Emma has endorsed Labour’s plans to improve support for Britain’s 5.4 million unpaid family carers. The plans, announced by Labour’s Shadow Minister for Care and Older People Liz Kendall MP, would give carers the right to ask for an annual health check, and would...
Campaigners from the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB) met with Emma in Parliament last week to share the organisation’s new report Being There When It Matters, which calls for blind and partially sighted people across the UK to have access to sight...
This week Emma warned MPs and Ministers that hundreds of thousands of care staff across the UK are being paid less than the minimum wage, with damaging consequences for social care. Emma spoke in a debate on care workers called by the Labour MP Andrew Smith. She...
Emma has endorsed Labour’s plans to transform the care system to make care more personalised and to prioritise the needs of families, after the Shadow Care Minister Liz Kendall set out the choice facing the British public in next year’s election. Emma also warned that...
Emma raised the issue of funeral poverty at Health Questions On Tuesday, asking the Government to look at ways it can improve advice for families to help them plan funerals for a loved one who is approaching the end of their life. Currently people receiving end of...
