Senedd Members back calls for unpaid carers bill

Senedd members backed calls for a bill to ensure better support for more than 310,000 unpaid carers across Wales. Sioned Williams told the Senedd that unpaid carers save the Welsh Government more than £10bn every year as she criticised “significant failings” in terms of support. She said only between 0.3 per cent and 8 per cent of carers who need a carer’s rights assessment received one despite a legal right under the Social Services and Wellbeing Act 2014.