OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Good morning. So the clocks have changed and the mornings are dark once more. Enjoy a lie in if you can x 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Good morning . I wonder how many #OccupationalTherapists are online.? 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 09/11/2025www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tens-of-thou...disabilitynewsservice.comTens of thousands tell government: We reject any plans to cut PIPTens of thousands of disabled people and allies have made clear to the government that they reject any plans to cut spending on personal independence payment (PIP) and other disability-related supp… 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 23/10/2025This week in #OTs&Carers #OT_Carer #Carer #Disabiliy news @theRCOT @carers-uk.bsky.social CarersUK published their statement of caring survey www.carersuk.org/policy-and-r... showing that carers report not having their needs met .carersuk.orgState of Caring survey | Carers UK 110
Reposted by OT_CarersUniteCarers Scotland @carersscotland.bsky.social · 18/10/2025We're delighted to be at Scottish Green Party conference showcasing priorities for change for unpaid carers in the next Scottish Parliament. If you're at the conference, come and visit our National Carer Organisation stand in the marquee. @scottishgreens.org 011
Reposted by OT_CarersUniteCarers UK @carers-uk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Do you ever feel like you have no one to talk to? Join us for a session with The Almond Tree Foundation that explores the main causes of isolation and loneliness and what you can do to support yourself. go.carersuk.org/4gXXmXF 021
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Its a l9vely sunny day on the sputh coast of England. There's a gentle breeze.. 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Just wondering how many have moved across from other social media sites to here. I cannot manage to duplicate posts. #Carer #UnpaidCarer #FamilyCarer #OT #OccupationalTherapy #OccupationalTherapist 021
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 25/07/20251.. #UnpaidCarers should be given free financial advice re the impact of giving up employment, benefits entitlement, and pension payments. They should be supported to pay into a pension and offered 'trade union' support regardless if whether they are employed. #OT_Carer 100
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 15/07/2025www.surveymonkey.com/r/QNFLPB3?ut...surveymonkey.comState of Caring Survey 2025Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free. 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 05/07/2025USA Republican & UK Labour both passed measures to reduce welfare spending for sick and disabled people 111
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Some people with mobility issues or who are wheelchair users need to be rewarded too... perhaps reward swimming or other exercises otherwise the scheme is ableist. Make healthy food cheaper. Then people will have a choice of what to buy and eat. #Carer #OT_Carer #OTs&Carers 110
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 01/07/2025This is very concerning, as it will encourage people to gamble and perhaps lose their own and indeed other's money and leaves people vulnerable to economic coercive control .. would have been better to tax everyone an extra 1% for 2 yrs as a covid recovery measure... No. 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Welcome to my world .. add in threats of benefit withdrawal... 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 29/06/2025www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Where multiple protected characteristics intersect and are combined with deprivation it is not surprising that ill health results. #Carers have a tough time extra stress, list earnings/pension & fear of lost benefits...theguardian.comBritain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts sayExclusive: Health service estimated to be spending £50bn a year on effects of deprivation and child poverty 020
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 28/06/2025 #Tescos have introduced self service conveyor belt tills where staff used to be. so need to pick items off shelf, load trolley, unload onto conveyer belt, place on scales,pay, pack bags place in trolley take out of trolley, into car out of car in house & fridge etc. Im wiped out. #Arthritis 110
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 28/06/2025It seems as if people will be 'supported' into voluntary work... I wonder if they will be sanctioned if they don't do it? What conditions are over medicalised? #OT_Carer BBC News - Plans to help benefits recipients into work 'a mess', say DWP officials www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comGovernment jobs support plans 'a mess', DWP officials tell BBCPlans to help those affected by benefits cuts into work are not "properly considered", officials tell the BBC. 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 28/06/2025many carers are expected to do more than what one person should have to do: paid employment, home maintenance and sandwich caring for elders & children, which limits opportunities for leisure and social activities... #Carer 010
Reposted by OT_CarersUniteCarers UK @carers-uk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025It is vital that we use carers' voices to campaign for change. We hugely appreciate anyone who can fill in our State of Caring survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/QNPDKV2?utm_… 023
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 26/06/2025www.bigissue.com/news/social-... I hope the bill is blocked. There are very limited pathways to lift people out of poverty once caring ends. Imagine existing for yrs without breaks, subsequent exhaustion, sickness & disability; increased bills when caring ends, no suitable flexible/ apprenticeshipsbigissue.comCould the government's disability benefit cuts be blocked by Labour MPs?More than 100 Labour MPs have backed an amendment calling for the disability benefit cuts to be blocked. Here's what it means. 120
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Following a death, how much support do you give to the bereaved? Social isolation is real. I've not spoken to or heard from any one today. Ive had a few texts but these are inherently different from speech. Im so tired.too.He ho. 100
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 08/06/2025It's carers week next week. Remember to #CareForTheCarer The focus is on #Equality 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Surely this shows that carers and disabled people they care for are extremely vulnerable to proposed changes in PIP. #Poverty #Inequality #Carer questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...questions-statements.parliament.ukWritten questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK ParliamentInformation from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports. 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 03/06/20251.CARERS WEEK 2025 9th-15thJune Focus on Equality #Carers experience #Inequality #Social_Isolation #Poverty Poor #MentalHealth Poor #PhysicalHealth What will you do to promote equality ??? @CarersUK @theRCOT #OT #OccupationalTherapy #UnpaidCarer 100
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 12/02/2025www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comUnpaid carer wins overpayment penalty case against DWPAndrea Tucker has overturned the demand for £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments for alleged breaches in benefit rules 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025BBC News - Hospital funding announcement next week, BBC told www.bbc.com/news/article... This hosputal was also among the first to become an NHS Trust. The building was targeted in WW2 due to its colour and has needed updating for many years. #BBC #OTs&Carersbbc.comHospital funding announcement next week, BBC understandsA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government planned to rebuild the NHS. 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 16/01/2025This is worth reading. How can people on benefits afford good food? Those who are able can grow their own but.... oats, rice pears, strawberries among the most affected by pesticides, herbicides, arsenic @jceoltasmith.bsky.social #Disability #Carer #OT_Carer youtu.be/E4nJ07_02NQ?...youtu.beThe truth about organic food - according to science | Tim SpectorYouTube video by ZOE 011
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 10/01/2025www.specialneedsjungle.com/sen-resource... #ParentCarer #OT_Carer #Disability #SENDspecialneedsjungle.comSEN Resource Bases and Unit Provision in Secondary—what are they and do they count as inclusion? - Special Needs JungleNancy Gedge, who manages a mainstream secondary resource base, explains what they are and how to ensure they're inclusive 031
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Carers alliwance and carers credit. ...what us not said ...is that carers who become disabled themselves cannot get carers credit and LCWRA... carers often become ill due to a lack of respite and poverty 011
Reposted by OT_CarersUniteCarers Scotland @carersscotland.bsky.social · 09/01/2025We have a new factsheet about Carers Support Payment, the new financial benefit which has replaced Carer's Allowance in Scotland. Find out more and download the factsheet here: buff.ly/41zj8eK 012
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 09/01/2025www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... #Disability #OT_Carers #Carersthecanary.coDWP complaints up 38%, with Universal Credit causing chaos for countless familiesOne DWP complaint revealed that it told a dying claimant that they owed it £89,000 - when they didn't actually owe anything at all 021
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 04/01/2025BBC News - Rob Burrow's widow highlights 'amazing' carers www.bbc.com/news/article... #Carer #OT_Carer #DisabledCarer #Disabled I've been failed by the local authority both as a carer and disabled person. #Isolation #Poverty #Exhaustion #Illnessbbc.comRob Burrow's widow highlights 'amazing' job of carersLindsey Burrow says the country "would not cope" without the work done by unpaid carers. 021
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Perhaps they could survey the impact of the process of claiming benefits on people's health and have a public review. They could look at overlapping factors such as deprivation, mental health, caring etc. 100
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 31/12/20241.This is worth reading if you are an #OT or and #Carer. I have had a horrendous year and #DWP have not helped @jceoltasmith.bsky.social @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...thecanary.coDWP strips severely chronically ill mother and disabled son of £8k a year in Universal Credit migrationSham DWP managed migration to Universal Credit has stripped a disabled mother and her disabled son of benefits as winter bites 101
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Sometimes being a #Carer is an incredibly lonely experience. Feeling the isolation today... 120
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 26/12/2024BBC News - Thatchers Cider to give away trees to community groups - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThatchers Cider to give away trees to community groupsSomerset-based Thatchers is looking for 50 groups that would benefit from having their own orchard. 000
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 24/12/2024www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Welcome to my world. I wonder how many 51-60 ur d women in the study were carers. It's time that epidemiologists & public health officials counted #Carers in data collection #LongCovid #Arthritis #Disability @jceoltasmith.bsky.socialsciencedirect.comIncreased incidence of rheumatoid arthritis after COVID-19An increase in the incidence of inflammatory arthritis after COVID-19 has been reported. Since many diseases exhibit population-specific causal effect… 054
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 17/12/2024This should be interesting where children have been home educated as schools fail to meet needs. Where will the children be placed if they are not at home ? 100
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 16/12/2024This year's Christmas lectures look good #OTs&Carers www.rigb.org/christmas-le...rigb.orgThe 2024 CHRISTMAS LECTURESDr Chris van Tulleken reveals the revolutionary science inside our bodies when we eat. 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 15/12/2024If all homes were built to an accessible standard, then it would be easier for people to stay in their homes when #disabled. Wheelchair accessible homes would be even better. #OTs&CarersUnite BBC News - Major cities plan zero wheelchair-accessible homes www.bbc.com/news/uk-6263...bbc.comRevealed: Major cities failing to plan for any wheelchair accessible homesDisabled people face a severe housing shortage as English cities fail to plan for accessibility. 072
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 13/12/20241. Do look at the parliamentary questions on #Disability #Benefits #Caring This one is on PIP &the green paper on employment & #DWP will involve Disabled people in the process. #OT_Carer #OTs&Carers questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...questions-statements.parliament.ukWritten questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK ParliamentInformation from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports. 020
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 13/12/2024www.specialneedsjungle.com/55-rise-2024... Only families are harmed by LAs breaking the law. The resume it causes is devastating. #OT_Carer #OTs&Carers #Disability #SEND #ParentCarerspecialneedsjungle.com55% rise in 2024 SEND Tribunal appeals. LAs’ 1.3% success rate cost £153m. The cost to families? Incalculable - Special Needs JungleA 55% rise in 2024 SEND Tribunal appeals. LAs’ 1.3% success rate cost £153m. The cost to families? Incalculable. Read our analysis 010
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I have deregistered as an OT on health grounds. I have changed the title to OTs&CarersUnite but will be posting as a carer. 140
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This might be of interest to the scientists among us bsky.app/profile/egub... Cursor down for #carers related detailsbsky.app 100
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 12/12/2024#Carer #OT_Carer www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.co600 unpaid carers prosecuted due to DWP failingsIt is unconscionable that the DWP has punished carers for its own catalogue of errors and needlessly complex rules. But, here we are. 010
Reposted by OT_CarersUniteTrish Wheatley @trishwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Looking to attract more disabled applicants to your roles? Check out our new guide to accessible recruitment disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...disabilityarts.onlineA Guide to Accessible Recruitment and Employment - Disability Arts OnlineIn this Resource Introduction A Guide to Accessible Recruitment DASH's 5 Top Tips For Accessible Recruitment Bonus Section: Accessible Employment What Next? Links to Relevant Resources Introduction Au... 022
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 12/12/2024 1. A thread. Pl Share. #Motability #PIP #DLA #Poverty #Disability #OT_Carers #Carers Please read and act fast if you need a motability vehicle. The £750 towards an advance payment will be scrapped in jan. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...birminghammail.co.ukPIP and DLA claimants warned £750 payment will be scrapped at start of 2025The huge change comes into effect in January 101
Reposted by OT_CarersUniteAnnabel Fenn @ndglimmers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024If you are an occupational therapist who wants to deepen your understanding of neuro-affirming practice AND walk your dog at the same time, I highly recommend the Two Sides of the Spectrum podcast by Learn, Play, Thrive learnplaythrive.com/podcast/learnplaythrive.comPodcast - Two Sides of the SpectrumA twice-monthly podcast where we explore research, amplify autistic voices, and change the way we think about autism in life and in professional therapy practice. 0115
OT_CarersUnite @otcarersunite.bsky.social · 11/12/2024BBC News - Can you solve the GCHQ Christmas challenge? www.bbc.com/news/article... This looks fun #Carerbbc.comGCHQ Christmas challenge: Can you solve the puzzle?The spy agency has released its notoriously tricky annual Christmas puzzle. 010