@richardmeade13.bsky.social
Director of Devolved Nations for Carers UK. Love family, running and paleoanthropology in my spare time!
Carers Scotland Director, @richardmeade13.bsky.social, appeared on The Sunday Show on BBC Scotland yesterday as part of the discussion on the welfare reforms being proposed by the Westminster Government.
Catch up with the conversation here (segment starts at 1:12:30)- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Carers Scotland were at the Scotland Demands Better launch in Edinburgh yesterday, demanding better for the people of Scotland.
Join the march for all of us.
Edinburgh - 25 October 2025.
Find out more: scotland-demands-better.com
#WedemandBetter
The 2025 State of Caring Survey is now live!
We want to hear from as many carers as possible to paint a picture of caring in 2025. Your responses help shape our future policy and campaigning work - take our survey and tell us what needs to be done.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/QN67HSN
Some additional photos from the #CarersWeek photocall at the Scottish Parliament yesterday.
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The Carers UK Awards are now open!
Celebrate the contribution of a person, group or workplace that has made a difference for carers by submitting a nomination today!
Find out more here: www.carersuk.org/about-us/60-...
To mark Carers UK's 60th Anniversary in Scotland, we are using our platform to share the stories of carers.
In her piece, "Identity Crisis- from Career to Carer" Alison talks about her feelings toward giving up paid work to care.
Read her full written article here: www.carersuk.org/news/60th-an...
Carers Scotland and Carer Positive invite you to our Pre-Carers Week 2025 online session on Thu 1 May from 14.00-15.30 where you can find out more about this year’s theme, Caring About Equality.
Book your free place now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carer-posi...
Join us to mark the 60th Anniversary of Carers UK with the Mary Webster Lecture.
The lecture will be given by Professor Angela O'Hagan, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission on the topic "Equality: today and tomorrow".
Find out more and book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mary-webst...
Huge congratulations to Carers UK Chair, Nick Baird, and his team of walkers who took part in the Glasgow Kiltwalk yesterday.
Their enthusiasm was certainly not dampened by the wet weather as they set off from Clydebank at 8.30am, arriving in Balloch around 2pm.
#kiltwalk2025
We provided a briefing to members of the Scottish Parliament on proposed UK Government Welfare Reforms, which was discussed yesterday.
You read our briefing in full here: www.carersuk.org/media/14wpnu...
@sa4dunfermline.bsky.social
Carers Scotland Employment Conference 2025
This is an essential event for employers and organisations who want to build support for carers in the workplace.
Wed 14 May 2025 9.30 - 16.00 COSLA Conference Centre, Edinburgh
Book your place now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carers-and...
The #Curae was created by @bookwormvaught.bsky.social to give full time carers creative writing opportunities. Take a look 🙏
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Join us on Tuesday 13th May at Edinburgh City Chambers to mark the 60th Anniversary of Carers UK with the Mary Webster Lecture in Scotland.
Find out all about the event and book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mary-webst...
Really enjoyed this book. Great to hear the story of human evolution and its expansion across the world told through our DNA. Lots of insight I’ve not read before and some important lessons in there for today and tomorrow. #paeloanthropology #humanevolution
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Tens of thousands of people will be hit by “knock-on impact” of PIP cuts. Unpaid carers face losing carer’s allowance if their family member loses eligibility for disability benefits - a devastating double loss
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Exciting new find from Atapuerca!
Here is the write up in Science, with commentary from former Tübingen fellow Mirjana Roksandic and myself.
We are delighted to welcome so many carers to our health and wellbeing themed #CarersScotlandSummit at Glasgow City Chambers this morning. We hope all attendees have an enjoyable and valuable day.
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59% of unpaid carers said that support services were not there when they needed them.
Find out more in out new report 'State of Caring in Scotland - Health and social care support for unpaid carers': www.carersuk.org/media/j1bnyk...
Could Australopithecus afarensis outrun a predator? New research suggests they were slow, inefficient runners—challenging ideas about early human hunting and survival. #HumanEvolution #Australopithecus #Paleoanthropology #RunningScience
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Testing the Out of Africa model in East Eurasian genomic origins phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg_com
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Growing Up is a free programme of support aimed at empowering unpaid carers of autistic young people going through big life changes.
The programme consists of 4 workshops for unpaid carers. We have remaining spaces for upcoming sessions.
More info & sign up here:
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
We launch our new research report today - 'State of Caring in Scotland 2024: Paid work and access to employment for unpaid carers'.
This is the first report based on the 2024 State of Caring survey. Read it in full here: www.carersuk.org/media/a3rg42...
Our new report on carers accessing and staying in employment was discussed on Good Morning Scotland today.
Catch up on the show here (section begins at 1:54:51) - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Last Neanderthals 🏺🧪
Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals and continues the Ice Age mini-series with Professor Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social from the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Can there be any meaningful reform of the NHS in Scotland without properly addressing social care? Join us online on Monday 17th March when @drdmacaskill.bsky.social will be in conversation with our director @chrisdeerin.bsky.social. Full info and to sign up - www.reformscotland.com/event/the-fu...
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Social care is social justice. My weekly blog argues that how we value and resource #socialcare is a mark of #socialjustice in #Scotland. #SocialJusticeDay #equality #fairness #care
scottishcare.org/social-care-...
Today we launched a new report exploring how a Minimum Income Guarantee could be piloted for unpaid carers in Scotland.
If this progresses, it could be transformational for many carers in Scotland.
Read and download the full report here: www.carersuk.org/media/4gkfv3...
A study of ancient DNA from people who lived in Europe between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 per cent of them had dark skin and 8 per cent had pale skin, with the rest somewhere in between.
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Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals with Chris Stringer.They explore how Neanderthals thrived across diverse climates & investigate the intriguing story of Neanderthals' eventual decline alongside the arrival of Homosapiens 60,000 years ago podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Article by Dr Helen Salisbury. Excerpt here: Last week the Public Accounts Committee produced an excoriating report on the financial sustainability of the NHS in England.1 It criticised the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for their complacency, lack of ideas, failures in financial planning, and wildly optimistic assumptions about productivity. The stated ambition of these bodies is to improve the nation’s health through three major shifts: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from treatment to prevention—but how these changes will happen has yet to be elaborated. The shift from treatment to prevention is arguably hampered by the DHSC’s view that providing more resources for prevention is “not a substantive part of the solution.” This is partly right, in that issues such as obesity, inactivity, and poor air quality lie outside the remit of health and require action from other government departments. But money is needed, and this year’s 5% reduction in the public health grant used by local authorities to run services that are directly concerned with preventing ill health (including health visiting and drug and alcohol services) is a concrete example of the mismatch between the ambition to improve prevention and the reality experienced by patients and staff in those services. The DHSC also offers the helpful suggestion that “there is a role for GPs to advise patients” about lifestyle—perhaps being unaware that we already do this, all day, every day, in between treating heart failure, diagnosing cancers, and reassuring the worried well. It’s also worth noting that getting GPs to offer advice on exercise has been shown not to be an effective use of our time.
From this month’s @bmj.com, an astute piece by @helensalisbury.bsky.social on how the government (in this case in England, but applicable elsewhere too) needs to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to preventing ill health.
Link here:
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
