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New EU Anti-Poverty Strategy: informal carers must be protected from poverty
Eurocarers welcomes the new package of initiatives launched by the European Commission the week of…
New resource: Minimum Support Standards for Young Carers and Child Participation
Eurocarers is pleased to share a key output from the OUR VOICES project: Minimum Support…
Ireland’s Family Carer Scorecard 2025
Family Carers Ireland has published the Family Carer Scorecard 2025. The scorecard is the fourth…
Introducing the international Young Carers Inspiration Database: Share Your Work, Strengthen Recognition Globally
Recognition of young carers varies enormously across the world. Some countries have years of awareness-raising…
The Eurocarers’ Policy Working Group met in Bilbao
On Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th April, the Eurocarers’ Policy Working Group convened in Bilbao,…
Mental Health Week 2026: join the WELL CARE online seminar on 8 May!
Caring for someone can be mentally draining and exhausting. Both informal carers -who provide unpaid…
WHO online course to support informal carers now available in multiple languages
Eurocarers is pleased to highlight a new online training course developed by the World Health…
Making Carer’s Allowance and Carer’s Benefit exempt from income tax in Ireland
A new position paper from Care Alliance Ireland calls on the Irish government to make…
EUROCARERS is the European network representing informal carers and their organisations, irrespective of their age or the particular health and care need of the person they are caring for.
Our aim is to advance the issue of informal care at both national and EU levels by:
- RAISING AWARENESS OF THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION MADE BY CARERS to health and social care systems and the economy as a whole, and of the need to safeguard this contribution;
- ENSURING THAT EU AND NATIONAL POLICIES TAKE ACCOUNT OF CARERS, i.e. promote social inclusion of carers, the development of support services for carers, enable them to remain active in paid employment and maintain a social life.
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