{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f80495dc7de3c567dafc18d/5fb50919311e753b77e61390?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 3","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f80495dc7de3c567dafc18d/1605699647789-91e8c018229f0c33892c9e2e502d449b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>Thursday 26 November 2020 is Carers Rights Day</strong>. </p><p>This is a national day that helps to ensure unpaid carers are aware of their rights and know where to get help and support. </p><p>To mark Carers Rights Day, Carers Network is launching this new episode of their ‘<strong>Living Through Lockdown’</strong> podcast series featuring an interview with Hammersmith MP Andy Slaughter.</p><p>In the episode, Carers Network’s Chair Nadia Taylor – who cares for her parents and husband in Hammersmith, talks with Andy Slaughter MP about the particular challenges facing unpaid carers.</p><p>They discuss how <strong>the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of caring</strong>, affecting carers’ access to services and activities and their physical and mental health. Carers are more isolated than ever before.</p><p>As well as wanting to bring these issues to the forefront this Carers Rights Day he urges us to <em>“celebrate the fantastic achievements of carers and the efforts that are going in to beat the crisis at the moment …. I absolutely appreciate what every single carer in the borough, and indeed across the country, does. I particularly want to say thank you to Carers Network because without the support you give, people will be in a much worse condition both practically but also morally and mentally.”</em> Andy Slaughter MP</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Carers Network"}