Here is the latest carer and mental health news for the month of May 2024 by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie.

May 2024 Carer and Mental Health news <- Read more news items here.

For the May edition on unpaid caring and mental health we have the following news items.

Carer Videos

1. Carer Coaching Service Video – Carers Support West Sussex
2. Carers UK – Step fitness session
3. Solihull Carers – – Dementia Awareness Week – Carers Talk Episode 7
4. Kate Garraway Questions Why Ministers Ignored Warnings on Unpaid Carers
5. ‘I feel completely ignored’: the human impact of respite care costs – Channel 4 News
6. Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 – Mental Health Support at Dundee Carers Centre

Latest Carer News

1. What is Carers Week? 
2. East London NHS Trust – City and Hackney Family, Friends and Carers Hub Officially Opens
3. Ten years of the Care Act 2014: ‘the right legislation, undermined by a lack of funding’
4. The British Psychological Society – Trauma and parent carers
5. We need to break taboo around death, end-of-life carer says
6. Calls for new Carers Strategy
7. DWP told to ‘urgently’ improve after carers left owing thousands of pounds
8. Occupations And Interruptions: A Poetry Workshop For Carers
9. Caring for the carers!
10. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust – Carers Week 10 – 16 June – Putting carers on the map
11. Richmond council – Carers Week 2024: Putting Carers on the Map
12. CareFest event for OAPs, disabled and unpaid carers coming to Bishop’s Stortford Library
13. The need for a new National Carers Strategy 
14. General Election 2024 – It Shouldn’t Cost To Care – Carers Trust 
15. NHS Constitution: 10 year review
16. Caring for People with Psychosis and Schizophrenia 

Ethnic carer and minority news updates

1. Black Mental Health Workers Alliance Launches Manifesto to Tackle Mental Health Disparities
2. Facts and figures about racism and mental health
3. Carers UK  good practice briefing for supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers
   Advancing mental health equalities – PCREF
4. ‘Stark disparities’: why black mothers are more at risk of perinatal mental illness in England
5. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care: Findings from the KFF Survey of Racism, Discrimination and Health