About Care Full Care Full is submitting a response to the consultation: Make Work Pay: Consultation on employment rights for unpaid carers and parents of seriously ill children. Care Full is a lived experience, not-for-profit organisation which believes we need to create an economy that enables us to care for ourselves, one another and the…

About the call for evidence The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a call for evidence into Carer’s Allowance, the main benefit for unpaid carers in England and Wales. The call for evidence was open in July and August 2026 and aims to ‘shape future policy thinking about how Carer’s Allowance can be modernised…

It’s Carers Week. Each year, in an awareness raising bid, charities and advocates for unpaid care join forces in support of a uniting theme. This year it’s ‘building carer friendly places’. But, at Care Full we’re gently prodding the format, and asking whether there’s power in being a little more ambitious? To us, this framing…

It is well-known that Hartlepool has some of the highest levels of deprivation in England, and that its council tax is higher than that of Kensington and Chelsea. This dangerous combination goes some way to explain Hartlepool’s un-exalted position of 3rd highest place in England for numbers of children in care. But, it doesn’t explain…

Last week, the Minister for Children and Families, Josh MacAllister MP, was interviewed by Sky News about the government’s plans to increase the number of foster carers. In the interview, MacAllister stated that “fostering isn’t work, it isn’t a job”, the IWGB union’s foster carers branch quickly responded, outlining the complexity, regulation and more that…