution among Northern Ireland’s carer population.
“Over ten years later, I still can’t get back into work, and the impact on my and my children's mental health has been terrible, meaning it’s even harder for me to provide for my family financially. It will deliver new research evidence on the scale and drivers of poverty among unpaid carers in Northern Ireland and the interventions that could make the biggest difference to tackling carer poverty, informing future policy development from the NI Assembly and Executive.
“We have to give up work or reduce our hours and we're living on low incomes, simply because the state is not fulfilling its statutory duty to our children.” “It is a scathing indictment of Northern Ireland that there are local carers today going hungry, sitting in the dark and having to rely on help from charities just to get through the week. That needs to change, and the new Carer Poverty Commission will leave no stone unturned in identifying and designing solutions that will make a genuine difference to the financial health of our unpaid carers.”
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